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Collection Ref: EAP1190/1

Boyden Observatory - named for the American engineer Uriah A. Boyden (1804-1879) - was established as a southern station of the Astronomical…

Collection Ref: EAP1190/1/5

A collection of mounted images most probably used to illustrate lectures and to disseminate news. The slides are a mix of original material from…

Collection Ref: EAP1190/1/2

A set of hard-cover note books used to record the progress of research programmes carried out on a certain telescope. During this period of Boyden’…

Collection Ref: EAP1190/1/6

The majority of the material dates from the 1930s, and the 1950s. 2 images were taken in the 1970s and 1 in 1994. Several of the prints are from…

Collection Ref: EAP1190/1/7

255 photographic glass plate negatives (gelatin dry plates), stored in 23 original plate boxes, haphazardly arranged. All appear to be original…

Collection Ref: EAP1190/1/3

This series consists of daily records of weather conditions as recorded at Boyden Observatory, from 1947 to 1979. Note that two earlier volumes of…

File Ref: EAP1190/1/5/2

A collection of slides showing telescopes, observatories, astronomers, and astronomical objects. Several images illustrate the history of Harvard…

File Ref: EAP1190/1/6/11

People (group photo, and a portrait of Alexander William Roberts), early site construction (3 steam wagons carting crates to the Observatory site…

File Ref: EAP1190/1/6/7

Images of telescopes (ADH, the 60-inch with photometer, and the coelostat), buildings (several aerial views, the construction of the aluminising…

File Ref: EAP1190/1/6/9

Scenes from Arequipa, steam wagons carting the 60-inch telescope parts (1930 June), the 60-inch observer gallery being unloaded (1930s),…