This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Collection consists of Schilt's correspondence as chairperson of Columbia's department of astronomy and director of the Yale-Columbia Southern Station as well as the Rutherford Observatory at Columbia. The majority of arranged office files are comprised of memoranda, documents, some departmental correspondence, committee reports, course material including material for student laboratory exercises. Thers is also a small sampling of Schilt's early notes as a student and reports of oo-site testing done under the auspices of the National Science Foundation.
This collection is arranged into 5 series.
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Jan Schilt papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Transfer from department of Physics, 1989.
Source of acquisition--astronomy department. Method of acquisition--gift; Date of acquisition--02/23/89. Accession number--M-89-2-23.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
processed JSM 10/23/92.
2010-03-05 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Astronomer and administrator. Schilt was Rutherford Professor Emeritus at Columbia, invented the Schilt photometer, and helped clarify the motions of stars in the Milky Way. He was director of the Yale-Columbia Southern Station in Johannesburg and Canberra, Australia. He served as chairperson of Columbia's department of astronomy from 1936 until 1962.
Box 01 Folder 1-4
1930s
Box 10 Folder 1
Box 02 Folder 1
Box 03 Folder 1
Box 03 Folder 2
Box 03 Folder 3
Box 03 Folder 4
Box 03 Folder 5
Box 05 Folder 6
Box 03 Folder 7
Box 03 Folder 8
Box 04 Folder 1
Box 04 Folder 2
Box 04 Folder 3
Box 04 Folder 4
Box 04 Folder 5
Box 04 Folder 6
Box 04 Folder 7
Box 04 Folder 8
Box 04 Folder 11
Box 04 Folder 9
Box 04 Folder 10
Box 04 Folder 12
Box 04 Folder 10
Box 05 Folder 1
Box 05 Folder 2
Box 05 Folder 3
Box 05 Folder 4
Box 05 Folder 5
Box 05 Folder 6
Box 05 Folder 7
Box 05 Folder 8
Box 05 Folder 9
Box 05 Folder 10
Box 05 Folder 11
Box 05 Folder 12
Box 05 Folder 13
Box 05 Folder 14
Box 05 Folder 15
Box 05 Folder 16
Box 05 Folder 17
Box 05 Folder 18
Box 05 Folder 19
Box 05 Folder 20
Box 05 Folder 21
Box 06 Folder 1
Box 06 Folder 2
Box 06 Folder 3
Box 06 Folder 4
Box 06 Folder 5
Box 06 Folder 6
Box 06 Folder 7
Box 06 Folder 8
Box 06 Folder 9
Box 06 Folder 10
Box 06 Folder 11
Box 06 Folder 12
Box 06 Folder 13
Box 06 Folder 14
Box 07 Folder 1
Box 07 Folder 2
Box 07 Folder 3
Box 07 Folder 4
Box 07 Folder 5
Box 07 Folder 6
Box 07 Folder 7
Box 07 Folder 8
Box 07 Folder 9
Box 07 Folder 10
Box 07 Folder 11
Box 08 Folder 1
Box 08 Folder 2
Box 08 Folder 3
Box 08 Folder 4
Box 08 Folder 5
Box 08 Folder 6
Box 08 Folder 7
Box 08 Folder 8
Box 08 Folder 9
Box 08 Folder 10
Box 08 Folder 11
Box 10 Folder 2
Box 10 Folder 3
Box 10 Folder 4
Box 10 Folder 5
Box 10 Folder 6
Box 10 Folder 7
Box 10 Folder 8
Box 10 Folder 9
Box 10 Folder 10
Box 10 Folder 11
Box 10 Folder 12
Box 11 Folder 1
Box 11 Folder 2
Box 11 Folder 3
Box 11 Folder 4
Box 11 Folder 5
Box 11 Folder 6
Box 11 Folder 7
Box 09 Folder 1
Box 09 Folder 2
Box 12 Folder 1
Box 14 Folder 1
Box 21 Folder 1
Box 25
Box 26 Folder 1
Box 12 Folder 2
Box 12 Folder 3
Box 12 Folder 4
Box 12 Folder 5
Box 13 Folder 1
Box 13 Folder 2
Box 13 Folder 3
Box 13 Folder 4
Box 13 Folder 5
Box 13 Folder 6
Box 13 Folder 7
Box 13 Folder 8
Box 13 Folder 9
Box 13 Folder 10
Box 13 Folder 11
Box 13 Folder 12
Box 13 Folder 13
Box 13 Folder 14
Box 14 Folder 2
Box 14 Folder 3
Box 14 Folder 4
Box 14 Folder 5
Box 14 Folder 6
Box 14 Folder 7
Box 14 Folder 8
Box 14 Folder 9
Box 14
Box 15 Folder 1
Box 15 Folder 2
Box 15 Folder 3
Box 15 Folder 4
Box 15 Folder 5
Box 15 Folder 6
Box 15 Folder 7
Box 15 Folder 8
Box 15 Folder 9
Box 15 Folder 10
Box 15 Folder 11
Box 15 Folder 12
Box 16 Folder 1
Box 16 Folder 2
[Schilt's correspondence]
Box 16 Folder 3
Box 16 Folder 4
[Correspondence]
Box 16 Folder 5
[Correspondence]
Box 16 Folder 6
Box 16 Folder 7
Box 16 Folder 8
Box 16 Folder 9
Box 16 Folder 10
Box 17 Folder 1
[Research calculations]
Box 17 Folder 2
Box 17 Folder 3
[Research calculations]
Box 17 Folder 4
[Research calculations]
Box 17 Folder 5
[Research calculations]
Box 17 Folder 6
Box 17 Folder 7
Box 18 Folder 1
Box 18 Folder 2
Box 18 Folder 3
Box 18 Folder 4
Box 18 Folder 5
Box 18 Folder 6
Box 18 Folder 7
Box 18 Folder 8
Box 18 Folder 9
Box 18 Folder 10
Box 18 Folder 11
Box 18 Folder 12
Box 18 Folder 13
Box 18 Folder 14
Box 18 Folder 15
Box 18 Folder 16
Box 18 Folder 17
Box 18
Box 19 Folder 1
Box 19 Folder 2
Box 19 Folder 3
Box 19 Folder 4
Box 19 Folder 5
Box 19 Folder 6
Box 19 Folder 7
Box 19 Folder 8
Box 19 Folder 9
Box 19 Folder 10
Box 20 Folder 1
Box 20 Folder 2
Box 20 Folder 3
Box 20 Folder 4
Box 20 Folder 5
Box 20 Folder 6
Box 20 Folder 7
Box 20 Folder 8
Box 20 Folder 9
Box 21 Folder 2
[Research calculations]
Box 21 Folder 3
[Research Calculations]
Box 21 Folder 4
[Research Calculations]
Box 21 Folder 5
Box 21 Folder 6
[Research Calculations]
Box 21 Folder 7-18
Box 21 Folder 19
Box 21 Folder 20
[Research Calculations]
Box 21 Folder 21
[Research calculations]
Box 22 Folder 1
[Research calculations]
Box 22 Folder 2
[Research calculations]
Box 22 Folder 3
[Research calculations]
Box 22 Folder 4
Box 22 Folder 5
Box 22 Folder 6
[Memos and drafts of letters]
Box 23 Folder 1
Box 23 Folder 2
Box 23 Folder 3
[Research calculations]
Box 23 Folder 4
[Research calculations]
Box 23 Folder 5
[Research calculations]
Box 23 Folder 6
[Research calculations]
Box 23 Folder 7
[Research calculations]
Box 23 Folder 8
[Research calculations]
Box 23 Folder 9-18
Box 24 Folder 1-3
Box 24 Folder 4
Box 24 Folder 5
Box 24 Folder 6
Box 24 Folder 7-8
Box 26 Folder 2
Box 26 Folder 3
Box 26 Folder 4
Box 26 Folder 4
Box 26 Folder 6
Box 26 Folder 7
Box 26 Folder 8
Box 27 Folder 1
Box 27 Folder 2
Box 27 Folder 3
Box 27 Folder 4
Box 27 Folder 5
Box 27 Folder 6
Box 27 Folder 7
Box 27 Folder 8
Box 27 Folder 7
Box 27 Folder 10
Box 27 Folder 11
Box 27 Folder 12
Box 27 Folder 13
Box 27 Folder 14
Box 27 Folder 15
[Photographs included]