Jan Schilt papers, 1931-1963

Jan Schilt papers, 1931-1963

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1127
Bib ID:
4079816 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Schilt, Jan, 1894-1982
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
23.5 linear feet (27 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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Description

Summary

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.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into 5 series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

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.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

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.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Jan Schilt papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Ownership and Custodial History

Transfer from department of Physics, 1989.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--astronomy department. Method of acquisition--gift; Date of acquisition--02/23/89. Accession number--M-89-2-23.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

processed JSM 10/23/92.

Revision Description

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.

Biographical / Historical

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.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Documents
Exercises
Memorandums
Notes (documents)
Office files
Reports
Name
Columbia University. Department of Astronomy
Columbia University. Rutherfurd Observatory
Subject
Astrometry
Astronomers
Astronomical observatories
Astronomical observatories -- Administration
Astronomy
Astrophysics
College administrators
Photometry

Series I: Arranged Correspondence


Subseries I.1: Chronological


Box 01 Folder 1-4

1930s


Box 10 Folder 1

Secretarial Miscellaneous, before 1963


Box 02 Folder 1

1930s


Subseries I.2: Subject


Box 03 Folder 1

University Executive Council, 1942-1945


Box 03 Folder 2

University Office of Admissions, 1941-1955


Box 03 Folder 3

University-Public Ceremonies, 1943-1957


Box 03 Folder 4

Watson Laboratory, IBM Machine, 1940-1955


Box 03 Folder 5

Yale-Columbia Southern Station, 1951-1956


Box 05 Folder 6

George Pegram, 1940-1949


Box 03 Folder 7

Yale University Observatory, 1953-1962


Box 03 Folder 8

Yale-Columbia Southern Station, 1945-1951


Box 04 Folder 1

Stromgren, 1957-1958


Box 04 Folder 2

N.Y. Academy of Science, 1940-1945


Box 04 Folder 3

Office of Naval Research (ONR)


Box 04 Folder 4

Oort, J.H., 1941-1960


Box 04 Folder 5

Neighbor's Society, 1937-1956


Box 04 Folder 6

Netherlands Book Committee, 1946


Box 04 Folder 7

Netherlands Information Bureau, 1941-1947


Box 04 Folder 8

Netherlands Study Group, 1945


Box 04 Folder 11

Netherlands University League, 1942-1950


Box 04 Folder 9

National Science Foundation (N.S.F.), 1953-1959


Box 04 Folder 10

A Punched Card Catalogue of Data for the Stars in the Boss General Catalogue


Box 04 Folder 12

Mailing list, 1961-1962


Box 04 Folder 10

Netherlands Information Bureau, 1941-1947


Box 05 Folder 1

Struve, Yerkes Observatory, 1934-1958


Box 05 Folder 2

Observatory Uccle, 1931-1946


Box 05 Folder 3

Schlesinger, 1940-1941


Box 05 Folder 4

Sydney Observatory, 1953


Box 05 Folder 5

U.S. Naval Observatory, 1933-1959


Box 05 Folder 6

University of Brussels, 1946


Box 05 Folder 7

Osterhoff, P. - Holland, 1934-1951


Box 05 Folder 8

Polowe, David, 1942-1946


Box 05 Folder 9

Radcliffe Observatory, 1958


Box 05 Folder 10

Reuyl, D., 1942-1943


Box 05 Folder 11

Rosseland, 1945-1947


Box 05 Folder 12

Royal Observatory, 1946-1953


Box 05 Folder 13

Royal Observatory, South Africa, 1939-1957


Box 05 Folder 14

D.H. Sadler - Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1957-1959


Box 05 Folder 15

Schauer, Charles - Research Corporation, 1946-1949


Box 05 Folder 16

Prendergast, Kevin, 1953-1956


Box 05 Folder 17

Schwarzschild, M., 1941-1955


Box 05 Folder 18

Science Journal, 1940


Box 05 Folder 19

Shapley, Harlow, 1940-1957


Box 05 Folder 20

Sky and Telescope (Federer), 1942-1947


Box 05 Folder 21

Sproul Observatory - Swarthmore College, 1944-1956


Box 06 Folder 1

Dearborn Observatory - Northwestern University, 1940-1954


Box 06 Folder 2

de Vaucouleurs, G., 1953-1957


Box 06 Folder 3

Dunham, Theo, 1953-1954


Box 06 Folder 4

Eastman Kodak Co., 1941-1955


Box 06 Folder 5

Eckert, W., 1940-1957


Box 06 Folder 6

Eichner, L.C., 1946-1960


Box 06 Folder 7

Fulbright, J. - Australia, 1950-1959


Box 06 Folder 8

Geology Dept. - Columbia College, 1950-1953


Box 06 Folder 9

Guggenheim Foundation, 1959-1962


Box 06 Folder 10

Harvard College Observatory, 1939-1956


Box 06 Folder 11

Higgins Fund, 1954-1957


Box 06 Folder 12

Hill, Sarah J., 1947-1958


Box 06 Folder 13

Hill, Sarah - Makemson, Maud, 1934-1952


Box 06 Folder 14

International Astronomical Union (I.A.U.), 1950-1959


Box 07 Folder 1

Bok, Bart J., 1940-1957


Box 07 Folder 2

Brouwer, Dirk, 1955-1962


Box 07 Folder 3

Brouwer, Dirk, 1948-1955


Box 07 Folder 4

Astrophysical Journal, 1932-1949


Box 07 Folder 5

Barnard, 1942-1949


Box 07 Folder 6

Blaauw, Adrian, 1940-1958


Box 07 Folder 7

Bosscha Observatory, Hins, C.H., 1934-1946


Box 07 Folder 8

Bullen, K.E., 1953-1956


Box 07 Folder 9

Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., 1934-1960


Box 07 Folder 10

Cincinnati Observatory (Herget, P.), 1935-1959


Box 07 Folder 11

Curtiss-Wright Corporation, 1942-1943


Box 08 Folder 1

Miscellaneous, 1950-1958


Box 08 Folder 2

Miscellaneous, 1950-1951


Box 08 Folder 3

Menzel, Harvard Observatory, 1946-1954


Box 08 Folder 4

Johannesburg, South Africa, 1947-1957


Box 08 Folder 5

Johannesburg, South Africa - Photographic plates, 1947-1949


Box 08 Folder 6

Johannesburg, South African Embassy, 1949


Box 08 Folder 7

Mt. Stromlo, Canberra, Australia, 1949-1955


Box 08 Folder 8

Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories, 1931-1959


Box 08 Folder 9

Miscellaneous, 1934-1947


Box 08 Folder 10

Princeton, 1940-1951


Box 08 Folder 11

Miscellaneous, various dates


Box 10 Folder 2

Star Tables, 1942-1950


Box 10 Folder 3

University Notices, before 1963


Box 10 Folder 4

Teaching Assistant Records, 1963-1965


Box 10 Folder 5

Van de Kamp, 1940-1943


Box 10 Folder 6

Wachmann, A. - Visiting professor, 1959-1961


Box 10 Folder 7

Warner and Swasey Observatory, 1940-1956


Box 10 Folder 8

Washburn Observatory, 1947-1948


Box 10 Folder 9

Wood, Ben, 1933-1946


Box 10 Folder 10

Yale-Columbia Southern Observatory - Jackson, Cyril, 1959-1962


Box 10 Folder 11

Yale University Observatory, 1932-1950


Box 10 Folder 12

Yerkes Observatory, 1939-1950


Box 11 Folder 1

Miscellaneous (173)


Box 11 Folder 2

Yowell, E.C., 1942-1955


Box 11 Folder 3

Science Committee, 1937-1945


Box 11 Folder 4

Secretarial Miscellaneous, Replies to Lay Inquiries, 1942-1956


Box 11 Folder 5

Argentina, Oct. 15, 1961


Box 11 Folder 6

Brouwer, Dirk, 1935-1945


Box 11 Folder 7

Brouwer, Dirk, 1945-1947


Box 09 Folder 1

Miscellaneous, 1950-1959


Box 09 Folder 2

Miscellaneous, [v.d.]

Series II: Committees and Course Materials


Box 12 Folder 1

Budget, 1950-1958


Box 14 Folder 1

Personnel (Inactive), 1953-1956

Series III: Lab Materials


Box 21 Folder 1

Research calculations, undated

Series IV: Early Notes of Schilt


Box 25

Early School Notes of Schilt


Box 26 Folder 1

Chilean Report #2, 1959


Box 12 Folder 2

Budget, 1942-1949


Box 12 Folder 3

Columbia College, 1949-1961


Box 12 Folder 4

Columbia College, 1940-1949


Box 12 Folder 5

Faculty of Pure Science, 1940-1950


Box 13 Folder 1

E.K.A. Fund, 1950-1954


Box 13 Folder 2

Committee on Instruction Minutes, 1947-1950


Box 13 Folder 3

Committee on Instruction - Faculty of Pure Science, 1940-1952


Box 13 Folder 4

Fellowships - Committee on Instruction - Faculty of Pure Science, 1954-1958


Box 13 Folder 5

General Studies (G.S.), 1941-1957


Box 13 Folder 6

Graduate Students (Applicants), 1960-1962


Box 13 Folder 7

Graduate Students, 1947-1963


Box 13 Folder 8

Graduate Students, 1939-1961


Box 13 Folder 9

Graduate Students Records, 1943-1957


Box 13 Folder 10

Graduate Faculties, 1952-1961


Box 13 Folder 11

Hett, John, 1942


Box 13 Folder 12

Jacoby, Harold, 1932


Box 13 Folder 13

Library, 1940-1956


Box 13 Folder 14

Motz, L., 1960


Box 14 Folder 2

Phi Beta Kappa, 1933-1955


Box 14 Folder 3

Photometry - (Glass Filter), 1946-1954


Box 14 Folder 4

Rejected Manuscripts, 1946


Box 14 Folder 5

Salary statements, 1947-1961


Box 14 Folder 6

Old Clark Telescopes, 1950-1951


Box 14 Folder 7

69 - Writings by Schilt, 1947


Box 14 Folder 8

69-Writings by Schilt, 1939-1941


Box 14 Folder 9

56-Writings by Schilt, 1950


Box 14

Notes; Research Materials, 1950s & 1960s


Box 15 Folder 1

Photometer Paper, 1947


Box 15 Folder 2

Distribution of Stars According to Apparent Magnitudes & Galatic Latitude and the Scale of the Polar Sequence by Jan Schilt, circa 1946


Box 15 Folder 3

Sodium Line Intensities as Criterion for Stellar Distances by Jan Schilt, 1947


Box 15 Folder 4

Virginia Conference Remarks - Ms. & Correspondence, 1957


Box 15 Folder 5

The Astronomical Journal, 1940-1958


Box 15 Folder 6

Sub-Committee for Inter-American Astronomy, 1959-1962


Box 15 Folder 7

American Astronomical Society (AAS), 1941-1962


Box 15 Folder 8

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1928-1949


Box 15 Folder 9

The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO), 1954


Box 15 Folder 10

Allegheny Observatory, 1941-1955


Box 15 Folder 11

American Astronomical Society, 1950-1960


Box 15 Folder 12

Askania-Werks, 1950-1951


Box 16 Folder 1

Kapetyn Astronomical Lab, 1947-1957


Box 16 Folder 2

Leander McCormick Observatory - University of Virginia, 1940-1958

[Schilt's correspondence]


Box 16 Folder 3

Lick Observatory, 1940-1941


Box 16 Folder 4

Linblad, Bertil, 1934-1951

[Correspondence]


Box 16 Folder 5

Luyten, W.J., 1931-1948

[Correspondence]


Box 16 Folder 6

69 - Writings by Schilt, 1940s - 1950s


Box 16 Folder 7

Note on the Colors of the AoP Stars - Writing by Schilt, 1952


Box 16 Folder 8

Photoelectric Color 2036 Stars - Writing by Schilt & others, 1951


Box 16 Folder 9

69-Writings by Schilt and others, undated


Box 16 Folder 10

69-Research Materials and Notes, undated


Box 17 Folder 1

Minor Cloud "B". Plate 59312 (Blue), undated

[Research calculations]


Box 17 Folder 2

Research Calculations, undated


Box 17 Folder 3

Plate 61626 (Center-Red), undated

[Research calculations]


Box 17 Folder 4

Center Plate 61834 (Red), undated

[Research calculations]


Box 17 Folder 5

Minor Cloud "B". Summary, undated

[Research calculations]


Box 17 Folder 6

Research Calculations, undated


Box 17 Folder 7

Research Calculations, undated


Box 18 Folder 1

Research Calculations, undated


Box 18 Folder 2

Experiment 2, undated


Box 18 Folder 3

Experiment 0-4, undated


Box 18 Folder 4

GS Astronomy 1, undated


Box 18 Folder 5

Stennbs Experiments I, undated


Box 18 Folder 6

Experiments O, undated


Box 18 Folder 7

Experiment 0-5, undated


Box 18 Folder 8

Stencils; Assignments, Observing Lists, Stars & Constellations, undated


Box 18 Folder 9

Experiment I-10, undated


Box 18 Folder 10

Experiment I-1, undated


Box 18 Folder 11

Experiment I-8, undated


Box 18 Folder 12

Experiment O-2, undated


Box 18 Folder 13

Experiment O-3, undated


Box 18 Folder 14

Experiment I-8, undated


Box 18 Folder 15

Experiment I-7, undated


Box 18 Folder 16

Experiment O-10, undated


Box 18 Folder 17

Research Calculations, 1949-1950


Box 18

Miscellaneous Research Notes, undated


Box 19 Folder 1

Table 1 - The Equation of Time, undated


Box 19 Folder 2

Reading List of G.S. Ast. I, undated


Box 19 Folder 3

Problem Lists, undated


Box 19 Folder 4

Mechanics Notes, undated


Box 19 Folder 5

E.C.X. - Research Calculations, undated


Box 19 Folder 6

Astronomy 1 - Notes, undated


Box 19 Folder 7

Astronomy 115 & R55, undated


Box 19 Folder 8

Bibliography - Astronomy 116, undated+


Box 19 Folder 9

89-Research Notes, undated


Box 19 Folder 10

School of Mines - Spherical Astronomy Notes, undated


Box 20 Folder 1

Experiment I-13, undated


Box 20 Folder 2

Experiment O-9, 1946


Box 20 Folder 3

Experiment O-8, undated


Box 20 Folder 4

Experiment O-7, 1948


Box 20 Folder 5

Experiment I-11, 1949-1950


Box 20 Folder 6

Laboratory Assignments - Astronomy 1, 1949-1950


Box 20 Folder 7

Observing List - Astronomy 1, 1949-1950


Box 20 Folder 8

G.S. Astronomy 2, undated


Box 20 Folder 9

Astronomy Class Lab Experiments, undated


Box 21 Folder 2

Blue Center, undated

[Research calculations]


Box 21 Folder 3

Minor Cloud "B" - PL 59 v 91 - Center Blue, undated

[Research Calculations]


Box 21 Folder 4

Field Corrections, undated

[Research Calculations]


Box 21 Folder 5

Calculations and an article from "Astronomical Journal", 1947


Box 21 Folder 6

C61505 (2 hr. exposure), 1st Measure, undated

[Research Calculations]


Box 21 Folder 7-18

Research calculations, undated


Box 21 Folder 19

Comparison with Other Catalogues, undated


Box 21 Folder 20

Zone +20 to +25, undated

[Research Calculations]


Box 21 Folder 21

Zone +25 to +30, undated

[Research calculations]


Box 22 Folder 1

Zone +50 - +55, undated

[Research calculations]


Box 22 Folder 2

Zone +55 - +60, undated

[Research calculations]


Box 22 Folder 3

Miscellaneous - All Zones, undated

[Research calculations]


Box 22 Folder 4

Notes and memos, 1950s


Box 22 Folder 5

Stencil-blank forms for research, undated


Box 22 Folder 6

Atomic Bomb Committee, November 1945

[Memos and drafts of letters]


Box 23 Folder 1

Budget, 1961-1962


Box 23 Folder 2

Minor Cloud B - Offsets-New Lists & Measurements, undated


Box 23 Folder 3

Comparison of Readings with Different Backgrounds & Different D-2 Openings, undated

[Research calculations]


Box 23 Folder 4

Comparison, undated

[Research calculations]


Box 23 Folder 5

Comparison of Iris Readings Made By Turning Wheel Clockwise & Counterclockwise, undated

[Research calculations]


Box 23 Folder 6

Measurments of..., undated

[Research calculations]


Box 23 Folder 7

Minor Cloud B - Offset Plates - Work Done with Preliminary Lists, undated

[Research calculations]


Box 23 Folder 8

Title of Chart Sent to Zurich, undated

[Research calculations]


Box 23 Folder 9-18

Research Calculations, undated


Box 24 Folder 1-3

Research Calculations, undated


Box 24 Folder 4

Budget Correspondence, 1940s


Box 24 Folder 5

Appointments (Forms, etc. Prior to 1962)


Box 24 Folder 6

Accounts - Old Correspondence, 1941-1955


Box 24 Folder 7-8

Research Calculations, undated

Series V: Testing Materials


Box 26 Folder 2

Various Locations


Box 26 Folder 3

Site Report, Australia, 1959


Box 26 Folder 4

Chilean Site Testing, 1959


Box 26 Folder 4

National Science Foundation (NSF) Balance Sheets, 1960


Box 26 Folder 6

Observation, El Leoncito, 1962


Box 26 Folder 7

Argentina: Finance Administration, 1962


Box 26 Folder 8

El Leoncito Final Copy & Correspondence, 1962


Box 27 Folder 1

Leoncito - Data, 1959


Box 27 Folder 2

Chilean Correspondence, 1959


Box 27 Folder 3

Astrograph Construction, 1962


Box 27 Folder 4

Sites-Chile, 1958-1961


Box 27 Folder 5

Site Photographs


Box 27 Folder 6

Tucson Report - Chile Report, 1960


Box 27 Folder 7

NSF G-8165 - Financial, 1960


Box 27 Folder 8

NSF - G-8165, 1957-1963


Box 27 Folder 7

Trip to Australia, 1958-1959


Box 27 Folder 10

NSF - G-8165 on Budget, Grants, 1959-1962


Box 27 Folder 11

Site Reports, to J. Oort, 1962-1963


Box 27 Folder 12

Site-testing, Australia, South Africa, 1956-1958


Box 27 Folder 13

Trips to South America, 1959-1961


Box 27 Folder 14

Ford Foundation, 1959-1960


Box 27 Folder 15

Astro - Plans and Correspondence - New Telescope, 1960

[Photographs included]