Department of Astronomy records, 1880-1917

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Series V: Observatory Ledgers and Astronomical Reports, 1896-1917

The final series of the collection is comprised of notes, observations and computations on graph paper as well as two hard-cover bound student project reports. About half of the graph paper records are marked as the charts of the "Lick Eros Plates" and represent a collaborative effort with the Lick Observatory in California. Some correspondence regarding this collaboration can be found in Box 2 Folder 7. This series also includes 5 bound ledger books with computations on the Rutherfurd plates as well as from observations at Bloomingdale Station/116th Street from 1893 to 1901.



Box 4 Folder 21 1896


Box 4 Folder 22 1896, undated, 1896, undated


Box 4 Folder 23 1896-1897



Box 5 Folder 1 1897


Box 5 Folder 2 1899


Box 5 Folder 3 1899


Box 5 Folder 4 1903


Box 5 Folder 5 "Lick Eros Plates,", 1900-1901


Box 5 Folder 6 "Lick Eros Plates,", 1900-1901


Box 5 Folder 7 "Lick Eros Plates,", 1901


Box 5 Folder 8 "Lick Eros Plates,", 1901


Box 5 Folder 9 "Lick Eros Plates," 1901, undated, 1901, undated


Box 5 Folder 10 "Lick Eros Plates," approximately, 1901-1903


Box 5 Folder 11 "Lick Eros Plates," approximately, 1901-1903


Box 5 Folder 12 "Lick Eros Plates,", 1902-1903


Box 5 Folder 13 "Lick Eros Plates,", 1903



Box 6 Folder 1 Camp Columbia, Scattered Reports and Charts, 1908-1911


Box 6 Folder 2 "Detailed Report on Geodetic Surveying," Camp Columbia, 1912


Box 6 Folder 3 "Detailed Report: Geodesy and Astronomy," Camp Columbia, 1917



Box 7 Folder 1 Zenith Telescope, Variation of Latitude Investigation, volume 2, 1893-1899

Definitive investigation of the periodic errors of the Zenith telescope screw, 1896. Computations by F.E. Harpham under the direction of Harold Jacoby. Includes additional computations by J.K. Rees and H.S. Davis.


Box 7 Folder 3 Zenith Telescope, Variation of Latitude Investigation, volume 3, 1893-1900

Latitude observations, variation of latitude pairs, and reduction to apparent place.


Box 7 Folder 4 Elongations and Transits, 1893-1894

Computations by J.K. Rees and Harold Jacoby, from Bloomingdale Station / 116th Street with the Zenith telescope.


Box 7 Folder 2 Rutherfurd Photographic Measures, Plates XIV-XVIII, Volume 2 , 1901

"Plates without Reseau." Includes designation of plate (Rutherfurd Perseus and numerals) and dates (1901 April-May). Book spine attributes the work to "Young" - possibly work by Anne Sewell Young for her dissertation Rutherfurd photographs of the stellar clusters h and x Persei (also available online).



Box 4 Folder 24 Computation for all stars in the Yale measures; refraction tables; computations for checking distances and position angles of the Pleiades Plates, circa 1891

Computers Harold Jacoby, James McRichard and F.E. Hurley