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Astronomy--Study and teaching

Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Astronomy students outside the Maria Mitchell Observatory

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Date
1925
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Three students using a telescope outside the observatory

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Astronomy students outside the Maria Mitchell Observatory

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Date
1925
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The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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Six students using telescopes outside the observatory

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Astronomy students outside the Maria Mitchell Observatory

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Date
1925
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The Vassar College Archives within the Digital Library include some images, texts, and material items that are racist, xenophobic, or otherwise harmful. The Vassar Libraries have provided descriptive text and additional notes whenever possible to alert Digital Library users to these items. The Engaged Pluralism Initiative Race and Racism in Historical Collections Project Group is working with the library on contextualizing and facilitating community conversations about these materials. For more information see: https://library.vassar.edu/rrhc
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Six students using telescopes outside the observatory

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Guide to the Caroline Furness Papers, 1840-1938

Collection Title
Caroline Furness Papers
Creator
Furness, Caroline E. (Caroline Ellen), 1869-1936
Abstract
The Caroline Furness Papers consist
of correspondence, personal and professional papers, writings, research, and
photographs created and assembled by American astronomer and Vassar faculty member
Caroline E. Furness. Notable correspondents include Furness’s father, Henry B.
Furness; Vassar faculty member Mary W. Whitney; Kan'ichi Asakawa; Sakusaburo
Uchigasaki; Rose O'Neill; Vilhjalmur Stefansson; and other astronomers, including
Jan van der Bilt, Phoebe Waterman Haas, and Ruth E. Smith.
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Guide to the Maria Mitchell Papers, 1843-2016 (bulk
1853-1889)

Collection Title
Maria Mitchell Papers
Creator
Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889
Abstract
Correspondence, manuscripts,
research material, photographs, and glass plate negatives relating to Mitchell's work as an astronomer and
member of the faculty of Vassar College.
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Guide to the Vassar College Astronomy Department Records, 1888-1936

Collection Title
Vassar College Astronomy Department Records
Abstract
Record books and notebooks, including transit room and dome books containing records of astronomical observations, 1888-1912; variable stars records, 1907-1913; records of observations from the meridian room, 1888-1936; and notebooks from observations, lectures, and studies, some of which were kept by Mary W. Whitney.
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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Maria Mitchell Observatory interior

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Date
1925
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Professor Caroline Ellen Furness and two students in the clock and chronograph room. Furness is seated at a desk, one student is at the chronograph, and the other is in front of the clock

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Mary Whitney in the Maria Mitchell Observatory

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Date
1900-1910
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Professor Mary Watson Whitney seated at a desk in the observatory's clock and chronograph room

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