Guide to the Papers of John A. Anderson, 1914-1951
Guide to the Papers of John A. Anderson, 1914-1951
Collection number: Consult repository
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Scope and Content of Collection
Biographical information
Correspondence
California Institute of Technology 1940-1948
Committee on Bolometric Apparatus 1929-1939
Fund for Astrophysical Research 1937-1946
Hale, George E.
1928-1929
1930-1933
1934-1936
Hill, Bryon 1937-1941
McDowell, Clyde S. 1935-1938
McDowell, Clyde S. Memoranda 1935-1938
Menzel, Donald A. 1939-1940
Miscellaneous I
Bass, W.L.
Concerning Brown, W.
Curtis, H.L.
Dawson, V.E.
Diamond, D.
Dodge, H.
Elston, T.S.
Evenson, F.F.
Fletcher, C.
Frost, E.B.
Gibbs, R.C.
Gray, G.W.
Hall, J.S.
Harrison, G.R.
Hazard, R.E.
Heck, W.H.
Heaney, N.S.
Hoeppner, W.L.
Holmes, W.H.
Hubble, E.P.
King, H.C.
Miscellaneous II
Leibhardt, E.
Macelwane, J.B.
Main, V.E.
McCabe, C.F.
Morgan, T.H.
Meinel, A.
Melton, B.S.
Morin, H.E.
Myers, E.H.
O'Laughlin, H.
Puckett, A.E.
Perry, J.
Porter, R.W.
Miscellaneous III
Rieber, F.
Robinson, H.M.
Rusk, C.B.
Ryerson, K.
Schmid, A.
Skilling, W.T.
Tauchmann (?) G.T.
Teale, E.W.
Trent, F.P.
Virden, R.J.
Watson, R.S.
Wilson, M.
Slater, B.B.
Suverkrop, L.
Wormser, F.E.
Wright, F.
National Defense Research Committee: re Range finder problem 1940-1943
Observatory Committee 1931-1937
Observatory Council 1929-1938
Pickering, W.H. 1928-1929
Porter, Russell, W. 1929-1932
Rockefeller Foundation-General Education Board 1928-1948
Strong, John 1946-1947
Thorkelson, H.J. 1929-1948
Tillyer, E.D. 1946
Warner and Swasey Company 1928-1936
Woodbury, David O. 1937-1943
Carl Zeiss, Inc.
1928-February 1932
March 1932-1937
re: Recording photometer
The Observatories
Calculations for lenses, mirrors, etc. I-IX
Catalogs
Data for corrector plate for 200 inch mirror
Date re: Telescope - miscellaneous
Dedication of Palomar June 1948
Dome of Palomar, miscellany 1931-50
Drawings of an optical spherometer by R.W. Porter
Equipment for completion - lists, memoirs, etc. 1947
Graphs - lenses, mirrors, etc.
I
II
Lenses - Correspondence, Ross, Frank E.
1928-1929
1930-1937
Lenses - Correcting, calculations of Ross
I 1935-1949
II 1935-1949
Lenses - Correcting orders 1935-1941
Lenses - Spencer Lens Co. weekly reports 1942-1944
Meteorgraph record 1933
Mirror
Coating (aluminization) 1933-1950
Design
Corning Glass Works
Correspondence 1935-1948
Blueprints and photos
General Electric Correspondence
1928-1929
1930
1931-1934
Notes
Possible materials 1929-1935
Grinding
Data on curvature
Measurements
Transportation
Corning to Pasadena 1932-1935
Pasadena to Palomar 1947
Miscellany
Bibliography
Address book
Drafts for an exhibit
Notes
Palomar reprints list
Drawings of a telescope by R. Edgar
Monthly Reports re: Construction 1946-1948
Mount Wilson "Seeing" Record 1918-1933
Photographs I
Photographs II
Publicity
News clippings
Telescope celluloid model correspondence 1936-1940
Radio Station 1935-1946
Requests for photographs 1932-1945
Requests - miscellaneous 1931-1947
Schmidt telescope
Correspondence, 1946-1947
Data I
Data II
Seismometer data
Site
Bills, ordinances, permits, etc. 1936-1946
Miscellany
Property purchase
1934-1936
1937-1940
Roadways 1934-1938
San Diego Board of Supervisors, 1935-1942
"Seeing" records and problems,
1914-1927
1928-1947
Selection 1928-1934
Utilities 1936-1940
Solar furnace
Solar telescope
Spectrographic equipment
General
Gratings 1938-1940
f/0.36 objectives lens. G.E. Hale correspondence 1933-1936
Bausch and Lomb spectrograph 1931
Tube and mounting
Committee on design 1928-1936
Contracts 1936
Correspondence with individuals 1933-1936
Correspondence with companies 1929-1935
Correspondence with Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Company 1936-1940
Drawings
Memoranda 1936
Truss
Papers and reprints and reports
Papers by J. Anderson; See folder for list (3 folders)
Reports I
Reports II
Reports III
Reprints I
Reprints II
Reprints correspondence 1933-1938