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Title: Frank P. Brackett Papers
Creator:
Brackett, Frank P.
Dates: 1826-1975
Extent: 18 feet 17 boxes
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library.
800 N. Dartmouth Avenue
Special Collections. Honnold/Mudd Library
Claremont University Consortium
Claremont, California 91711
Abstract:
Dr. Frank Parkhurst Brackett was born in Provincetown, Mass. in 1865. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887. Immediately
after he graduated he moved to California. In 1887, he taught at the McPherron Academy for boys in Los Angeles. In 1889
he married Lucretia Burdick in Pomona, California. He taught astronomy, mathematics, and Latin at Pomona College from 1892
to 1932. In 1912, he took a sabbatical to travel to Algeria to conduct experiments on government funded research project.
During World War I, he took another leave of absence from teaching to participate in the Commission in the Relief for Belgium.
At the same time, during World War I, he worked closely with Captain A. W. Stevens in Los Angeles on the Selective Service
Act of 1917. Brackett joined the R.O.T.C. and trained at Angel Island, in the San Francisco harbor, during the 1920s. From
1892 to 1932 Dr. Brackett, his colleagues and his students, as well as members of the community observed climatical, meteorological,
and solar observations at the Brackett Observatory on the Pomona College campus for the United States Department of Agriculture,
which later was renamed to the United States Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Collection Number: h073
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
Physical Location: Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Claremont University Consortium.
This collection is open for research.
For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact Special Collections Library staff.
[Identification of item], Frank P. Brackett Papers. Special Collections, Honnold Mudd Library, Claremont University Consortium.
Gift from Alison Howell in 2004.
Arranged and Processed by Russell Michalak
No addition to the collection is anticipated.
Dr. Frank Parkhurst Brackett was born in Provincetown, Mass. in 1865. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887. Soon
after he graduated he moved to California. In 1887, he taught at the McPherron Academy for boys in Los Angeles. In 1889
he married Lucretia Burdick in Pomona, California. He taught astronomy, mathematics, and Latin at Pomona College from 1892
to 1932. In 1912, he took a sabbatical to travel to Algeria to conduct experiments on government funded research project.
During World War I, he took another leave of absence from teaching to participate in the Commission in the Relief for Belgium.
At the same time, during World War I, he worked closely with Captain A. W. Stevens in Los Angeles on the Selective Service
Act of 1917. Brackett joined the R.O.T.C. and trained at Angel Island, in the San Francisco harbor, during the 1920s. From
1892 to 1932 Dr. Brackett, his colleagues and his students, as well as members of the community observed climatical, meteorological,
and solar observations at the Brackett Observatory on the Pomona College campus for the United States Department of Agriculture,
which later was renamed to the United States Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Frank P. Brackett's papers contain professional and personal correspondence, manuscripts, Pomona college documents, Personal
documents, Government publications, financial documents, illustrations, ephemera, and newspaper clippings and pamphlets.
Series 1, Correspondence, 1883-1975 and Undated
Subseries 1.1, Correspondence, 1883-1919
Subseries 1.2 Personal correspondence, 1891-1945
Series 2, Manuscripts, 1919-1975 and Undated
Series 2.1, Granite and Sagebrush, 1941-1951 and Undated
Subseries 2.2, More Granite and Sagebrush, 1944 and Undated
Subseries 2.3, History of Pomona Valley, Undated
Subseries 2.4, Biography of Theodore-Roosevelt-Gast, Undated
Subseries 2.5, Armistice Day Orientation, 1927
Series 2.6, Danville Historical Society, 1884
Subseries 2.7, Concerning the observatory and astronomy at Pomona College, Undated
Series 3, Pomona College, 1900-1948
Subseries 3.1, Financial documents, 1899-1948
Subseries 3.2, Business reports, 1894-1948
Subseries 3.3, Social Life, 1911-1947 and Undated
Subseries 3.4, Astronomy expedition, 1923 and Undated
Subseries 3.5, Astronomy department, 1893-1942
Series 4, Personal documents, 1865-1925
SubSeries 4.1. Financial documents, 1867-1925
Subseries 4.2, Legal documents, 1913-1941
Subseries 4.3, Genealogy, 1913-1951
Subseries 4.4, School Catalogues, 1887-1941
Series 5, Government documents, 1917-1949
Subseries 5.1, United States War Department, 1917-1936
Subseries 5.2, Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1916-1936
Subseries 5.3, Reserve Officers Training Corps -- California, 1918-1936
Subseries 5.4, War Department, Air Corps, Material Division, 1917-1933
Subseries 5.5, Department of Commerce, Civilian Aeronautics Administration, 1940-1949
Series 6, Illustrations, Undated
Series 7, Ephemera, 1826-1941
Series 8, Newspaper clippings and pamphlets, Undated
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection
Brackett, Frank Parkhurst, b. 1865-1951
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Johnson, Albert, 1869-1957
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
Astronomy -- Pomona, College (Claremont, Calif.)
Commission for Relief in Belgium
Granite and Sagebrush
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)-- Faculty
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)-- Songs and music
Selective Service Act of 1917
United States. Army. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
Western Americana, 1850-1999
manuscripts
scrapbooks