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Title: Alexander Pogo Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1952-1959
Collection Number: mssPogo papers
Creator:
Pogo, Alexander, 1893-
Extent: 936 items.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains the papers of astronomer, classical scholar, and Mount Wilson Observatory librarian Alexander Pogo
(born 1893).
The collection is composed primarily of correspondence between Dr. Pogo and members of the general public with an interest
in astronomical issues and the work of the Mount Wilson Observatory.
Language: English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Alexander Pogo Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Deposit, 1988-1989.
Approximately fifty additional separate collections form the Mount Wilson Papers
of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and are available
for research in the Manuscripts Department of the Huntington Library.
Alexander Pogo was an astronomer and classical scholar born in Russia in 1893. He
served as the librarian for the Mount Wilson Observatory located in Pasadena,
California.
The collection is composed primarily of correspondence between Dr. Pogo and members of the general public with an interest
in astronomical issues and the work of the Mount Wilson Observatory. The Observatory was founded in 1904 by George Ellery
Hale and funded by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The Mount Wilson Observatory was also the research home of the
well-known astronomer Edwin Hubble.
The collection consists of a large number of letters from school-age children with questions about the workings of the universe.
Other correspondence includes questions from amateur astronomers as well as a number of queries about the relationship between
astronomy and religious issues, particularly biblical prophecies. Other subjects include flying saucers, space travel, expeditions
to the moon, observations of the sky, comets, eclipses, and new planets. The collection also includes a number of letters
from amateur and professional astronomers from around the world, particularly Europe and Latin America. Generally, the letters
were not addressed directly to Dr. Pogo but were forwarded to him from the Observatory’s administrative offices for replies.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by author with Dr. Pogo’s responses included in the same folder.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Pogo, Alexander,
1893-
Carnegie Institution of
Washington.
Mount Wilson
Observatory -- History -- Sources.
Astronomers -- United States --
Correspondence.
Astronomical observatories --
California -- Wilson, Mount (Mountain)
Astronomy -- United States -- History
-- 20th century -- Sources.
Space sciences -- United States --
History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Letters (correspondence) -- 20th
century.
Mount Wilson Observatory.