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Overview of the Collection
Title: Alfred Harrison Joy Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1910-1972
Collection Number: mssJoy papers
Creator:
Joy, Alfred H. (Alfred
Harrison), 1882-1973.
Extent:
Approximately 2,150 items in 10 boxes
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 consists of the professional papers of American astronomer Alfred Harrison Joy (1882-1973) and contains correspondence
and
research files related to Joy's study of stellar radial velocities, variable stars, T Tauri stars, and galactic structure.
There is also an extensive amount of material related to Joy's involvement with the American Astronomical Society and the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific in the collection.
Language: English.
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[Identification of item]. Alfred Harrison Joy Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Provenance
Placed on permanent deposit in the Huntington Library by the Observatories of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection. This was done in 1989 as part of
a letter of agreement (dated November 5, 1987) between the Huntington and the
Carnegie Observatories. The papers have yet to be officially accessioned.
Cataloging of the papers was completed in 1989 prior to their transfer to the
Huntington.
Biographical Note
Alfred Harrison Joy was a distinguished stellar astronomer who spent most of his
professional career at the Mount Wilson Observatory. His work on stellar radial
velocities, variable stars, and galactic structure in the early twentieth century
laid the groundwork for the rapidly expanding field of astrophysics. His pioneering
work, his long tenure at Mount Wilson, his central roles in the Astronomical Society
of the Pacific and American Astronomical Society, and his position as Secretary of
the Observatory make him a significant figure in the history of astronomy.
Alfred H. Joy was born in Greenville, Illinois, on September 23, 1882 to Frank and
Louise (Maynard) Joy. Little is known of his early years, but it appears that Joy's
mother passed on to her son a great love of science. When it was time for him to go
to college, he went to a small local school, Greenville College, operated by the
Free Methodist Church. He took his degree in 1903 in Latin and science, graduating
in a class of seven. Joy then spent the next year at Oberlin College in Ohio,
obtaining an M.A. in physics. His teacher at Oberlin was Charles E. St. John, who
would later become his colleague at Mount Wilson.
Upon receiving his M.A. in 1904, Joy immediately obtained a teaching position at the
American University of Beirut. He was the instructor of physics at Beirut and this
included teaching astronomy. Over the years, his abilities and interest in astronomy
grew, helped by his participation in the 1905 Lick Observatory eclipse expedition in
Egypt, the transit of Mercury, and observations of the 1910 apparition of Halley's
comet. In 1909, Joy spent the summer in Oxford and Cambridge working on the
Carte du Cielproject. In the summer of 1910, Joy
worked as an assistant at the Yerkes Observatory. And in the 1910-11 academic year
he obtained a Thaw fellowship to Princeton where he received valuable astronomy
instruction from Henry Norris Russell. Joy's notebooks from Russell's classes are a
valuable part of this collection (the "classes" were one-on-one instruction sessions
with Russell at his Princeton home). This period, from 1909 to 1911, was crucial in
shaping Joy's future astronomical interests.
Joy returned to Beirut in 1911 where he had recently been appointed director of the
Observatory. In 1914, he traveled to Potsdam, Germany, to continue his research
interests. At Potsdam he came into contact with Karl Schwarzschild and Ejnar
Hertzsprung, two important figures in the growing field of astrophysics. Joy then
went to the Yerkes Observatory for a second time to help in their stellar parallax
program. By 1915, however, the First World War was well underway and Joy found it
impossible to get back to Beirut. Fortunately for him, he had come to the attention
of George Ellery Hale at Mount Wilson, and Hale soon offered Joy a permanent
position at Mount Wilson, a position he held until his retirement thirty-three years
later in 1948.
While Joy's first year at Mount Wilson saw work on solar matters, he soon became
involved in the stellar spectroscopy work headed by Walter S. Adams. Earlier, Adams
and Kohlsch|tter had learned how to accurately determine a star's spectral class and
absolute luminosity. Using this information it became possible for them to calculate
the distance to the star, a quantity referred to as its "spectroscopic parallax."
Joy worked at deciphering numerous stellar spectra until, in 1935, Joy and Adams had
published a catalogue of spectroscopic parallaxes of 4,179 stars.
Joy soon became involved in the study of variable stars. Splitting the stars among
three researchers at Mount Wilson, Joy worked on red semi-regular variable stars.
One exception was the remarkable long-period M-type variable, Mira (omicron Ceti).
Joy had a fondness for this famous star, perhaps due to his spectroscopic discovery
of its faint companion star in 1920. Noting the odd spectrum, Joy had written to R.
G. Aitken at Lick to see if he could visually observe the companion in their large
refracting telescope. Aitken soon saw the faint star, thus confirming Joy's
discovery. Joy also amassed a great deal of information on the W Virginis
(Population II) Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars, material that has led to a greater
understanding of our Galaxy.
Joy's work on variable stars led to many new results which increased astronomers'
understanding of these peculiar objects. He showed in 1933 that the emission lines
in RW Tauri's spectrum were due to a small Saturn-like ring around the brighter
primary star. Joy identified many spectroscopic binaries and initiated spectroscopic
studies of dwarf novae.
Another of Joy's important researches was his study of galactic rotation. From his
earlier studies of the radial velocity of Cepheid variables, he collected a large
sample of data and demonstrated that the Population I Cepheids constituted a
low-velocity family of stars and was able to calculate the coordinates of the
Galaxy's center.
Perhaps Joy's most far-reaching work was that on the T Tauri stars. This came about
because of his study of M-type dwarfs. Joy became acquainted with these latter stars
during his work with Adams. As Joy became interested in the M dwarfs' habit of
"flaring," he came across the unusual star UZ Tauri. This type of star, described by
Joy as a T Tauri variable in 1945, later proved to be the transition between
interstellar clouds and main-sequence stars.
In 1919, Joy married Margherita O. Burns, a computer at the Observatory. The next
year, he was appointed Secretary of the Observatory. In this new position, Joy was
constantly in contact with the community and press regarding astronomical matters in
general and happenings at the Mount Wilson Observatory in particular. Joy remained
as Secretary, in addition to his other duties, until his retirement in 1948.
Joy's most infamous feat was his unfortunate accident in 1946 at the age of
sixty-four when he fell twenty feet from the Cassegrain platform of the 100-inch
telescope to the cement floor. Breaking an arm, a leg, and his hip, Joy was
hospitalized but with characteristic vigor, was back observing eight months
later.
A great deal of correspondence in the collection is with the Astronomical Society of
the Pacific. Joy served in many capacities with this organization, being on its
Board of Directors, President in 1931 and 1939, and from 1945 to 1968, editor of the
Leaflets, a monthly issuance of small eight page reports for laymen and astronomers
on new results in astronomy. In 1950, the Society presented Joy with its highest
award, the Bruce Gold Medal. Joy was active in other organizations as well,
particularly the American Astronomical Society, being its President from 1949 to
1952. In 1949, Joy was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1964 was
named an Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society. In closing, perhaps the best
description of Joy comes from his close friend George H. Herbig: "His scientific
work was typical of the man himself: it was done quietly, patiently, with gentle
humor, with great honesty and generosity. It was accomplished without fanfare,
published without arrogance or pretence, and with recognition of the debt he owed to
others. Joy was usually content simply to report what he had seen or done, in the
conviction that speculation or over-interpretation is often evanescent, but that
solid observations would inevitably survive."
Scope and Content
The collection consists of the professional papers of American astronomer Alfred
Harrison Joy (1882-1973). It includes both incoming and copies of going
correspondence (3 boxes) and research files (manuscripts, lectures, notebooks, etc.)
related to Joy's study of stellar radial velocities, variable stars, T Tauri stars,
and galactic structure.
Correspondents include: Helmut A. Abt, Ansel Adams, Robert Grant Aitken, George
Ellery Hale, George Howard Herbig, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Gerard Peter Kuiper, Willem
Jacob Luyten, Beverly T. Lynds, Paul W. Merrill, Thornton Page, Miroslav Plavec,
Frederick Hanley Seares, and Alexander N. Vyssotsky. There is also an extensive
amount of material related to Joy's involvement with the American Astronomical
Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in the collection.
Correspondence (Boxes 1-3)
The correspondence
includes both incoming letters and outgoing carbon copies. They are arranged in
folders alphabetically by named correspondent or subject. The correspondence files
are listed alphabetically according to the last name of the correspondent or, in
some cases, to the first word of the subject heading. If a particular correspondent
has less than three items associated with him or her, then these have been placed in
the "Miscellaneous Correspondence" files at the end. In the list for each file is
noted the correspondent's name, the years covered by the letters, the number of
items in the file, and any extra comments are in brackets below each entry.
Astronomical working papers (Boxes 4-6)
The working
papers are arranged in folders alphabetically according to their subject.
Talks and papers (Box 7)
These are arranged in
folders chronologically according to when they were given or published. Undated
items are placed at the end of the series.
Society material (boxes 7-8)
This series contains
printed programs of conferences and minutes of meetings for the American
Astronomical Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The folders are
arranged chronologically within each society.
Photographs (Box 8)
There are a few folders at the
end of Box 8 which contain three dozen photographs, mainly of stellar spectra.
Notebooks and reprints (Boxes 9-10)
This series contains various
record and note books. Included here are his notes from Henry Norris Russell's
classes and a list of his published papers. Includes one volume of bound
reprints published by Joy in the
Publications of the Astronomical Society of
the Pacific
(1917-1932)
Arrangement
Organized in the following series: 1. Correspondence (Boxes 1-3), and 2.
Manuscripts, notebooks and volumes, lectures, and research files (Boxes 4-10).
Related Materials in the Huntington Library
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.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Joy, Alfred H. (Alfred
Harrison), 1882-1973 -- Archives.
American Astronomical
Society.
Astronomical Society
of the Pacific.
Carnegie Institution
of Washington.
Mount Wilson
Observatory -- History -- Sources.
Astronomers -- California, Southern --
Archives.
Astronomers --
Correspondence.
Astronomy -- Research.
Stars -- Motion in line of
sight.
T Tauri stars.
Variable stars.
Forms/Genres
Lectures -- 20th century.
Letters (correspondence) -- 20th
century.
Manuscripts -- 20th
century.
Notebooks -- 20th century.
Research (document genres) -- 20th
century.
Alternate Authors
Abt, Helmut A.
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984.Abt, Helmut
A.
Aitken, Robert Grant, 1864-1951.Abt,
Helmut A.
Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938.Abt,
Helmut A.
Herbig, G. H. (George H.)Abt, Helmut
A.
Hogg, Helen Sawyer, 1905-1993.Abt,
Helmut A.
Kuiper, Gerard P. (Gerard Peter),
1905-1973.Abt, Helmut A.
Luyten, Willem Jacob, 1899-1994.Abt,
Helmut A.
Lynds, Beverly T.Abt, Helmut
A.
Merrill, Paul W. (Paul Willard),
1887-1961.Abt, Helmut A.
Page, Thornton.Abt, Helmut
A.
Plavec, Miroslav.Abt, Helmut
A.
Seares, Frederick Hanley,
1873-1964.Abt, Helmut A.
Vyssotsky, A. N. (Alexander N.),
1888-
American Astronomical
Society.
Astronomical Society of the
Pacific.
Carnegie Institution of
Washington.
Note
Each folder is numbered in the following format: #.#, where the number preceding the
period is the box which contains the folder and the number following the period is
the individual folder number itself.
Abbreviations used:
-
corresp.:
correspondent(s)
Folder 1.1
Giorgio ABETTI 1959-60,
65-67
Folder 1.2
Helmut Arthur ABT 1960, 63, 65-67,
72
Folder 1.3
Robert Grant AITKEN 1923, 25,
28-29, 31, 40, 49-50
Folder 1.4
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF VARIABLE STAR OBSERVERS 1952, 54
Physical Description: 4
[Corresp: Margaret W. Mayall]
Folder 1.5
AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY -- General Correspondence 1936, 47, 49, 51-53, 61-62,
64-67
Folder 1.6
AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY -- Publications Committee 1950-53
Folder 1.7
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Charles Hitchcock ADAMS 1931-32, 39-40
Folder 1.8
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- William P. BIDELMAN 1958, 60-61
Folder 1.9
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Sturla EINARSSON 1951, 54, 57, 61-66, 68
Folder 1.10
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Thea (Mrs. Sturla) EINARSSON
1965-68
Folder 1.11
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Vera (Mrs. Paul W.) GRAVES 1951, 60, 62-65
Folder 1.12
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Mrs. Adeline A. GUNTERN 1963-68
Folder 1.13
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Hamilton Moore JEFFERS 1965-68
Folder 1.14
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Katherine G. KRON 1962, 64-67
Folder 1.15
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Gibson REAVES 1968-69
Folder 1.16
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Miscellaneous Correspondence
1949-50, 60, 65, 68
Physical Description: 11
[Corresp: Edward A. Mayers; Helmut A. Abt; Elizabeth Roemer; David M. Gregory;
Helen M. Pillans]
Folder 1.19
Marianne C. BRETZ 1964,
66
Folder 1.20
Julius Arthur BROWN 1922,
26-27
Folder 1.21
Charles E. R. BRUCE 1957,
64-67
Folder 2.23
Annie Jump CANNON 1919, 26,
35
Folder 2.24
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 1920, 46-47, 51
Physical Description: 11
[Corresp: James F. Sullivan; Vannevar Bush; Walter M. Gilbert; Ada Margaret
Brayton; Title Insurance; Paul A. Scherer]
Folder 2.25
Ernest Barrett CHAMBERLAIN 1964
Folder 2.27
Raymond Smith DUGAN 1929-30, 32,
35-36
Folder 2.28
Olin Jeuck EGGEN 1951,
60
Folder 2.30
Owen GINGERICH 1958, 64,
67
Folder 2.31
George Ellery HALE 1919,
32-33
Folder 2.33
Margaret HARWOOD 1932,
36
Folder 2.34
George Howard HERBIG 1938, 43-49,
51, 53-55, 57-58, 60-61, 65
Folder 2.35
Ejnar HERTZSPRUNG 1914-15, 34,
59
Folder 2.36
Paul William HODGE 1964-65
Folder 2.37
Helen Sawyer HOGG 1936, 42, 46,
48-49, 58
Folder 2.40
Theodore Siegumfeldt JACOBSEN 1921,
49, 60
Folder 2.41
Philip Childs KEENAN 1942
Folder 2.42
Zdenek KOPAL 1948, 56,
66
Folder 2.44
Gerard Peter KUIPER 1934-36
Folder 2.47
Willem Jacob LUYTEN 1935-36,
48-49
Folder 2.49
McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY 1965
Physical Description: 6
[Corresp: Jay E. Greene]
Folder 2.50
Antonia Caetana de P. P. MAURY 1932
Folder 2.51
Nicholas Ulrich MAYALL 1942, 47,
49
Folder 2.52
Donald Howard MENZEL 1939
Folder 2.53
Paul Willard MERRILL 1959-63
Physical Description: 87
[This material is mostly correspondence between Merrill and the University of
Michigan Press about his book
Space Chemistry. Joy
took care of the final publication details after Merrill's death]
Folder 2.55
Samuel Alfred MITCHELL 1943
Folder 2.56
Charlotte Emma MOORE [SITTERLY] 1936, 61
Folder 2.57
Joseph Haines MOORE 1931-32
Box 3 (N-Z, Miscellaneous)
Folder 3.58
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1944,
56, 61, 64-66
Physical Description: 18
[Corresp: Frank Baldwin Jewett; Frederick Eugene Wright; Hugh L. Dryden; G. M.
Clemence; Edna Gilbertson]
Folder 3.59
Jan Hendrik OORT 1932, 39-41,
45
Folder 3.60
Thornton Leigh PAGE 1963-67
Folder 3.61
Cecilia Helena PAYNE-GAPOSCHKIN 1942
Folder 3.62
Robert Methven PETRIE 1963,
66
Folder 3.63
John Stanley PLASKETT 1931-32,
34
Folder 3.64
Miroslav PLAVEC 1962-65,
67
Folder 3.66
THE REVIEW OF POPULAR ASTRONOMY 1967
Physical Description: 4
[Corresp: David B. Williams]
Folder 3.67
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN 1934-35
Folder 3.68
Robert Shirley RICHARDSON 1924,
66
Folder 3.69
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 1934-35,
64
Physical Description: 17
[Corresp: Kathleen Williams; Clabon Walter Allen; E. C. Rubidge]
Folder 3.70
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 1960-61
Physical Description: 4
[Corresp: Peter M. Millman; J. E. Kennedy]
Folder 3.71
Henry Norris RUSSELL 1923,
40
Folder 3.72
RUSSIAN ASTRONOMERS' RELIEF FUND 1922-23
Physical Description: 22
[Cor resp: Edwin Brant Frost; George Van Biesbroeck; Otto Struve; Vernon Kellogg;
A. Belopolsky]
Folder 3.73
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK 1930-31
Physical Description: 19
[Corresp: John R. White; Frank Been; George L. Mauger]
Folder 3.74
Harlow SHAPLEY 1923-24, 31, 40, 47,
49
Folder 3.76
Bancroft Walker SITTERLY 1922,
27-28, 30
Folder 3.77
SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION STANDARDS 1947-48
Physical Description: 14
[Cor resp: W. W. Morgan; A. N. Vyssotsky; Andrew McKellar; R. M. Petrie; J. A.
Pearce; John J. Nassau]
Folder 3.79
Joel STEBBINS 1923, 38,
55
Folder 3.82
A. David THACKERAY 1937, 53,
61
Folder 3.83
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS 1966
Physical Description: 6
[Corresp: Leo F. Hamilton]
Folder 3.84
George VAN BIESBROECK 1923, 26, 44,
53, 59, 61
Folder 3.85
Peter VAN DE KAMP 1947-49
Folder 3.86
Alexander N. VYSSOTSKY 1943-50
Folder 3.88
Harold Francis WEAVER 1953,
61
Folder 3.89
William C. WEBER 1921-22,
26
Physical Description: 20
[Includes letters from/to William Joseph Hussey]
Folder 3.90
John Marsh WILCOX 1966-67
Folder 3.92
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE A-B
Physical Description: 40
[Ansel Adams; Aetna Casualty and Surety Co.; Harold Lee Alden; Dinsmore Alter;
American Institute of Physics [Elmer Hutchisson]; A. D. Andrews; Basic Books, Inc.
[Jack Lynch]; F. Samuel Bauer; W. W. Baumeister; F. E. Baxandall; Carlyle Smith
Beals; F. A. Bellamy; Bernard Benfield; Louis Berman; Peter Bodenheimer; John C.
Brandt; Frederick E. Brasch; P. ten Bruggencate]
Folder 3.93
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE C-G
Physical Description: 39
[Leon Campbell; L. F. Caouette; Edwin Francis Carpenter; Joseph Wyan Chamberlain;
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; Clarence Augustus Chant; Giulio Cioppi; Norman G. Cobb;
Elizabeth Connor; Dictionary of Scientific Biography [Charles Coulton Gillispie];
Bayard Dodge; John Wainwright Evans, Jr.; M. W. Feast; Charles Fehrenbach; George
Field [, Ivan Robert King, and Rudolph Leo Minkowski]; Simon Freed; Edwin Brant
Frost; Sergei Illarionowitsh Gaposchkin; The Geographical Magazine [Walter
Hingston]; Frederick Orville Grover]
Folder 3.94
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE H-M
Physical Description: 35
[Robert Hardie; John Frederick Heard; A. F. Hewitt, Jr.; Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit; C.
M. Huffer; Hugh Mitchell Johnson; Sharon Jordan; Robert Paul Kraft; B. V. Kukarkin;
William Kunkel; J. C. Lair; R. A. Lyttleton; Dean Benjamin McLaughlin; W. Martin;
William C. Miller; Deborah J. Mills; William Wilson Morgan; G. S. Mumford; James K.
Murphy]
Folder 3.95
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE N-R
Physical Description: 22
[National Geographic Magazine [William J. Showalter]; O. Richard Norton; Frank Q.
Orrall; Valfrids Osvalds; Joseph Algernon Pearce; Harry Hemley Plaskett; Popular
Astronomy [Ralph L. Henry]; President's Committee on the National Medal of Science
[Bryce Crawford, Jr.]; George Worrall Preston, III; Grote Reber; Paul E. Roques;
Norman Rubenfeld]
Folder 3.96
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE S-Z
Physical Description: 40
[Charles Edward St. John; Science; Frederick Hanley Seares; W. T. Skilling; Charles
Hugh Smiley; Harlan J. Smith; Albert W. Staub; Dorothy Michelson [Mrs. William D.]
Stevens; Mrs. Emma B. Stoll; H. H. Turner; University Club of Pasadena [Courtenay
Monsen]; University of Toronto Library [Robert H. Blackburn]; Tomas S. Vanasek;
Brian Warner; B. C. J. Wheatlake; Raymond H. Wilson, Jr.; F. Wunschmann; Arthur
Bambridge Wyse; M. C. Zukerman]
Astronomical Working Papers
Folder 4.97
Cluster Paper -- Observations of Bright Variables
Folder 4.98
Correlation Curves, Adams & Joy -- 1925
Folder 4.99
Criteria for Spectral Type
Folder 4.100
Lists of Double Stars (taken at Mt. Wilson) 1929, 45-46
Folder 4.107
Giant M Stars, Recent Plates
Folder 4.109
Published Observations of RR Lyrae Stars
Folder 4.110
Observations of New RR Lyrae Stars, 1938-48 and 1954-55
Folder 5.119
TT Aurigae -- Original Settings
Folder 5.121
Tables 1934
Physical Description: 1
[Comparisons of spectral lines with spectral type]
Folder 5.122
Miscellaneous Tables and Charts
Folder 5.124
60-Inch Plate Measurements 1-10,000
Folder 6.125
100-Inch Plates
Physical Description: 1
[List of plates taken by Joy with 100-inch telescope]
Folder 6.126
Record of Plates Measured
Folder 6.127
Dwarf Variables -- Kuiper Chapter 18
Physical Description: 25
[Includes copies of typed mss.: "The Unusual Brightness in the Ultraviolet of
Certain T Tauri-Type Stars," by G. Haro and G. H. Herbig; "Variable Stars of Low
Luminosity," by A. H. Joy [Presidential Address of the AAS, Michigan]; "Emission
Lines in Stellar Spectra," by A. H. Joy; "Short Period Changes in the Spectrum of T
Tauri," by E. B. Weston and L. H. Aller; "The SS Cygni Variables as Spectroscopic
Binaries," [by A. H. Joy]]
Folder 6.128
Globular Cluster Chart Photographs
Physical Description: 17
[Includes ltr H. S. Hogg 6 A. H. Joy. Not all photos are of globular clusters]
Folder 6.129
Mt. Wilson Spectrographic Observations of Dwarf M Stars
Folder 6.130
Mount Wilson Standard Stars for Spectral Type
Folder 6.131
Photographs of XZ Cygni Curves
Folder 6.132
T Tauri and UV Ceti (Manuscripts), 1955, 1957
Folder 6.133
Tucson Notes
Physical Description: 4
[Notes regarding 75th meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Tucson,
Dec. 28, 1964]
Folder 6.135
Walter Sydney Adams
Physical Description: 7
[Concerning Joy's biographical articles on Adams for
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and
National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs.
Includes: copy typed ms. "Biographical Notes --Walter S. Adams" [c. 1955]; copy
typed ms. "Biographical Notes on Walter S. Adams (August 1943)"; Bibliographic
notes; handwritten note by Adams on the time he and others took A. S. Eddington to a
baseball game in Los Angeles]
Folder 6.137
Adriaan van Maanen
Physical Description: 2
[Notes: "Mention of vM in Annual Report"; copy typed ms. "Adriaan van Maanen's
Influence on the Island Universe Theory," [by R. Berendzen and R. Hart, c. 1972]]
Folder 6.138
Notes and Clippings related to Paul Willard Merrill
Folder 6.139
Henry Norris Russell
Physical Description: 3
[Biographical article and notes for the
Griffith
Observer]
Folder 6.140
Frederick Hanley Seares
Physical Description: 1
[Excerpt from letter of Richard Seares to H. W. Babcock, Nov. 17, 1964]
Folder 7.141
"Problems of Contemporary Astronomy"
Physical Description: 1
[Los Angeles, Mar. 21, 1930]
Folder 7.142
"Astronomy on Mount Wilson"
Physical Description: 1
[Sent to
Trails magazine, July 12, 1937]
Folder 7.143
"Celestial Photography at Mount Wilson"
Physical Description: 1
[c. 1940]
Folder 7.144
"Treasures of the Night"
Physical Description: 2
[Fresno, Dec. 1947]
Folder 7.145
"Strange Stellar Families"
Physical Description: 2
[San Francisco, Mar. 17,
1950]
Folder 7.146
"Address for Section D [of the AAAS]"
Physical Description: 1
[Cleveland, Dec. 26-31,
1950]
Folder 7.147
"Stellar Explorations with the Spectrograph"
Physical Description: 1
[Cleveland, AAS/AAAS, Dec. 26,
1950]
Folder 7.148
"The Motions and Dimensions of Our Stellar System"
Physical Description: 1
[c. 1950]
Folder 7.149
"Recent Advances in Our Knowledge of the World"
Physical Description: 2
[Dec. 1951]
Folder 7.150
"The 200-Inch Palomar Telescope and Its Work"
Physical Description: 1
[St. Louis, Jan. 1951]
Folder 7.151
"The Restless Stars"
Physical Description: 2
[San Francisco, Jan. 13,
1953]
Folder 7.152
"Variable Stars of Low Luminosity"
Physical Description: 2
[Boulder, AAS, Aug. 27,
1953]
Folder 7.153
"Stellar Families"
Physical Description: 1
[Victoria, RASCanada, Aug. 23,
1954]
Folder 7.154
Lecture given at Gyro Club, Victoria, British Columbia
Physical Description: 1
[Aug. 23, 1954]
Folder 7.155
"A Half Century of Astronomy in Southern California"
Physical Description: 1
[Pasadena, Jan. 20, 1955]
Folder 7.156
"Science and Religion"
Physical Description: 2
[June 9, 1959]
Folder 7.157
"Studies of RW Tauri"
Physical Description: 1
[Apr. 26, 1963]
Folder 7.158
"The Beginnings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific"
Physical Description: 1
[San Diego, June 13, 1963]
Folder 7.159
"The Semi-Centennial of the 100-Inch Reflector"
Physical Description: 1
[c. 1967]
Folder 7.160
"Modern Astronomical Research"
Physical Description: 1
[c. 1950]
Folder 7.161
"The Role of the Cepheid Variable in Astronomy"
Physical Description: 1
[Outline only; undated]
Folder 7.162
"Variable Stars"
Physical Description: 1
[Nov. 11, 1947]
Folder 7.163
Story of Palomar Film
Physical Description: 1
[Outline of film contents]
Folder 7.164
American Astronomical Society -- Minutes of the Council Meetings [1937-40, 1945-47]
Folder 7.165
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings
1922-36
Folder 7.166
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings
1936-50
Folder 7.167
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings
1951-60
Folder 8.168
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings
1961-65
Folder 8.169
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings
1966-69
Folder 8.170
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings
1970-72
Folder 8.171
American Astronomical Society -- Miscellaneous Reports, etc.
Folder 8.172
Astronomical Society of the Pacific -- Minutes of the Meetings of the Board
of Directors, 1964-69
Folder 8.173
Astronomical Society of the Pacific -- Minutes of the Annual Meetings,
1966-69
Folder 8.174
Astronomical Society of the Pacific -- Miscellaneous Reports and
Material
Folder 8.175
Programs -- Miscellaneous
Folder 8.176
Photographs: Spectra -- various stars
Physical Description: (26 total)
[UZ Tauri (1); UX Tauri (1); Arcturus (2); 19 Piscium (1); R Centauri (1); R Bootis
(1); p1 Gruis (1); SS Cygni (1); XZ Tauri (1); RW Aurigae (1); RW Tauri (1); RY
Tauri (1); T Pyxis (1); AG Aurigae (1); 61 Cygni & Antares (1); RS Ophiuchi (3);
X Aurigae (1); R Hydrae, T Geminorum, & 19 Piscium (1); X Cygni (1); R
Andromedae (1)]
Folder 8.177
Photographs: Spectra -- Mira [omicron Ceti]
Physical Description: (3 total)
Folder 8.178
Photographs: Novae & Supernovae
Physical Description: (5 total)
Folder 8.179
Photographs: Miscellaneous
Physical Description: (5 total)
Folder 9.180
Reference Notebook
Physical Description: 1
[Contains various subject headings with pertinent bibliographic references]
Folder 9.181
Handbook of Tables and Constants
Physical Description: 1
[Self-made lists]
Volume
Notes from Henry Norris Russell's course in Celestial Mechanics, Princeton,
1910-11
Volume
Notes from Henry Norris Russell's courses on Measurement of Photographs
& Parallax and Proper Motion Plates, 1910
Volume
Translation of Müller's
Photometrieby
A. H. Joy, 1910
Volume
List of Published Papers by A. H. Joy
[2 books. 1 contains short list of the eclipses to which Joy traveled]
Volume
Record Book of Spectral Lines
Volume
Record Book with Lists of Faint Dwarf Stars
Volume
Copied text and partial English translation of
Untersuchungen über den Lichtwesel des Sternes Lyrae, by G. W.
Myers
Volume
Copied text of
Untersuchungen ueber den Lichtwesel
des Sternes beta Persei,
by Johannes Hartnig, and
Photometrische Beobachtungen des veränderlichen Sterns Aurigae, by
J. Balanowsky, 1912
Volume
Bound reprints of papers by A. H. Joy published in
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1917-32