Inventory of the Alfred Harrison Joy Papers, 1910-1972
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Alfred Harrison Joy Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1910-1972
Creator:
Joy, Alfred Harrison
Extent: Number of containers: 10 boxes (2,150 items)
Repository: The
Huntington Library
San Marino, California 91108
Administrative Information:
There is no evidence that Joy passed on his literary rights to anyone. The Carnegie
Observatories, as part of the 1987 letter of agreement, have given the Huntington Library
the right to provide permission to publish from the papers.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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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.
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California.
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 Note
(Boxes 1-3)
1. Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
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.
(Boxes 4-6)
2. Astronomical Working Papers
Scope and Content Note
The working papers are arranged in folders alphabetically according to their subject.
(Box 7)
3. Talks and papers
Scope and Content Note
These are arranged in folders chronologically according to when they were given or
published. Undated items are placed at the end of the series.
(Boxes 7-8)
4. Society material
Scope and Content Note
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.
(Box 8)
5. Photographs
Scope and Content Note
There are a few folders at the end of Box 8 which contain three dozen photographs, mainly
of stellar spectra.
(Boxes 9-10)
6. Notebooks
Scope and Content Note
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.
(Box 10)
7. Reprints
Scope and Content Note
This is one volume of bound reprints published by Joy in the Publications of the
Astronomical
Container List
Box-folder 1.1
Giorgio ABETTI 1959-60, 65-67
Box-folder 1.2
Helmut Arthur ABT 1960, 63, 65-67, 72
Box-folder 1.3
Robert Grant AITKEN 1923, 25, 28-29, 31, 40, 49-50
Box-folder 1.4
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF VARIABLE STAR OBSERVERS 1952, 54
Physical Description: 4
Scope and Content Note
[Corresp: Margaret W. Mayall]
Box-folder 1.5
AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY -- General Correspondence 1936, 47, 49, 51-53, 61-62, 64-67
Box-folder 1.6
AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY -- Publications Committee 1950-53
Box-folder 1.7
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Charles Hitchcock ADAMS 1931-32, 39-40
Box-folder 1.8
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- William P. BIDELMAN 1958, 60-61
Box-folder 1.9
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Sturla EINARSSON 1951, 54, 57, 61-66, 68
Box-folder 1.10
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Thea (Mrs. Sturla) EINARSSON 1965-68
Box-folder 1.11
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Vera (Mrs. Paul W.) GRAVES 1951, 60, 62-65
Box-folder 1.12
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Mrs. Adeline A. GUNTERN 1963-68
Box-folder 1.13
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Hamilton Moore JEFFERS 1965-68
Box-folder 1.14
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Katherine G. KRON 1962, 64-67
Box-folder 1.15
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Gibson REAVES 1968-69
Box-folder 1.16
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC -- Miscellaneous Correspondence 1949-50, 60, 65, 68
Physical Description: 11
Scope and Content Note
[Corresp: Edward A. Mayers; Helmut A. Abt; Elizabeth Roemer; David M. Gregory; Helen M.
Pillans]
Box-folder 1.19
Marianne C. BRETZ 1964, 66
Box-folder 1.20
Julius Arthur BROWN 1922, 26-27
Box-folder 1.21
Charles E. R. BRUCE 1957, 64-67
Box-folder 2.23
Annie Jump CANNON 1919, 26, 35
Box-folder 2.24
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON 1920, 46-47, 51
Physical Description: 11
Scope and Content Note
[Corresp: James F. Sullivan; Vannevar Bush; Walter M. Gilbert; Ada Margaret Brayton;
Title Insurance; Paul A. Scherer]
Box-folder 2.25
Ernest Barrett CHAMBERLAIN 1964
Box-folder 2.27
Raymond Smith DUGAN 1929-30, 32, 35-36
Box-folder 2.28
Olin Jeuck EGGEN 1951, 60
Box-folder 2.30
Owen GINGERICH 1958, 64, 67
Box-folder 2.31
George Ellery HALE 1919, 32-33
Box-folder 2.33
Margaret HARWOOD 1932, 36
Box-folder 2.34
George Howard HERBIG 1938, 43-49, 51, 53-55, 57-58, 60-61, 65
Box-folder 2.35
Ejnar HERTZSPRUNG 1914-15, 34, 59
Box-folder 2.36
Paul William HODGE 1964-65
Box-folder 2.37
Helen Sawyer HOGG 1936, 42, 46, 48-49, 58
Box-folder 2.40
Theodore Siegumfeldt JACOBSEN 1921, 49, 60
Box-folder 2.41
Philip Childs KEENAN 1942
Box-folder 2.42
Zdenek KOPAL 1948, 56, 66
Box-folder 2.44
Gerard Peter KUIPER 1934-36
Box-folder 2.47
Willem Jacob LUYTEN 1935-36, 48-49
Box-folder 2.49
McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY 1965
Physical Description: 6
Scope and Content Note
[Corresp: Jay E. Greene]
Box-folder 2.50
Antonia Caetana de P. P. MAURY 1932
Box-folder 2.51
Nicholas Ulrich MAYALL 1942, 47, 49
Box-folder 2.52
Donald Howard MENZEL 1939
Box-folder 2.53
Paul Willard MERRILL 1959-63
Physical Description: 87
Scope and Content Note
[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]
Box-folder 2.55
Samuel Alfred MITCHELL 1943
Box-folder 2.56
Charlotte Emma MOORE [SITTERLY] 1936, 61
Box-folder 2.57
Joseph Haines MOORE 1931-32
Box 3 (N-Z, Miscellaneous)
Box-folder 3.58
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1944, 56, 61, 64-66
Physical Description: 18
Scope and Content Note
[Corresp: Frank Baldwin Jewett; Frederick Eugene Wright; Hugh L. Dryden; G. M. Clemence;
Edna Gilbertson]
Box-folder 3.59
Jan Hendrik OORT 1932, 39-41, 45
Box-folder 3.60
Thornton Leigh PAGE 1963-67
Box-folder 3.61
Cecilia Helena PAYNE-GAPOSCHKIN 1942
Box-folder 3.62
Robert Methven PETRIE 1963, 66
Box-folder 3.63
John Stanley PLASKETT 1931-32, 34
Box-folder 3.64
Miroslav PLAVEC 1962-65, 67
Box-folder 3.66
THE REVIEW OF POPULAR ASTRONOMY 1967
Physical Description: 4
Scope and Content Note
[Corresp: David B. Williams]
Box-folder 3.67
Pieter Johannes van RHIJN 1934-35
Box-folder 3.68
Robert Shirley RICHARDSON 1924, 66
Box-folder 3.69
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 1934-35, 64
Physical Description: 17
Scope and Content Note
[Corresp: Kathleen Williams; Clabon Walter Allen; E. C. Rubidge]
Box-folder 3.70
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 1960-61
Physical Description: 4
Scope and Content Note
[Corresp: Peter M. Millman; J. E. Kennedy]
Box-folder 3.71
Henry Norris RUSSELL 1923, 40
Box-folder 3.72
RUSSIAN ASTRONOMERS' RELIEF FUND 1922-23
Physical Description: 22
Scope and Content Note
[Cor resp: Edwin Brant Frost; George Van Biesbroeck; Otto Struve; Vernon Kellogg; A.
Belopolsky]
Box-folder 3.73
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK 1930-31
Physical Description: 19
Scope and Content Note
[Corresp: John R. White; Frank Been; George L. Mauger]
Box-folder 3.74
Harlow SHAPLEY 1923-24, 31, 40, 47, 49
Box-folder 3.76
Bancroft Walker SITTERLY 1922, 27-28, 30
Box-folder 3.77
SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION STANDARDS 1947-48
Physical Description: 14
Scope and Content Note
[Cor resp: W. W. Morgan; A. N. Vyssotsky; Andrew McKellar; R. M. Petrie; J. A. Pearce;
John J. Nassau]
Box-folder 3.79
Joel STEBBINS 1923, 38, 55
Box-folder 3.82
A. David THACKERAY 1937, 53, 61
Box-folder 3.83
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS 1966
Physical Description: 6
Scope and Content Note
[Corresp: Leo F. Hamilton]
Box-folder 3.84
George VAN BIESBROECK 1923, 26, 44, 53, 59, 61
Box-folder 3.85
Peter VAN DE KAMP 1947-49
Box-folder 3.86
Alexander N. VYSSOTSKY 1943-50
Box-folder 3.88
Harold Francis WEAVER 1953, 61
Box-folder 3.89
William C. WEBER 1921-22, 26
Physical Description: 20
Scope and Content Note
[Includes letters from/to William Joseph Hussey]
Box-folder 3.90
John Marsh WILCOX 1966-67
Box-folder 3.92
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE A-B
Physical Description: 40
Scope and Content Note
[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]
Box-folder 3.93
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE C-G
Physical Description: 39
Scope and Content Note
[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]
Box-folder 3.94
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE H-M
Physical Description: 35
Scope and Content Note
[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]
Box-folder 3.95
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE N-R
Physical Description: 22
Scope and Content Note
[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]
Box-folder 3.96
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE S-Z
Physical Description: 40
Scope and Content Note
[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
Box-folder 4.97
Cluster Paper -- Observations of Bright Variables
Box-folder 4.98
Correlation Curves, Adams & Joy -- 1925
Box-folder 4.99
Criteria for Spectral Type
Box-folder 4.100
Lists of Double Stars (taken at Mt. Wilson) 1929, 45-46
Box-folder 4.107
Giant M Stars, Recent Plates
Box-folder 4.109
Published Observations of RR Lyrae Stars
Box-folder 4.110
Observations of New RR Lyrae Stars, 1938-48 and 1954-55
Box-folder 5.119
TT Aurigae -- Original Settings
Box-folder 5.121
Tables 1934
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Comparisons of spectral lines with spectral type]
Box-folder 5.122
Miscellaneous Tables and Charts
Box-folder 5.124
60-Inch Plate Measurements 1-10,000
Box-folder 6.125
100-Inch Plates
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[List of plates taken by Joy with 100-inch telescope]
Box-folder 6.126
Record of Plates Measured
Box-folder 6.127
Dwarf Variables -- Kuiper Chapter 18
Physical Description: 25
Scope and Content Note
[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]]
Box-folder 6.128
Globular Cluster Chart Photographs
Physical Description: 17
Scope and Content Note
[Includes ltr H. S. Hogg 6 A. H. Joy. Not all photos are of globular clusters]
Box-folder 6.129
Mt. Wilson Spectrographic Observations of Dwarf M Stars
Box-folder 6.130
Mount Wilson Standard Stars for Spectral Type
Box-folder 6.131
Photographs of XZ Cygni Curves
Box-folder 6.132
T Tauri and UV Ceti (Manuscripts), 1955, 1957
Box-folder 6.133
Tucson Notes
Physical Description: 4
Scope and Content Note
[Notes regarding 75th meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Tucson,
Dec. 28, 1964]
Box-folder 6.135
Walter Sydney Adams
Physical Description: 7
Scope and Content Note
[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]
Box-folder 6.137
Adriaan van Maanen
Physical Description: 2
Scope and Content Note
[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]]
Box-folder 6.138
Notes and Clippings related to Paul Willard Merrill
Box-folder 6.139
Henry Norris Russell
Physical Description: 3
Scope and Content Note
[Biographical article and notes for the
Griffith Observer]
Box-folder 6.140
Frederick Hanley Seares
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Excerpt from letter of Richard Seares to H. W. Babcock, Nov. 17,
1964]
Box-folder 7.141
"Problems of Contemporary Astronomy"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Los Angeles, Mar. 21, 1930]
Box-folder 7.142
"Astronomy on Mount Wilson"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Sent to
Trails magazine, July 12, 1937]
Box-folder 7.143
"Celestial Photography at Mount Wilson"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[c. 1940]
Box-folder 7.144
"Treasures of the Night"
Physical Description: 2
Scope and Content Note
[Fresno, Dec. 1947]
Box-folder 7.145
"Strange Stellar Families"
Physical Description: 2
Scope and Content Note
[San Francisco, Mar. 17, 1950]
Box-folder 7.146
"Address for Section D [of the AAAS]"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Cleveland, Dec. 26-31, 1950]
Box-folder 7.147
"Stellar Explorations with the Spectrograph"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Cleveland, AAS/AAAS, Dec. 26, 1950]
Box-folder 7.148
"The Motions and Dimensions of Our Stellar System"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[c. 1950]
Box-folder 7.149
"Recent Advances in Our Knowledge of the World"
Physical Description: 2
Scope and Content Note
[Dec. 1951]
Box-folder 7.150
"The 200-Inch Palomar Telescope and Its Work"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[St. Louis, Jan. 1951]
Box-folder 7.151
"The Restless Stars"
Physical Description: 2
Scope and Content Note
[San Francisco, Jan. 13, 1953]
Box-folder 7.152
"Variable Stars of Low Luminosity"
Physical Description: 2
Scope and Content Note
[Boulder, AAS, Aug. 27, 1953]
Box-folder 7.153
"Stellar Families"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Victoria, RASCanada, Aug. 23, 1954]
Box-folder 7.154
Lecture given at Gyro Club, Victoria, British Columbia
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Aug. 23, 1954]
Box-folder 7.155
"A Half Century of Astronomy in Southern California"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Pasadena, Jan. 20, 1955]
Box-folder 7.156
"Science and Religion"
Physical Description: 2
Scope and Content Note
[June 9, 1959]
Box-folder 7.157
"Studies of RW Tauri"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Apr. 26, 1963]
Box-folder 7.158
"The Beginnings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[San Diego, June 13, 1963]
Box-folder 7.159
"The Semi-Centennial of the 100-Inch Reflector"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[c. 1967]
Box-folder 7.160
"Modern Astronomical Research"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[c. 1950]
Box-folder 7.161
"The Role of the Cepheid Variable in Astronomy"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Outline only; undated]
Box-folder 7.162
"Variable Stars"
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Nov. 11, 1947]
Box-folder 7.163
Story of Palomar Film
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Outline of film contents]
Box-folder 7.164
American Astronomical Society -- Minutes of the Council Meetings [1937-40, 1945-47]
Box-folder 7.165
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings 1922-36
Box-folder 7.166
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings 1936-50
Box-folder 7.167
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings 1951-60
Box-folder 8.168
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings 1961-65
Box-folder 8.169
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings 1966-69
Box-folder 8.170
American Astronomical Society -- Programs and/or Announcements of Meetings 1970-72
Box-folder 8.171
American Astronomical Society -- Miscellaneous Reports, etc.
Box-folder 8.172
Astronomical Society of the Pacific -- Minutes of the Meetings of the Board of Directors, 1964-69
Box-folder 8.173
Astronomical Society of the Pacific -- Minutes of the Annual Meetings, 1966-69
Box-folder 8.174
Astronomical Society of the Pacific -- Miscellaneous Reports and Material
Box-folder 8.175
Programs -- Miscellaneous
Box-folder 8.176
Photographs: Spectra -- various stars
Physical Description: (26 total)
Scope and Content Note
[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)]
Box-folder 8.177
Photographs: Spectra -- Mira [omicron Ceti]
Physical Description: (3 total)
Box-folder 8.178
Photographs: Novae & Supernovae
Physical Description: (5 total)
Box-folder 8.179
Photographs: Miscellaneous
Physical Description: (5 total)
Box-folder 9.180
Reference Notebook
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Contains various subject headings with pertinent bibliographic references]
Box-folder 9.181
Handbook of Tables and Constants
Physical Description: 1
Scope and Content Note
[Self-made lists]
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Notes from Henry Norris Russell's course in Celestial Mechanics, Princeton, 1910-11
Scope and Content Note
[2 volumes].
Box-folder -----
Notes from Henry Norris Russell's courses on Measurement of Photographs & Parallax and Proper Motion Plates, 1910
Scope and Content Note
[1 volume]
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Translation of Müller's
Photometrieby A. H. Joy, 1910
Scope and Content Note
[2 volumes]
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List of Published Papers by A. H. Joy
Scope and Content Note
[2 books. 1 contains short list of the eclipses to which Joy traveled]
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Record Book of Spectral Lines
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Record Book with Lists of Faint Dwarf Stars
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Copied text and partial English translation of
Untersuchungen über den Lichtwesel des Sternes Lyrae, by G. W. Myers
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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
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Bound reprints of papers by A. H. Joy published in
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1917-32
