Inventory of the Edison Pettit Papers, 1920-1946
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Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection
Inventory of the Edison Pettit Papers, 1920-1946
The Huntington Library
San Marino, California
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- The Huntington Library
- 1151 Oxford Road
- San Marino, California 91108
- Phone: (626) 405-2203
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- URL: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=554
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Edison Pettit Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1920-1946
Creator:
Pettit, Edison
Extent: Number of containers: 6 boxes (3,100 pieces)
Repository: The
Huntington Library
San Marino, California 91108
Administrative Information:
According to a note in the papers, all personal correspondence of Edison Pettit
(indicated in the contents list as "PETTIT PERSONAL") remains the property of the family
and heirs of Edison Pettit. Before the personal property of Edison Pettit may be made
available for public research, permission must be obtained from a family member. 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 remaining portion
of the papers.
The Papers consist of approximately 3,100 pieces in 6 five-inch "Hollinger" clamshell
storage boxes.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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.
Access
Collection is open to qualified researches by prior application through the Reader
Services Department. For more information please go to following
URL.
Publication Rights
In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual materials,
researchers must obtain formal permission from the office of the Library Director. In
most instances, permission is given by the Huntington as owner of the physical property
rights only, and researchers must also obtain permission from the holder of the literary
rights In some instances, the Huntington owns the literary rights, as well as the
physical property rights. Researchers may contact the appropriate curator for further
information.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Edison Pettit Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino,
California.
Biographical Note
Edison Pettit was an astronomer on the staff of the Mount Wilson [and Palomar]
Observatories for thirty-five years. An observer and instrumentalist, he was a pioneer in
the early fields of infrared and ultraviolet research. His main interest was in the sun
but later expanded to include the moon and planets. His collaboration with Seth B.
Nicholson on the heat radiation from the planets and moon was the most significant
research on these bodies during the first half of the twentieth century.
Edison Pettit was born in Peru, Nebraska on September 22, 1890.
Note
* For a while, Pettit gave his birth date as
September 22, 1889. This error propagated long after Pettit corrected his mistake. Some
obituaries will thus incorrectly give his birth date as 1889.
His interest in
science grew after he entered the Peru State Normal School where he became the student
assistant in the physical laboratory in 1904. One year later he began working in the
small observatory at the school. From 1906 to 1907, Pettit was out of school, working at
the electric light plant which his father helped organize. Although not in school, Pettit
gained a great deal of practical experience. He returned to Normal School and graduated
in 1910, but stayed on an extra year and graduated with the first college class at Peru
in 1911. After graduation, Pettit obtained a job as a science teacher at Minden,
Nebraska, High School until 1914. In 1914, he became instructor in physics and astronomy
at Washburn College in Topeka, Kansas. The college had an observatory with an 11-inch
refracting telescope and Pettit would use this instrument to observe double stars,
comets, and Jupiter. While at Washburn, Pettit would occasionally spend summers at the
Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. His growing connection with the staff at
Yerkes prompted Pettit to leave Washburn College in 1918 and become a graduate student at
the University of Chicago. As a graduate student in astronomy, Pettit was assigned as a
student assistant at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. His chief work at
Yerkes centered on the study of solar prominences. During the solar eclipse of June 8,
1918, Pettit was stationed at Matheson, Colorado, and used the 11-inch objective from
Washburn College Observatory to photograph the corona. That same year, Pettit met and
married another astronomy graduate student at Chicago, Hannah Steele. On May 29, 1919,
Pettit observed an incredibly large prominence and was able to follow it through its
course. He was able to develop a formula describing the development of the prominence and
used this as the basis of his Ph.D. thesis, "The Forms and Motions of Solar Prominences,"
which was completed in 1920.
During his stay at Yerkes, Pettit came to the attention of the director of the Mount
Wilson Observatory, George Ellery Hale. Hale, the former director of Yerkes, offered
Pettit a position at Mount Wilson. Hannah Pettit, who obtained her Ph.D. in 1919, was
given a job as a computer at Mount Wilson. Shortly after his arrival, Pettit was assigned
the task of constructing vacuum thermocouples in order to measure radiation from stars
and planets. This work, done in collaboration with Seth Nicholson, was in response to the
effort mounted at Lowell Observatory by William W. Coblentz and Carl O. Lampland. After
six months, Pettit became adept at constructing the tiny thermocouples and the Mount
Wilson astronomers soon caught up with the Lowell workers. Together, Pettit and Nicholson
measured the radiation from all types of stars, obtaining their temperatures, diameters,
and established the concept of radiometric magnitudes. Using the same instruments, they
also calculated the surface temperatures of the planets and the moon. Pettit measured the
temperature of the moon during a lunar eclipse, obtaining the rate of cooling and heating
by the sun. These data were then used to determine the lunar heat capacity and
conductivity. The results of this work were generally confirmed by the Lowell researchers
and were quickly accepted by astronomers. The work remained as the basis for all stellar
and planetary temperature measurements until the 1960s, when new methods, including
planetary fly-bys, replaced the older results.
Another field in which Pettit specialized at Mount Wilson was the study of ultraviolet
solar radiation. Using thermopiles, Pettit attempted, beginning in 1924, to study the
variability of the solar ultraviolet and at first believed he had found evidence of large
variability. After more research, however, it was concluded that the variability was
caused by changes in the amount of ozone in the earth's atmosphere and not by changes in
solar energy output. The Mount Wilson work was supplemented by occasional trips,
beginning in 1930, by Pettit to the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Desert
Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. Pettit's ultraviolet work was of great interest to the
medical community as ultraviolet light was being considered as a treatment for
tuberculosis and other diseases. There is a great deal of correspondence in the papers
relating to such interest in his ultraviolet research.
Pettit's interest in solar prominences continued at Mount Wilson Observatory. Combining
his research there with summer trips to Yerkes or the McMath-Hulbert Observatory in
Michigan, Pettit eventually published a catalog of all well-observed eruptive
prominences. He also started using 16-millimeter motion picture cameras attached to
telescopes to photograph solar prominences. These movies were an excellent tool for the
study of prominences and were popular items at astronomical gatherings. Among other work
that Pettit indulged in was providing consultation to the researchers at the Desert
Sanatorium of Southern Arizona and providing materials for the North American Almanac.
Pettit retired from the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories in 1955. He stayed at his
Pasadena home, working in his private machine shop and observing with the 6-inch Clark
refracting telescope that he purchased in Michigan. Much of his time was spent in
visiting his wife in the hospital, after she had suffered a severe stroke. In 1961,
Hannah Steele Pettit passed away and shortly thereafter, in January, 1962, Pettit
suffered a stroke. He was forced to move to Tucson to stay with one of his two daughters,
Marjorie Pettit Meinel. Not too long after that, however, he suffered a second stroke and
passed away on May 5, 1962.
Scope and Content Note
(Boxes 1-6)
1. Correspondence, 1920-1946.
Scope and Content Note
This series contains both incoming and carbons of outgoing correspondence. The
correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent. The correspondence is
broken into five chronological groups:
- (1) 1920-1924 --Box 1
- (2) 1925-1929 --Boxes 2-3
- (3) 1930-1932 --Box 4
- (4) 1933-1937 --Box 5
- (5) 1938-1946 --Box 6
(Box 6)
2. Manuscripts, and graphs.
Scope and Content Note
The manuscripts are arranged in alphabetical order by the first keyword in the title.
Container List
Box-folder 1.1
A -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (19 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Charles Greeley Abbot (6); Robert Grant Aitken (5); American Association for the
Advancement of Science (1); American Astronomical Society (2); American Radio Tube Works
(2); John August Anderson (2); Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1)]
Box-folder 1.2
B -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (55 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Ren J Bache (3); Lloyd C. Bagby (4); Baker & Co., Inc. (3); George Banta Publishing Co.
(1); Edward Emerson Barnard (1); Storrs Barrows Barrett (7); Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.
(10); James G. Biddle (17); Paul Biefeld (4); Herbert Brownell (2); S. M. Brownell (1);
Bertram Borden Boltwood (1); John A. Brashear & Co. {see J. B. McDowell Co.}; The Braun
Corporation (1)]
Box-folder 1.3
C -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (23 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Walter Guyton Cady (2); Edwin Francis Carpenter (1); Central Scientific Co. (4); Major
E. B. Colladay {re plans for Eclipse expedition to Fort Rosecrans} (2); Corning Glass Co.
(9); Clifford Charles Crump (4); Leland E. Cunningham (1)]
Box-folder 1.4
D -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (6 items)
Scope and Content Note
[J. A. Davidson (1); Arthur Louis Day (5)]
Box-folder 1.5
E -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (3 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Eimer and Amend Chemical Co. (1); Elgin National Watch Co. (2)]
Box-folder 1.6
F -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (25 items)
Scope and Content Note
[{?} Finley (4); Philip Fox (1); Edwin Brant Frost (20)]
Box-folder 1.7
G -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (14 items)
Scope and Content Note
[William Gaertner & Co. (5); General Electric Co. (7); Warren Kimball Green (2)]
Box-folder 1.8
H -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (41 items)
Scope and Content Note
[George Ellery Hale (1); Asaph Hall, Jr. (5); William Edmund Harper (1); Harper's
Magazine {incl. corresp. w/ Ellsworth Huntington} (7); George Russell Harrison (2);
Margaret Harwood (5); Russell M. Heath (1); S. G. Hefelbower (1); Henry Heil Chemical Co.
(6); Adam Hilger, Ltd. (1); Herbert Percival Hollnagel (3); Herbert Clark Hoover (1);
John M. Howie {incl copy ltr EP 6 Victor Clifton Alderson} (3); Wilbur Franklin Hoyt
{incl photo} (4)]
Box-folder 1.9
I -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (3 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Walter E. Inglis (3)]
Box-folder 1.10
K -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (4 items)
Scope and Content Note
[C. B. Kazda (1); John J. Kelley (2); Mrs. Elena C. Korthe {sp.?} (1)]
Box-folder 1.11
L -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (30 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Oliver Justin Lee (2); The Leeds & Northrup Co. (20); Walter F. Lineberger {incl.
corresp. w/ Smithsonian Institution} (6); The Littleton Co. (1); Knut Lundmark (2)]
Box-folder 1.12
M -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (12 items)
Scope and Content Note
[J. B. McDowell Co. (2); Donald Howard Menzel (7); John Anthony Miller (1); Robert
Andrews Millikan {form ltr announcing his leaving Chicago} (2)]
Box-folder 1.13
NORTH AMERICAN ALMANAC CO. (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (75 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Most of the correspondence is with Nile C. Smith.]
Box-folder 1.14
N -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (12 items)
Scope and Content Note
[National Association of Broadcasters (1); National Research Council (2); Finley F. Neal
(6); Seth Barnes Nicholson (3)]
Box-folder 1.15
O -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (28 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Optical Society of America {incl. corresp. w/ their Journal as well & typed ms. "The
Registering Microphotometer of the Mount Wilson Observatory"} (28)]
Box-folder 1.16
PETTIT -- PERSONAL (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (52 items)
Scope and Content Note
[See note in Administrative Information section for permission to use material in the
Pettit folders. Carnegie Institution of Washington (11); The Community Chest of Pasadena
(1); First National Bank, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (20); First Trust and Savings Bank (1);
Edward J. Fucik, M.D. (1); "Mother" Pettit (1); William M. Pettit (2); Harriet W.
Sheppard (1); Sigma Xi (2); Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (9); War Risk
Insurance (1); Wisconsin National Life Insurance Company (2)]
Box-folder 1.17
P -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (7 items)
Scope and Content Note
[John S. Paraskevopoulos (1); John A. Parkhurst {incl typed ms. "The Total Radiation of
Variable Stars Observed with the Vacuum Thermocouple at Mount Wilson"} (3); William Henry
Pickering (1); Popular Astronomy (2)]
Box-folder 1.18
R -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (7 items)
Scope and Content Note
[William F. Rigge (2); John A. Roebling's Sons Co. (2); Henry Norris Russell (3)]
Box-folder 1.19
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (22 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Science and Invention (2); Science Service (3); Sigma Xi (4); W. T. Skilling (6);
Southern California Edison Co. (1); Olenus Lee Sponsler (3); Joel Stebbins (1); The
Stupakoff Laboratories (1); Goodwin Deloss Swezey (1)]
Box-folder 1.20
T -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (5 items)
Scope and Content Note
[John Torrence Tate (3); George F. Taylor (1); Topeka Transfer & Storage Co. (1)]
Box-folder 1.21
U -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (5 items)
Scope and Content Note
[U.S. Radium Corp. (1); Universal Radio & Research Co. (1); University of California,
Southern Branch (1); University of Chicago (2)]
Box-folder 1.22
V -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (2 items)
Scope and Content Note
[George Van Biesbroeck (2)]
Box-folder 1.23
W -- MISCELLANEOUS (1920-1924)
Physical Description: (27 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Western Electric Co., Inc. (6); Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (3); Weston
Electrical Instrument Co. (2); Helen Whitaker (9); R. M. Wilkie (2); L. W. Wilson (2);
Wisconsin National Life Insurance Co. (2); The World Tomorrow (1)]
Box-folder 2.24
A -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (43 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Charles Greeley Abbot (17); Walter Sydney Adams (1); Robert Grant Aitken (4); Allyne &
Ward (2); American Astronomical Society {Joel Stebbins} (9); Clifford N. Anderson {incl.
typed ms. "Correlation of Radio Transmission with Ultra-Violet Radiation and Ozone"} (4);
Arrowhead Springs Corp. (1); Atlantic Photo-Co. (3); L. d'Azambuja (2)]
Box-folder 2.25
B -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (68 items)
Scope and Content Note
[J. E. Barnard (1); James Barnes (3); Bart Reflector Co., Inc. (3); L. Bastings (2);
Louis Agricola Bauer (12); Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (4); Louis Berman (2); Frances L.
(Mrs. Paul) Blatchford (3); Major J. E. Bloom (2); Boehmke Optical Co. (2); John D. Boon
(3); William T. Bovie (1); Jacques Boyer (1); Frederick Sumner Brackett (6); The Braun
Corp. (2); Julius Arthur Brown (6); Mrs. Margie Brown (1); Herbert Brownell (6); W.
Brunner {incl copy ltr from W. E. Bernheimer} (2); E. A. Bryant (3); Albert Alfred Buss
(4)]
Box-folder 2.26
C -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (24 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Jean Cabannes (2); Walter Guyton Cady (1); California Crushed Fruit Co. (2); California
Institute of Technology {John August Anderson} (1); E. Calzavara (2); James McKeen
Cattell {re search for Secretary of the Smithsonian} (1); Randolph M. Cermak (3); J. W.
D. Chesney (1); Sam M. Clark (2); Mrs. William Weber Coblentz (1); Collier's (2); Corning
Glass Works (2); J. W. Crabtree (2); A. C. D. Crommelin (2)]
Box-folder 2.27
THE DESERT SANATORIUM OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA, INC. (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (134 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Frank C. Balderry; A. M. Busby; Roland Davison; George Earl Davis; W. Paul Holbrook;
Daniel Trembly MacDougal; J. A. Sharpe; Creed Taylor; Bernard Langdon Wyatt]
Box-folder 2.28
D -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (34 items)
Scope and Content Note
[The Daven Corp. (2); J. E. Davis (1); Henry de Laszlo (1); C. E. Depperman, S.J. (5);
Detroit Public Schools, Dept. of Buildings and Grounds (2); City of Detroit, Dept. of
Buildings and Safety Engineering (1); G. M. B. Dobson (8); Andrew Ellicott Douglass (3);
Philip Drinker (2); Isabel H. Dudley (1); Raymond Smith Dugan (1); E. I. Du Pont de
Nemours & Co. (6)]
Box-folder 2.29
E -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (10 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Scott R. Edwards (2); Captain William Snyder Eichelberger {U.S. Naval Observatory} (1);
Engineers Society of Pasadena (2); John Marcus Evvard (5)]
Box-folder 2.30
F -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (45 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Charles Fabry (1); Mary J. Faherty (2); Sampaio Ferraz (2); Fish-Schurmann Corp. (7);
John Adam Fleming {American Geophysical Union} (5); William Elmer Forsythe {General
Electric Nela Park} (6); The Franklin Institute (2); Edward Elway Free (5); Erwin Finlay
Freunldich (1); Julien P. Friez & Sons (1); Edwin Brant Frost (13)]
Box-folder 2.31
G -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (45 items)
Scope and Content Note
[The Gaertner Scientific Corp.(15); Frederick Lamont Gates (3); General Electric Co.,
Research Laboratory (6); Kasson Stanford Gibson (1); Gleason-Tiebout Glass Co. (1); Mrs.
Lois K. Godfrey (3); Gooding College Forward Movement (1); Herman Goodman (1); A.
Gottlieb (1); C. R. Granberry {incl ltrs to/from D. T. MacDougal} (4); Henry J. Green
(2); B. L. Griffing (4); Mrs. H. F. Grigsby (2); Grimes-Stassforth Stationery Co. (1)]
Box-folder 2.32
H -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (73 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Asaph Hall, Jr. (1); L. R. Hafstad (1); Herbert A. Hamm (1); Hanovia Chemical &
Manufacturing Co. (23); R. I. Harris (1); Gilbert Havens (2); Earnest W. Hawkes (2); Fred
H. Heath (1); Bernard Clifford Hendricks (1); Adam Hilger, Ltd. (1); Leonard Hill (2);
Thorfin Rusten Hogness (3); Mrs. C. I. W. Hollister (2); William James Hooper (4); Frank
E. Howard (4); William Franklin Hoyt (18); Blythe Hurst, Sr. (6)]
Box-folder 2.33
I -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (9 items)
Scope and Content Note
[International Astronomical Union (3); H. J. C. Ireton (1); Clarke Irvine (2); James
Edmund Ives {U.S. Public Health Service} (3)]
Box-folder 2.34
J -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (5 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Josef J. Johnson (2); Roy Jordan, Inc. (2); Alfred Harrison Joy (1)]
Box-folder 2.35
K -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (31 items)
Scope and Content Note
[M. E. Kahler (1); Kay & Burbank Co., Inc. (1); Keese Engineering Co. (1); Norton Adams
Kent (2); Herbert Harvey Kimball {American Geophysical Union} (10); P. J. Kipp & Zonen
{incl. J. J. van Oortmerssen} (5); Alfred Brooker Klugh (6); H. Kobold (1); Harry I.
Krakeur [sp.?] (1); Jakob Kunz (3)]
Box-folder 2.36
L -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (21 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Claude Jerome Lapp (3); H. J. Larson (3); Francis P. Leavenworth (2); Oliver Justin Lee
(2); The Leeds & Northrup Co. (9); The Literary Digest (1); Leonard Benedict Loeb (1)]
Box-folder 3.37
M -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (60 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Daniel Trembly MacDougal (46); Mentore Maggini (2); Charles Frederick Marvin (2);
William James Mayo (1); John E. Mellish (3); John Campbell Merriam (3); I. M. Miller (3)]
Box-folder 3.38
THE NORTH AMERICAN ALMANAC COMPANY (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (56 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Most of the correspondence is with Nile C. Smith]
Box-folder 3.39
N -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (35 items)
Scope and Content Note
[The National Geographic Society (1); National Tuberculosis Association (22); Finley F.
Neal (3); Charles F. Neergaard (2); Mary Lawson Neff (3); Seth Barnes Nicholson (2); Hugo
Nilson (2)]
Box-folder 3.40
O -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (13 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Optical Society of America (10); Oregon Tuberculosis Association (1); F. H. Osler (2)]
Box-folder 3.41
PETTIT -- PERSONAL (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (20 items)
Scope and Content Note
[See note in Administrative Information section for permission to use material in the
Pettit folders. Carnegie Institution of Washington (10); H. Hallenbeck {re death of
George Pettit} (1); A. N. Marquis & Co. (1); Standard Book Co. (1); Teachers Insurance
and Annuity Association of America (3); Title Guarantee and Trust Co. (1); Who's Who in
California (2); Wisconsin National Life Insurance Co. (1)]
Box-folder 3.42
P -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (27 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Edwards A. Park (2); The Peruvian (1); Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (3); Edward F. Pigot,
S.J. (4); John Stanley Plaskett (1); Aldo Pontremoli (2); Popular Astronomy (2); Irwin
Gillespie Priest (10); J. C. du Pui (2)]
Box-folder 3.43
R -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (31 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Radi-Ion Corp. (1); Lord Rayleigh (3); Arthur R. Riddle (2); William F. Rigge, S.J. (4);
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1); R. S. Rockwood (5); Frank Elmore Ross
(10); Royal College of Science, Canada (1); Henry Norris Russell (2); Walter Charles
Russell (2)]
Box-folder 3.44
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (85 items)
Scope and Content Note
[W. R. Sawyer (2); Jan Schilt (1); Science and Invention (3); Science Service (1);
Scientific American (4); The Scientific Monthly (7); Charles G. Shannon (1); Harlow
Shapley (4); Forrest Shreve (4); Clarence Aurelius Skinner (2); Lois T. Slocum (2); D. F.
Smiley (3); Eugene H. Smith (4); Louis Bevier Spinney (1); Joel Stebbins (2); Harry
Steenbock (2); Harlan True Stetson (22); The Stratford Co. (1); Otto Struve (3); Agnes M.
Swain (1); Godfrey Glenton Sykes {many items re Desert Sanatorium} (15)]
Box-folder 3.45
T -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (13 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Charles Fitzhugh Talman (3); George Frederick Taylor (7); Frederick F. Tisdall (3)]
Box-folder 3.46
U -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (6 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Die Umschau (2); University of California, University News Service (1); University of
Chicago, Graduate School of Arts and Literature (2); University of Chicago Alumni
Association (1)]
Box-folder 3.47
V -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (35 items)
Scope and Content Note
[George Van Biesbroeck (2); The Viscoloid Works {DuPont Viscoloid Co.} (2); Vitaglass
Corp. {incl. William Wallace, Jr.} (31)]
Box-folder 3.48
W -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (56 items)
Scope and Content Note
[J. N. Walters (3); Louise Ware (1); Western Hospital and Nurses Review (13); Wheldon &
Wesley, Ltd. (1); Helen Whittaker [Wehe] (10); Who's Who Publishing Co. (1); Inez Wilson
(3); George Winchester (2); Wollensak Optical Co. (1); Harry Oscar Wood (1); R. M. Wood
(2); The World-Herald {w/ biographical material on Pettit} (2); Frederick Eugene Wright
(9); William Hammond Wright (4); Bernard Langdon Wyatt (3)]
Box-folder 3.49
Z -- MISCELLANEOUS (1925-1929)
Physical Description: (6 items)
Scope and Content Note
[J. G. Zaglakides (3); Carl Zeiss, Jena (1); Theodore F. Zucker (1); Robert Victor
Zumstein (1)]
Box-folder 4.50
A -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (31 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Charles Greeley Abbot (4); Robert Grant Aitken (6); Laurence Aller (1); American
Astronomical Society (1); American Society for Psychical Research {Glenn Palmer} (4);
George Angelovich (2); The Antithesians {re "mind energy" photography} (3); Astronomical
Society of the Pacific {Charles Hitchcock Adams, incl 2 typed mss. "Temperatures on the
Moon"} (8); Edward Ayling (2)]
Box-folder 4.51
B -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (25 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Frederick A. Baker (1); E. P. Baltzell (2); R. W. Barfield (3); M. S. Beljavsky (1);
Nels A. Bengton (1); George C. Blakslee (1); Nicholas Theodore Bobrovnikoff (3); The
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (3); Herbert Brownell (8); Robert C. Burt (1);
Julio Bustos Navarrete (1)]
Box-folder 4.52
C -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (18 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Canadian Pacific (1); Jos J Carlos Mills (5); Edna Carter (1); Frederic Edward Clements
(1); Harry Welrose Coffin (2); Corning Glass Works (1); Cosmos Corp. (3); J. W. Crabtree
(3); Crucible Steel Company of America (1)]
Box-folder 4.53
THE DESERT SANATORIUM OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA, INC. (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (40 items)
Scope and Content Note
[George Earl Davis; Joseph L. McCarthy; Max Pinner; 4 photographs]
Box-folder 4.54
D -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (9 items)
Scope and Content Note
[J. B. Dennis (2); C. E. Depperman, S.J. (3); Andrew Ellicott Douglass (2); Lee Alvin
DuBridge (2)]
Box-folder 4.55
F -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (23 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Hilda Faust (1); Sampaio Ferraz (1); Frederick Eugene Fowle (3); Mason Fraps (1); John
J. Frauenfelder (4); J. M. Frawley (2); Edward Elway Free (1); Edwin Brant Frost (10)]
Box-folder 4.56
G -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (10 items)
Scope and Content Note
[General Mills, Inc. (1); Arthur Feddeman Gorton (4); B. L. Griffing (2); Alfred D. Guion
(3)]
Box-folder 4.57
H -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (28 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Oscar A. Hagen (1); E. W. Hawkes (14); Bernard Clifford Hendricks (1); John Severy
Hibben (1); Alexander Hollander (1); John M. Howie (1); Philip F. Hoyt {re illness &
death of Wilbur F. Hoyt} (3); Wilbur Franklin Hoyt {one ltr w/ note from R. D. Overholt}
(6)]
Box-folder 4.58
I -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (9 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Industrial Digest (3); International Astronomical Union (3); Joseph C. Ireland (2);
James Edmund Ives (1)]
Box-folder 4.59
K -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (8 items)
Scope and Content Note
[J. L. Keane (2); Ernst Keil (2); Keystone View Co. of New York (1); Herbert Harvey
Kimball (1); Hoyt Klinck (2)]
Box-folder 4.60
L -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (10 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Carl Otto Lampland (1); Lancaster High School (1); Lancaster, New Hampshire {to
unidentified person re eclipse plans} (1); E. M. Lang, Jr. (2); Leeds & Northrup Co. (3);
Arthur Leslie (1); Gertrude Lofy (1)]
Box-folder 4.61
M -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (24 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Daniel Trembly MacDougal (3); T. O. McGrath (2); Col. Majors (1); Ross W. Marriott (2);
Donald Howard Menzel (10); Meteorological Office, Air Ministry (1); Joseph Haines Moore
(4); Laird M. Morris (1)]
Box-folder 4.62
THE NORTH AMERICAN ALMANAC CO. (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (27 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Most of the correspondence is with J. E. Chrest.]
Box-folder 4.63
N -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (6 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Clifford M. Ness (3); Seth Barnes Nicholson (3)]
Box-folder 4.64
O -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (17 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Optical Society of America (14); Bernard Levussove Oser {Food Research Laboratories,
Inc.} (3)]
Box-folder 4.65
PETTIT -- PERSONAL (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (31 items)
Scope and Content Note
[See note in Administrative Information section for permission to use material in the
Pettit folders. Baynham-Bunnell Co. (1); Boston Antique Shop (1); California Men of
Prominence, Ltd. (3); Richard F. Carlson Motors' Co. (1); Carnegie Institution of
Washington (3); The Casualty Association of America (1); Anne M. Goshen (1); Lillian
Headley (4); Mrs. Carrie E. [Preston] Herman (2); Rena Gash Leger (3); Pacific Finance
Corp. (1); Parsons & Nelson, Inc. (1); Lee Ad. Richmond (2); Teachers Insurance and
Annuity Association of America (2); United States Fire Insurance Co. of New York (1);
Walter [?] (1); Wisconsin National Life Insurance Co. (3)]
Box-folder 4.66
P -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (22 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Fifth Pacific Science Congress (1); Edwin Robert Parker (4); Edmund Parkinson (2);
Clarence T. Patterson (6); E. J. Perepelkin (2); Peru State Teachers College (1); Popular
Mechanics Magazine (3); D. Price (1); J. C. du Pui (2)]
Box-folder 4.67
R -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (7 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Hazel C. Reed (2); R. S. Rockwood (3); Edward A. Rumely (2)]
Box-folder 4.68
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (32 items)
Scope and Content Note
[The Scientific Monthly (3); George Cheever Shattuck (1); Forrest Shreve (4); Otto Julius
Sieplein (1); A. O. Smith Corp. (1); Maynard Goldman Snell (2); D. W. Starrett (5);
Gwendolyn Stead (3); Arthur H. Steinhaus (1); Harlan True Stetson (1); H. M. Strecker
(2); William Stoermer (2); E. F. Stroh (1); Otto Struve (1); Carl A. Stutsman (3);
Ransome Sutton (1)]
Box-folder 4.69
T -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (6 items)
Scope and Content Note
[The Texas Co., Road Map Division (1); L. R. Tillotson (2); Clyde William Tombaugh (1);
James C. Towle (2)]
Box-folder 4.70
V -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (2 items)
Scope and Content Note
[George Van Biesbroeck (2)]
Box-folder 4.71
W -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (35 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc. (5); Washburn College Alumni Association (1);
Henry G. Weaver (1); Western Hospital and Nurses Review {later Western Hospital Review}
(12); Helen Whitaker [Wehe] (1); Kenneth Williamson (1); M. H. Wodlinger (2); Frederick
Eugene Wright (10); William Hammond Wright (2)]
Box-folder 4.72
Z -- MISCELLANEOUS (1930-1932)
Physical Description: (2 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Mrs. Katherine Zager (2)]
Box-folder 5.73
A -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (24 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Charles Greeley Abbot (3); Giorgio Abetti (3); Robert Grant Aitken (5); American Council
on Education, Committee on Graduate Instruction (2); American Economic Foundation
{Percival White} (1); American Geophysical Union (5); American Philosophical Society (3);
H. J. Andrews (1); Apex Films Inc. (1); Astronomical Society of the Pacific {Paul Willard
Merrill} (1)]
Box-folder 5.74
B -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (34 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Bell & Howell Co. (1); Nels August Bengston (3); H. E. M. Bernhard (1); Walter E.
Bernheimer (2); Charles A. Bothamley (2); J. Staley Brode (4); Gertrude Brownell [Randal]
(2); Herbert Brownell (2); M. M. [Mrs. Herbert] Brownell (3); S. M. Brownell (2); L. V.
Burton (7); Julio Bustos Navarrete (3); Byrd Antarctic Expedition II (2)]
Box-folder 5.75
C -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (30 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Arthur Hawthorne Carhart (2); Carnegie Institution of Washington, Division of
Publications (5); Carthage College (7); Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1); [?] Clark (1);
William Weber Coblentz (2); Joseph P. Cranston (1); Crater Lake National Park (1); Eugene
Casson Crittenden (3); Clifford Crump (4); Heber Doust Curtis (1); The Cushman Chuck Co.
(2)]
Box-folder 5.76
D -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (15 items)
Scope and Content Note
[George Earl Davis (3); Mark W. Delzell {re death of Herbert Brownell} (2); F. Napier
Denison (3); The Detroit News (1); Edward R. Dewey (1); Andrew Ellicott Douglass (2); The
Drem Products Corp. {see also Photo Utilities, Inc.} (2); Raymond Smith Dugan (1)]
Box-folder 5.77
E -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (8 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Eastman Kodak Co. (2); Pio Emanuelli (3); Howard Erwood (2); Roger Shepherd Estey (1)]
Box-folder 5.78
F -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (8 items)
Scope and Content Note
[J. W. Fecker (1); Warren F. Fox (3); The Friend (4)]
Box-folder 5.79
G -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (5 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Everett Grant (4); Ross Gunn (1)]
Box-folder 5.80
H -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (50 items)
Scope and Content Note
[F. H. Hagner {Position Finder Corp.} (7); Charles E. Hall (2); Hanovia Chemical &
Manufacturing Co. (1); Hartford, Connecticut, Board of Education (1); Samuel G.
Hefelbower {much re Carthage College} (18); Bernard Clifford Hendricks (5); [?] Henson
(1); Samuel G. Hibben {Westinghouse Lamp Co.} (2); Edgar Higgins (2); W. J. Hitchcock
(4); Holmes Projector Co. (2); John M. Howie (4); The Huntington Library (1)]
Box-folder 5.81
I -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (17 items)
Scope and Content Note
[International Astronomical Union {incl. G. Abetti, L. d'Azambuja, & W. Brunner} (13);
First International Congress of Cosmobiology (1); International Geodesic and Geophysical
Union (3)]
Box-folder 5.82
J -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (3 items)
Scope and Content Note
[James Manufacturing Co. (2); C. Mackenzie Jones (1)]
Box-folder 5.83
K -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (4 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Philip Childs Keenan (4)]
Box-folder 5.84
L -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (16 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Frederick Charles Leonard (5); Isabel M. Lewis (2); Library Association of Portland,
Oregon (1); W. M. Lindley (3); The Literary Digest {draft of letter to O. C. Nichols on
back} (1); Los Angeles Astronomical Society {Mars F. Baumgardt} (1); Hazel Marie Losh
(3)]
Box-folder 5.85
MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (11 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Mainly letters & telegrams to/from staff at Mt. Wilson sent while Pettit was spending
the summers at Yerkes Observatory. Walter Sydney Adams; Elizabeth Connor; Edison R. Hoge;
Anne McConnel; Elizabeth E. Sternberg; Louise Ware]
Box-folder 5.86
M -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (90 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Daniel Trembly McDougal (2); Thomas Orrin McGrath (4); Francis C. McMath (1); Robert
Raynolds McMath (45); Alvin Greene McNish (3); Orin E. Madison (2); Aaron Edwin Margulis
(8); Emmett Virgil Martin (3); Louise W. Mears (1); Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (9); John
Campbell Merriam (4); [British] Meteorological Office (1); H. David Michener {re Robert
Dietz} (1); Milwaukee Journal Tour Club (1); Samuel Alfred Mitchell (3); Edwin Moll (1);
John R. Mote (1)]
Box-folder 5.87
N -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (15 items)
Scope and Content Note
[The National Education Association of the United States {re J. W. Crabtree} (8); Col.
Ode C. Nichols (2); Seth Barnes Nicholson (4); Nu-Art Filmco (1)]
Box-folder 5.88
O -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (8 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Brian O'Brien (2); Optical Society of America {some re R. R. McMath} (6)]
Box-folder 5.89
PETTIT -- PERSONAL (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (48 items)
Scope and Content Note
[See note in Administrative Information section for permission to use material in the
Pettit folders. The Athenaeum (1); Birmingham Motor Sales, Inc. (1); John L. Blair {New
Process Co.} (2); Carnegie Institution of Washington (6); Cranbrook School (1); Crater
Lake National Park (1); Crawford-Dawe-Grove Agency (2); T. M. Evans (1); Farmers
Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange (1); The Fuller Brush Co. (1); Lillian Headley (1);
Internal Revenue Service (2); Rena W. Leger (3); Alma Pettit (3); John W. Pettit (2);
Leonard Pettit (3); The Robert Phillipps Co. (6); Mabel Raymond (1); San Francisco
pamphlet (1); Florence L. Sawyer (2); Title Guarantee and Trust Co. (1); Union Pacific
Railroad Co. (2); United States Fire Insurance Co. {Sadler & Holmes Insurance} (1);
Katherine Louise Van Wyck {draft of letter to Walter Whitney on back} (1); W. V. Wiegand
(1); Wisconsin National Life Insurance Co. (1)]
Box-folder 5.90
P -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (17 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Pacific Library Binding Co.(2); Pacific Metals Co., Ltd. (1); City of Pasadena (2);
Robert Methven Petrie (3); Philippine Islands Weather Bureau (1); Photo Utilities, Inc.
(1); Mary Pickford (1); Pickford-Lasky Productions, Inc. (1); H. H. Porter, Jr. (2);
Thomas Charles Poulter (2); D. Price (1)]
Box-folder 5.91
R -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (11 items)
Scope and Content Note
[R & M Electric Sign, Co. (1); Radio Press Service (1); Paul Rudnick (2); C. F. Rust (7)]
Box-folder 5.92
SUNNY SCHICK (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (20 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Sunny Schick was a brokerage house for photographic & cinematic equipment, film, lamps,
etc.]
Box-folder 5.93
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (85 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Linn W. Scherer (2); Scientific American {Albert G. Ingalls} (2); Frederick Hanley
Seares (4); Ralph M. Shaw, Jr. (2); Erle V. Simon (3); W. T. Skilling (6); Frederick
Slocum (8); Dorothy Smith (2); The Society for Research on Meteorites (1); Theodore
Eugene Sterne (1); Harlan True Stetson (4); F. J. M. Stratton (5); Henry Frederick
Strohecker (2); John Donovan Strong (1); Otto Struve (38); Goodwin Deloss Swezey (4)]
Box-folder 5.94
T -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (9 items)
Scope and Content Note
[W. Taverner (3); Theodore F. Tarbox (2); Samuel E. Traudt (2); Gertrude Ogden Tubby (2)]
Box-folder 5.95
U -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (1 item)
Scope and Content Note
[U.S. Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents (1)]
Box-folder 5.96
V -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (4 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Vard Mechanical Laboratory (1); Carl E. Veach (1); Victor Animatograph Co. (1); M.
Volochine (1)]
Box-folder 5.97
W -- MISCELLANEOUS (1933-1937)
Physical Description: (57 items)
Scope and Content Note
[K. P. Walton {Back-Yard Astronomer's Society} (3); The Warner & Swasey Co. (2); Ph.
WehrlJ (1); S. T. Welchover (2); Whitehead & Kales Co. (3); Walter Ticknor Whitney (4);
D. P. Wilson (2); Leonard William Wing (3); Wollensak Optical Co. (1); The World Calendar
Association, Inc. (2); Frederick Eugene Wright (34)]
Box-folder 6.98
A -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (53 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Giorgio Abetti (5); Adler Planetarium (3); Aircraft Radio Laboratory, War Department
(2); Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. (5); American Association of Scientific Workers (2);
American Astronomical Society {Joel Stebbins} (1); "American Defense" {California
Institute, Huntington Library, Mount Wilson Observatory Group} (1); American Geophysical
Union {Charles Franklin Brooks, ltr re C. G. Abbot's proposal --incl carbons of ltrs
from: Helmut Landsberg, Larry F. Page, Harlan True Stetson, Homer Woodworth Clough, &
Chaim Leib Pekeris} (10); American Peoples Encyclopedia (11); Clifford Norman Anderson
{incl typed ms "A Representation of the Sunspot Cycle", copy ltr from John Adam Fleming,
& copy typed ms. "Solar Radiation and Geomagnetism," by J. Bartels} (6); L. E. Armfield
(2); Betty June Arnold (2); Astronomical Society of the Pacific (2); L. d'Azambuja (1)]
Box-folder 6.99
B -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (54 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Louis C. Barail (1); Barber-Colman Co. (1); Pierre Basmaison (6); Mars Baumgardt (1);
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (8); Nels August Bengtson (1); Biographical Encyclopedia of the
World (1); Anna Jean Blackstad {Pomona College} (1); The Blakiston Co. (2); Harold
Francis Blum (2); John S. Bordner (1); Braun Corp. (1); J. Stanley Brode (1); Frederick
Augustus Brooks (18); Charles E. R. Bruce (5); Harris L. Burnett (2); Vannevar Bush (2)]
Box-folder 6.100
C -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (32 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Calexico Engineering Works (1); California Institute of Technology {re Edna Carter} (2);
John William Campbell {incl ltr from Ernest Sydney Keeping to E.P.} (3); Leon Campbell
(8); Robert M. Campbell {a.k.a. Roupert Rivierre} (5); Carnegie Institution of Washington
{incl ltrs re Exhibit Committee & from V. Bush} (7); Tommy Cave (2); Alvan Clark & Sons
Co. (1); Columbia Broadcasting System (1); Consolidated Book Publishers (1); Heber Doust
Curtis {copy ltr to G. V. Krishnaswami} (1)]
Box-folder 6.101
D -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (11 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Dover Publications (2); Dow Radio Supply Co. (1); Theodore Dreiser (3); Ducommun Metals
and Supply Co. (3); Theodore Dunham, Jr. (2)]
Box-folder 6.102
E -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (28 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Eastbay Astronomical Association (6); Eastman Kodak Co. (5); Levantia V. Eaton (2);
Egyptian Lacquer Manufacturing Co. (1); L. C. Eichner (2); John W. Evans (7); Mrs. Marion
H. Evans (1); The Ex-Marine Guards, Inc. {re Lotan S. King} (2)]
Box-folder 6.103
F -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (7 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Federation of Natural Sciences of Southern California (1); R. Y. Ferner Co. (1);
Fish-Schurman Corp. (2); Clyde Fisher {Hayden Planetarium} (1); John Adam Fleming (2)]
Box-folder 6.104
G -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (9 items)
Scope and Content Note
[The Gaertner Scientific Corp. (1); Fred M. Garland (2); Girard-Perregaux (1); Glendale
Public Library (2); Richard Halsey Goddard (1); Arthur W. Graham, Jr. (2)]
Box-folder 6.105
H -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (68 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Carl Halvarson (2); Julie M. Vinter Hansen {incl corespondence with Astronomical Society
of the Pacific} (7); Arthur Cobb Hardy (1); Ezra Clarence Harrah (7); Robert Torrens Hatt
(2); Ruth E. Hayner (4); Rosemary Heckelman (2); Samuel G. Hefelbower (7); Neal J. Heines
(10); Bernard Clifford Hendricks (1); Carl Hinshaw {incl. form ltr from "American
Defense"} (3); Bert Hollenbee (1); Holmes Projector Co. (1); H. J. Holmquest (2);
Houghton-Mifflin Co. (1); John M. Howie (3); Edward Olson Hulburt (3); H. R. Hulme (3);
Ellsworth Huntington (2); Charles W. Hurd (6)]
Box-folder 6.106
I -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (1 item)
Scope and Content Note
[Herschel C. Ice (1)]
Box-folder 6.107
J -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (12 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Theodore Siegumfeldt Jacobsen (2); Jean Jacques (2); Harry Raymond James (1); Frank
Covert Jean (6); Clinton K. Judy (1)]
Box-folder 6.108
K -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (5 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Gerard Peter Kuiper (5)]
Box-folder 6.109
L -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (58 items)
Scope and Content Note
[William Charles Lamb (3); Helmut Landsberg (3); Harold H. Lane (1); Leach Relay Co. (1);
Oliver Justin Lee (2); Frederick Charles Leonard (2); Israel Monroe Levitt (3); Life
Magazine (3); Earle Garfield Linsley (19); Rudolph Martin Lippert (15); Rollin M. Lobaugh
(1); Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd. (3); Los Angeles Astronomical Society (1); Los Angeles
Examiner (1)]
Box-folder 6.110
M -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (58 items)
Scope and Content Note
[G. Kent McCauley (2); Duncan E. Macdonald (2); Mrs. Elizabeth McGaffey (2); McGraw-Hill
Book Co., Inc. (2); Andrew McKellar (1); Robert Raynolds McMath (19); The MacMillan Co.
(3); Mrs. Allison Marti (1); L. A. Matheson (1); John Campbell Merriam (2);
Meteorological Ofice, South Kensington, London (1); Meteorological Office, Stonehouse,
Gloucestershire (1); William Ferdinand Meyer (1); John T. Middleton (2); George Wilber
Moffitt {re Optical Society of America} (8); Mrs. A. T. Monk (2); Paul Mooney (1);
William D. Morgan (7)]
Box-folder 6.111
N -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (13 items)
Scope and Content Note
[A. L. Narayan (2); National Geographic Magazine (2); Nelson's Encyclopedia (6); Archie
M. Newton (1); Seth Barnes Nicholson (2)]
Box-folder 6.112
O -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (6 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Office of Scientific Resarch and Development {Mina Rees} (1); Optical Society of America
(1); Maury Osborne (2); S. L. Osborne (2)]
Box-folder 6.113
PETTIT -- PERSONAL (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (34 items)
Scope and Content Note
[See note in Administrative Information section for permission to use material in the
Pettit folders. Carnegie Institution of Washington (11); Cranbrook School (2); Lena
Freiday-Scott (2); H. Hallenbeck (2); Munger & Munger (1); Nemaha County, Nebraska,
Clerk's Office (1); Charles A. O'Connor (1); City of Pasadena (1); Helen Pettit (3);
Leonard Pettit (2); Sadler and Holmes (2); Science Service (2); Teachers Insurance and
Annuity Association of America (1); Veterans Administration (2); Walter [?] {cousin} (1)]
Box-folder 6.114
P -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (22 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Pacific Library Binding Co. (2); Pantechnical Manufacturing Co. (1); Pasadena Defense
Council (1); Pasadena Jumior College (1); John Benjamin Penniston {Printed Matter} (1);
Robert Methven Petrie (4); William F. Petersen (2); Karl D. Pettit (2); The Pointer (3);
Polaroid Corp. (3); Henry Leroy Pugh (2)]
Box-folder 6.115
R -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (13 items)
Scope and Content Note
[R[adio] C[orporation of] A[merica] Communications, Inc. (2); Emery L. Radwany (2); Lee
Ad. Richmond (2); Walter Orr Roberts (3); Henry Norris Russell (4)]
Box-folder 6.116
S -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (97 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Mrs. Beth Satterthwaite (2); Harold E. Sawyer (3); J. G. Schott (1); Science (3);
Science Service (1); The Scientific Monthly (3); F. J. Sellers (4); Charles Donald Shane
(1); John T. Shannon (3); Albert V. Shatzel (8); Victor Ernest Shelford (3); James M.
Sheridan (2); Jessie May Short (1); W. T. Skilling (16); The Sky (1); Sky and Telescope
(2); Earl Carl Slipher (1); Harry F. Smejkal (1); Dana Smith (3); Walter Soller (3); The
Sponge Rubber Products Co. (1); Joel Stebbins (2); Theodore Eugene Sterne (8); Harlan
True Stetson (3); F. J. M. Stratton (2); Otto Struve (12); Sunny Schick (4); Polydore
Swings (3)]
Box-folder 6.117
T -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (7 items)
Scope and Content Note
[A. David Thackeray (2); John Troxell (1); Franklin Marion Turrell (4)]
Box-folder 6.118
U -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (22 items)
Scope and Content Note
[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers {re Pettit's involvement with Atomic Bomb Project} (16);
U.S. Naval Observatory (2); University of Santa Clara {re Mount Lowe telescope} (2);
Albrecht Unsold (2)]
Box-folder 6.119
V -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (2 items)
Scope and Content Note
[George Van Biesbroeck (2)]
Box-folder 6.120
W -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (48 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Margaret Walker (3); Waltham Watch Co. (2); K. P. Walton (3); Louise Ware (1); Arthur
Howard Warner {re E= meeting} (3); Earle Horace Warner (5); Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
(1); David Warshaw {incl. corresp. w/ John Adam Fleming} (5); Harold Weaver (1); B.
Westermann Co., Inc. (1); Western Electric Co. {re Lewis B. Browder} (2); The Western
Union Telegraph Co. (2); Walter Ticknor Whitney (2); John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2); Robley
Cook Williams (1); Virginia Lucille Williams (2); George Winchester (2); Leonard William
Wing (2); Wisconsin Department of Agriculture (1); Rev. W. Rees Wright (4); Oliver
Reynolds Wulf (2); James V. Wyber (1)]
Box-folder 6.121
Y -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (1 item)
Scope and Content Note
[Anne S. Young (1)]
Box-folder 6.122
Z -- MISCELLANEOUS (1938-1946)
Physical Description: (2 items)
Scope and Content Note
[Walter W. Zimmerman (2)]
Box-folder 6.123
The Application of Vacuum Thermocouples to Astronomical Problems
Scope and Content Note
[copy, typed ms., 3 pp. {with Seth Barnes Nicholson}]
Box-folder 6.124)
Distance Along Tape from Trunion of Thezac Porsmers Lens to Circle of Given Intensity
Scope and Content Note
[pencil graph, 1 p.]
Box-folder 6.125)
Focal Changes Produced by Temperature Changes in Coelostat Mirrors
Scope and Content Note
[copy, typed ms., 2 pp. {for Annual Report, 1922}]
Box-folder 6.126
Limiting Accuracy of the Micrometer Caliper
Scope and Content Note
[copy, typed ms. w/ corrections, 2 pp.]
Box-folder 6.127
Measurement of Ultra-Violet Solar Radiation at Mount Wilson
Scope and Content Note
[copy, typed ms., 2 pp.]
Box-folder 6.128
The Possible Escape of Prominences from the Sun
Scope and Content Note
[2 copies, typed ms., 3 pp. each]
Box-folder 6.129
Stellar Radiation
Scope and Content Note
[pencil ms., 2 pp. {with Seth Barnes Nicholson}]
BOX 6: BY HAROLD DELOS BABCOCK
Box-folder 6.130
A Measurement of the Solar Limb Effect (Abstract)
Scope and Content Note
[copy, typed ms., 1 p.]
