Observatory housing the Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory,...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The facility, property of the University of Texas at Austin, is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. The obse... More
University of Mississippi, Barnard Observatory, University Circle, Oxf...
Survey number: HABS MS-243 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001607
Portland Observatory, 138 Congress Street, Portland, Cumberland County...
Suggested address, 138 Congress Street, is not verifiable in documentation. Significance: The Portland Observatory is a maritime signal tower located on Munjoy Hill. It remains at its original location, althoug... More
Portland Observatory, 138 Congress Street, Portland, Cumberland County...
Suggested address, 138 Congress Street, is not verifiable in documentation. Significance: The Portland Observatory is a maritime signal tower located on Munjoy Hill. It remains at its original location, althoug... More
Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Rutgers University Observatory, George Street, New Brunswick, Middlese...
Significance: First building at Rutgers erected exclusively for scientific purposes. Dedicated June 18, 1866. Survey number: HABS NJ-723 Building/structure dates: 1866 Initial Construction
Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism,...
Significance: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, with funds provided by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, established the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 9 DTM) in 1904 to survey and me... More
Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory, 100 De Sellum Avenue, Gaithersburg,...
Significance: Research on the dynamics of rotating bodies conducted by the Swiss mathematician Leohardt Euler, ca. 1770, first suggested that the solid body of the earth might wobble slightly on its axis of rot... More
University of Mississippi, Barnard Observatory, University Circle, Oxf...
Survey number: HABS MS-243 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001607
Old Naval Observatory, Twenty-Third & E Streets Northwest, Washington,...
Significance: One of the federal government's earliest and most important scientific ventures. First superintendent of the observatory, Matthew F. Maury, gained international fame for his oceanographic and ast... More
Maria Mitchell Observatory, 3 Vestal Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
Significance: On July 15, 1908, the Observatory on Vestal Street was dedicated in honor of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a disting... More
Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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University of Alabama, Observatory, Stadium Drive & Fifth Street, Tusc...
Survey number: HABS AL-231 Building/structure dates: 1844 Initial Construction
University of Alabama, Observatory, Stadium Drive & Fifth Street, Tusc...
Survey number: HABS AL-231 Building/structure dates: 1844 Initial Construction
Western Reserve Academy, Loomis Observatory, Western Reserve Universit...
Significance: The Loomis Observatory was the first to be built west of the Allegheny Mountains being first used September 8, 1838. It is now the second oldest on the American continent. It was designed by and b... More
Western Reserve Academy, Loomis Observatory, Western Reserve Universit...
Significance: The Loomis Observatory was the first to be built west of the Allegheny Mountains being first used September 8, 1838. It is now the second oldest on the American continent. It was designed by and b... More
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Clingmans Dome Ro...
Significance: Clingmans Dome Road provides access to Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at 6,642'. The road follows the main ridge of the Smokies, offering views into ... More
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Clingmans Dome Ro...
Significance: Clingmans Dome Road provides access to Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at 6,642'. The road follows the main ridge of the Smokies, offering views into ... More
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Clingmans Dome Ro...
Significance: Clingmans Dome Road provides access to Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at 6,642'. The road follows the main ridge of the Smokies, offering views into ... More
Birthplace of Astrophysics, the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observa...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Amherst College, Lawrence Observatory, Route 116, Amherst, Hampshire C...
Significance: The observatory was the first building erected by the college exclusively for scientific pursuits. Survey number: HABS MA-1233 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction Building/struc... More
Amherst College, Lawrence Observatory, Route 116, Amherst, Hampshire C...
Significance: The observatory was the first building erected by the college exclusively for scientific pursuits. Survey number: HABS MA-1233 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction Building/struc... More
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Roads, Volcano, Hawaii County, HI
See Thurston Lava Tube, HALS HI-6, for additional documentation. Significance: The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park road system provides access to active volcanoes and related landscapes along with varied ecosyst... More
Portland Observatory, 138 Congress Street, Portland, Cumberland County...
Suggested address, 138 Congress Street, is not verifiable in documentation. Significance: The Portland Observatory is a maritime signal tower located on Munjoy Hill. It remains at its original location, althoug... More
Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
Significance: A major American astronomical observatory since 1888, the Lick Observatory was built with a bequest of $700.00 left by James Lick (1796-1876), a real estate entrepreneur and mill owner. Since 188... More
Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
Significance: A major American astronomical observatory since 1888, the Lick Observatory was built with a bequest of $700.00 left by James Lick (1796-1876), a real estate entrepreneur and mill owner. Since 188... More
Boswell Observatory, Doane College, Crete, Saline County, NE
1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Boswell Observatory, constructed in 1883-84, was the second building to be built on the Doane College campus in Crete, Nebraska. It is a small building w... More
Boswell Observatory, Doane College, Crete, Saline County, NE
1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Boswell Observatory, constructed in 1883-84, was the second building to be built on the Doane College campus in Crete, Nebraska. It is a small building w... More
Lowell Observatory, 1400 West Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, Coconino Coun...
Significance: Founded in 1894, by Bostonian Percival Lowell in Flagstaff, it is an important landmark in the history of astronomy. The observatory's unique historic structures stand as examples of changing tech... More
Western Reserve Academy, Loomis Observatory, Western Reserve Universit...
Significance: The Loomis Observatory was the first to be built west of the Allegheny Mountains being first used September 8, 1838. It is now the second oldest on the American continent. It was designed by and b... More
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Roads, Volcano, Hawaii County, HI
See Thurston Lava Tube, HALS HI-6, for additional documentation. Significance: The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park road system provides access to active volcanoes and related landscapes along with varied ecosyst... More
Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism,...
Significance: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, with funds provided by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, established the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 9 DTM) in 1904 to survey and me... More
Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Boswell Observatory, Doane College, Crete, Saline County, NE
1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Boswell Observatory, constructed in 1883-84, was the second building to be built on the Doane College campus in Crete, Nebraska. It is a small building w... More
Western Reserve Academy, Loomis Observatory, Western Reserve Universit...
Significance: The Loomis Observatory was the first to be built west of the Allegheny Mountains being first used September 8, 1838. It is now the second oldest on the American continent. It was designed by and b... More
Western Reserve Academy, Loomis Observatory, Western Reserve Universit...
Significance: The Loomis Observatory was the first to be built west of the Allegheny Mountains being first used September 8, 1838. It is now the second oldest on the American continent. It was designed by and b... More
One of two buildings at the Cincinnati Observatory, sometimes called t...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Observatory housing the Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory,...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The facility, property of the University of Texas at Austin, is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. The obse... More
Maria Mitchell Observatory, 3 Vestal Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
Significance: On July 15, 1908, the Observatory on Vestal Street was dedicated in honor of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a disting... More
Boswell Observatory, Doane College, Crete, Saline County, NE
1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Boswell Observatory, constructed in 1883-84, was the second building to be built on the Doane College campus in Crete, Nebraska. It is a small building w... More
Distant view of one of the stellar observatories at the McDonald Obser...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The facility, property of the University of Texas at Austin, is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. The obse... More
Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Dartmouth College, Shattuck Observatory, Hanover, Grafton County, NH
Significance: This building, one of the earlier buildings at Dartmouth, is a largely unchanged example of a small, simple observatory. It was built for Dartmouth's prominent astronomer, Professor Ira Young, an... More
An astronomical observatory on Mars : note
In this document, Carl Sagan suggests "an astronomical observatory on Mars would permit observations of astronomical parallaxes to be improved by about fifty percent." From Carl Sagan's "ideas riding" files, a ... More
Portland Observatory, 138 Congress Street, Portland, Cumberland County...
Suggested address, 138 Congress Street, is not verifiable in documentation. Significance: The Portland Observatory is a maritime signal tower located on Munjoy Hill. It remains at its original location, althoug... More
Western Reserve Academy, Loomis Observatory, Western Reserve Universit...
Significance: The Loomis Observatory was the first to be built west of the Allegheny Mountains being first used September 8, 1838. It is now the second oldest on the American continent. It was designed by and b... More
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Clingmans Dome Ro...
Significance: Clingmans Dome Road provides access to Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at 6,642'. The road follows the main ridge of the Smokies, offering views into ... More
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Roads, Volcano, Hawaii County, HI
See Thurston Lava Tube, HALS HI-6, for additional documentation. Significance: The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park road system provides access to active volcanoes and related landscapes along with varied ecosyst... More
Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Boswell Observatory, Doane College, Crete, Saline County, NE
1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Boswell Observatory, constructed in 1883-84, was the second building to be built on the Doane College campus in Crete, Nebraska. It is a small building w... More
Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory, 100 De Sellum Avenue, Gaithersburg,...
Significance: Research on the dynamics of rotating bodies conducted by the Swiss mathematician Leohardt Euler, ca. 1770, first suggested that the solid body of the earth might wobble slightly on its axis of rot... More
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Clingmans Dome Ro...
Significance: Clingmans Dome Road provides access to Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at 6,642'. The road follows the main ridge of the Smokies, offering views into ... More
Distant view of two facilities at the McDonald Observatory on Mount Lo...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The observatory is now controlled by the University of Texas at Austin. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in... More
Old Naval Observatory, Twenty-Third & E Streets Northwest, Washington,...
Significance: One of the federal government's earliest and most important scientific ventures. First superintendent of the observatory, Matthew F. Maury, gained international fame for his oceanographic and ast... More
Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
Significance: A major American astronomical observatory since 1888, the Lick Observatory was built with a bequest of $700.00 left by James Lick (1796-1876), a real estate entrepreneur and mill owner. Since 188... More
Boswell Observatory, Doane College, Crete, Saline County, NE
1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Boswell Observatory, constructed in 1883-84, was the second building to be built on the Doane College campus in Crete, Nebraska. It is a small building w... More
Lowell Observatory, 1400 West Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, Coconino Coun...
Significance: Founded in 1894, by Bostonian Percival Lowell in Flagstaff, it is an important landmark in the history of astronomy. The observatory's unique historic structures stand as examples of changing tech... More
Mt. Hamilton and Lick Observatory, California
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The observatory at Adams State University, founded in 1921 as a "norma...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Contrary to the assumptions of several observers and visitors, the university is not named either of the Adamses who served as U.S. pr... More
The Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory, an astronomical obs...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The facility, property of the University of Texas at Austin, is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. The obse... More
One of two buildings at the Cincinnati Observatory, sometimes called t...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Roads, Volcano, Hawaii County, HI
See Thurston Lava Tube, HALS HI-6, for additional documentation. Significance: The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park road system provides access to active volcanoes and related landscapes along with varied ecosyst... More
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Roads, Volcano, Hawaii County, HI
See Thurston Lava Tube, HALS HI-6, for additional documentation. Significance: The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park road system provides access to active volcanoes and related landscapes along with varied ecosyst... More
Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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Lowell Observatory, Slipher Building, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, ...
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University of Alabama, Observatory, Stadium Drive & Fifth Street, Tusc...
Survey number: HABS AL-231 Building/structure dates: 1844 Initial Construction
Rutgers University Observatory, George Street, New Brunswick, Middlese...
Significance: First building at Rutgers erected exclusively for scientific purposes. Dedicated June 18, 1866. Survey number: HABS NJ-723 Building/structure dates: 1866 Initial Construction
Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory, 100 De Sellum Avenue, Gaithersburg,...
Significance: Research on the dynamics of rotating bodies conducted by the Swiss mathematician Leohardt Euler, ca. 1770, first suggested that the solid body of the earth might wobble slightly on its axis of rot... More
Two of the star-and sun-gazing structures at the McDonald Observatory,...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The facility, property of the University of Texas at Austin, is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. The obse... More
The Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory, an astronomical obs...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The facility, property of the University of Texas at Austin, is located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. The obse... More
Maria Mitchell Observatory, 3 Vestal Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...
Significance: On July 15, 1908, the Observatory on Vestal Street was dedicated in honor of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a disting... More
Rutgers University Observatory, George Street, New Brunswick, Middlese...
Significance: First building at Rutgers erected exclusively for scientific purposes. Dedicated June 18, 1866. Survey number: HABS NJ-723 Building/structure dates: 1866 Initial Construction
Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
Significance: A major American astronomical observatory since 1888, the Lick Observatory was built with a bequest of $700.00 left by James Lick (1796-1876), a real estate entrepreneur and mill owner. Since 188... More
Boswell Observatory, Doane College, Crete, Saline County, NE
1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Boswell Observatory, constructed in 1883-84, was the second building to be built on the Doane College campus in Crete, Nebraska. It is a small building w... More