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Observatory Hill, Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

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Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism,...

Significance: The Atomic Physics Observatory (APO) was completed in 1938 to improve the capability of measuring the earth's magnetic fields which was undertaken by the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Depar... More

McDonald Observatory, operated by the University of Texas at Austin, a...

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Aerial view of Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California

The land surrounding the observatory was donated to the City of Los Angeles by Colonel Griffith J. Griffith. He also donated funds to build an observatory, exhibit hall, and planetarium. The building design was... More

Observatory housing the Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory,...

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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

[Rooftop astronomical observatory in Danzig, Germany]

Illus. in: Machinae coelestis pars prior[-posterior]. Gedani : Auctoris typis & sumptibus imprimebat S. Reiniger, 1673-79. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leon... More

[Devil's Lake from Observatory Hill, Wisconsin]

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[Devil's Lake from Observatory Hill, Wisconsin]

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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

Observatory tent, N. A. [i.e., North American] Boundary Commission

Photograph shows Captain Charles J. Darrah, R.E., seated in tent, and Captain Robert W. Haig, R.A. of the British North American Boundary Commission posed at an astronomical observation tent with theodolite, du... More

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, Pluto Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

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

Eastman, Prof. Naval Observatory. Glass Plate Negative, American Civil...

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Battle-field Observatory, East Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg

Stereo copyrighted by W.H. Tipton & Co., Gettysburg, Pa. No. 717. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pa. G- 1878; Photog. I.; Observatories (Gettysburg, Pa.); U... More

[Exterior of Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.] / copyrighted and ph...

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Naval Observatory, [Washington, D.C.], Longitude houses for determinin...

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Fuertes Observatory, 209 Cradit Farm Drive, Ithaca, Tompkins County, N...

2011 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: Fuertes Astronomical Observatory, Located at Cornell University on a hill overlooking the North Shore of Beebe Lake, has provided many generations of student... More

Naval Observatory. Main entrance of administration building, Naval Obs...

Photograph shows the administration building at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

View from McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas

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University of Mississippi, Barnard Observatory, University Circle, Oxf...

Survey number: HABS MS-243 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001607

University of Mississippi, Barnard Observatory, University Circle, Oxf...

Survey number: HABS MS-243 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001607

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

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

Panoramic view of St. Petersburg, dedicated by permission to his Imper...

Harbor with boats and cultural buildings, including the Hermitage and the Marble and Winter Palaces.

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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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

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

Lowell Observatory, Pluto Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

Lowell Observatory, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

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

University of Michigan, Detroit Observatory, Observatory & Ann Streets...

Significance: The 1853-54 Detroit Observatory was one of the nation's first astronomical houses. It contains the 12-1/2 inch refracting telescope, which was once the largest refractor in the nation and the thi... More

[The Observatory, Ann Arbor, Mich.]

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Pomfret School Alumni House Observatory, Pomfret, Connecticut

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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

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

U. of M., Ann Arbor, the Observatory

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[The Observatory, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.]

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[Telescope at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts ...

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Children Snowballing Near Observatory, St. Louis (Shaw's) Botanical Ga...

Observatory in background. Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson; International View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Gazebos; Mo. S... More

Adm. Bldg., Naval Observatory - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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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

Co-operation of the principal maritime nations in collecting materials...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 200, Folder 41a.

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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Richard Rush, July 26, 1816. Memorandum regarding site for observatory...

University of Michigan, Detroit Observatory, Observatory & Ann Streets...

Significance: The 1853-54 Detroit Observatory was one of the nation's first astronomical houses. It contains the 12-1/2 inch refracting telescope, which was once the largest refractor in the nation and the thi... More

Lowell Observatory, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

University of Michigan, Detroit Observatory, Observatory & Ann Streets...

Significance: The 1853-54 Detroit Observatory was one of the nation's first astronomical houses. It contains the 12-1/2 inch refracting telescope, which was once the largest refractor in the nation and the thi... More

Allegheny College, Newton Memorial Observatory, North Main Street, Sou...

2013 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: At the dedication of the Newton Memorial Observatory on June 19, 1901, Dr. FM Bristol, a medical practitioner and pastor of the Metropolitan Church of Washin... 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, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

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

Georgetown University. Observatory at Georgetown University through tr...

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Detail of Griffith Observatory, above Los Angeles, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Sitting on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in L.A.'s Griffith Park, it commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin, including Downtown Los Angeles ... More

Co-operation of the principal maritime nations in collecting materials...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 200, Folder 41a.

Lowell Observatory, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

View from McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas

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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

Main Street, looking north from Warren Observatory

Photograph shows Valley Street, Hot Springs, Arkansas, with the Hale House hotel on the right. Digital image available for back of stereograph. Stamped on back of mount: J.F. Kennedy, Artist, Hot Springs, Ark.

University of Michigan, Detroit Observatory, Observatory & Ann Streets...

Significance: The 1853-54 Detroit Observatory was one of the nation's first astronomical houses. It contains the 12-1/2 inch refracting telescope, which was once the largest refractor in the nation and the thi... More

Washington City, August 17, 1848. Sir: Captain Fraser solicits the hon...

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[U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.], engraving, Library of Cong...

Wood engraving shows groups of people standing on the lawn and sidewalks at the front entrance to the Old Naval Observatory, Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.

Photograph shows a man looking through large telescope at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Copyright by Waldon Fawcett.

Observatory, Amherst College - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

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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

Lowell Observatory, Mausoleum, Flagstaff, Coconino County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

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

Central Park New York City looking south from the observatory

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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

[The Observatory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.]

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Lick Observatory, summit of Mt. Hamilton, the finest equipped observat...

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Georgetown University Seismological Observatory installs only Galitzin...

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Georgetown University. Observatory at Georgetown University through tr...

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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

Co-operation of the principal maritime nations in collecting materials...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 200, Folder 41a.

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

Lowell Observatory, Pluto Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

Lowell Observatory, Clark Dome, 1400 West Mars Road, Flagstaff, Coconi...

Survey number: HABS AZ-206-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000172

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

Georgetown University. Observatory at Georgetown University through tr...

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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