September 1994
This is an informal, unofficial guide to the holdings of archives and manuscript collections in the Washington area, including Maryland and Virginia. The repositories are listed alphabetically, with a bibliography and index at the end. For each repos itory, I have described the scope of the collection and listed some of the individuals and organizations whose papers are held. In a few cases, names of some correspondents and topics are indicated in parentheses after the name of the collection. The av ailability of finding aids, and of descriptions in other guides, is indicated when known (see abbreviations below). The guide should be used only as a starting-point for research to be used in conjunction with other reference works, not a comprehensive catalog. In general I have used information provided by the archivists, but have often have used my own judgment to select the larger or more important collections rather than list everything. The absence of a name in a list does not indicate that no papers of that person are held. I thank the archivists at the various repositories for their assistance. They are not responsible for any errors or omissions. The cost of printing the guide has been paid by a grant from the UMCP Department of History. Corrections and additions (for a future edition) should be sent to me at the Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, phone (301) 405-4846, fax (301) 314-9363, e-mail brush@ipst.umd.edu. Single copies of this guide are available, free on request, to faculty and students at the University of Maryland. Others may obtain copies for the cost of reproduction and mailing. Contact the Secretary of the Committee on History and Philosophy of Sc ience, Skinner 1102, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; phone (301) 405-5691; e-mail df28@umail.umd.edu.
Air Force History Office Bolling AFB, Washington DC 20332-6098 (202) 767-5764 Holds material on the history of aviation and meteorology [a]
American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery Foundation, Inc. 1 Prince Street Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 519-1568 Historian: Phillip R. Seitz Access: By appointment. Holds records of AAO-HNS; papers of Chevalier Jackson, Chevalier L. Jackson, Adam Politzer, Alexander Burton Randall.
American Association for the Advancement of Science 1333 H Street Washington, DC 20005 (202) 326-6485 [will be moving to a new building nearby at 12th St. & New York Avenue, ca. 1995] Archivist: Michele Aldrich Scope: records of AAAS and its publications, esp. Science. Holds administrative papers of Forest Ray Moulton, secretary, 1930-1945; Board and Council minutes; records of the popular magazine Science 1980, ..., Science 1986. Records of the Office of International Science include records of the AAAS Committee on Climate [a]. Materials on the public understanding of science are scattered through the collection. For Science magazine, the referees' reports are closed (kept as current records for use of editor in case of patent disputes, etc.) but permission may b e obtained to do some sampling and statistical research. There is correspondence of P. H. Abelson (former editor) on the double-blind refereeing policy.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists J. Bay Jacobs, M. D., Library for the History of Obstetrics and Gynecology in America 409 12th Street SW Washington, DC 20024 Contact: Susan Rishworth Access: By appointment. Holds records of ACOG; 25 video tapes (oral history and historical topics).
American Institute of Physics - Center for History of Physics and Niels Bohr Library American Center for Physics, 3rd floor One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20742 [near the River Road entrance to the College Park-University of Maryland Metro station, off Kenilworth Avenue] (301) 209-3165 Director: Spencer Weart Associate Director: Joan Warnow-Blewett Head of Niels Bohr Library: Joe Anderson Associate Archivist: Caroline Moseley Scope: physics and allied sciences, international, late 19th century to present The Library is the chief repository for the records of the AIP and its member societies. It holds papers of a few physicists, and microfilms of papers of many more; maintains a heavily-used collection of photographs; serves as a clearinghouse for infor mation about historical materials held throughout the world. In addition to preserving and expanding its own collections, the Center conducts an extensive program of historical research, including oral history interviews and the collection of manuscript autobiographies; maintains a database of materials held at oth er archives; fosters the writing of institutional histories and collects materials documenting academic physics departments and industrial laboratories; advises other institutions on methods for preserving materials of scientists who have retired or died. Maintains an International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences, and a collection of FA at other repositories. Offers Grants-in-Aid for research in the history of modern physics and allied sciences, up to $2000 awarded on a competitive basis, to reimburse direct expenses; preference is given to those who need part of the funds for travel and subsistence to use the resources of the Center in College Park. Publishes a free biannual AIP History Newsletter, and issues other reports and catalogs, including Guide to Sources for History of Solid State Physics and reports on the AIP Study of Multi-Institutional Collaboration. The Emilio Segrè Visual Archives contains historical still photographs, video recordings, and unpublished film footage. There is also an audio collection of tape recordings and 33 and 78 rpm disks; included are first-hand accounts by physicists of scientific life, and tape recordings of most of the oral history interviews. Holds tapes of interviews (with transcripts, in most cases) of: Lawrence Hugh Aller, Ralph Alpher, Luis Walter Alvarez, Viktor Ambartsumian, Carl David Anderson, Philip Anderson, Halton C. Arp, Robert d'E. Atkinson, Robert Fox Bacher, Ralph B. Baldwin, John Bardeen, Paul Doughty Bartlett, Leo L. Beranek, Hans A. Bethe, Ludwig Franz Benedikt Biermann, Francis Birch, Raymond Thayer Birge, Nicolaas Bloembergen, David Bohm, Aage Bohr, Bart Bok, Hermann Bondi, Norris E. Bradbury, William Lawrence Bragg, Lewis M. Branscomb, Walter H. Brattain, Gregory Breit, David Allan Bromley, Keith A. Bruckner, Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey R. Burbidge, Vannevar Bush, Adolf Butenandt, James Chadwick, S. Chandrasekhar, Jule G. Charney, J. D. Cockcroft, Morrel H. Cohen, Edward U. Condon, Thomas George Cowling, Allan Cox, H. R. Crane, K. K. Darrow, Gerard deVaucouleurs, Robert H. Dicke, Audouin Dollfus, Richard Rayman Doell, Sidney David Drell, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Lee A. DuBridge, Freeman J. Dyson, Frank K. Edmondson, Walter M. Elsasser, Paul Peter Ewald, Norman Feather, Eugene Feenberg, Richard Phillips Feynman, George B. Field, Val Fitch, John Foster, William Alfred Fowler, Herbert Friedman, Otto Robert Frisch, Wendell H. Furry, George Gamow, Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Richard Lawrence Garwin, Murray Gell-Mann, Riccardo Giacconi, Ivar Giaevar, John William Gofman, Thomas Gold, Leo Goldberg, Marvin L. Goldberger, Maurice Goldhaber, Herman Heine Goldstine, Gordon Gould, Jesse L. Gre enstein, A. V. Grosse, Janet Brown Guernsey, William H. Havens, Robert Herman, William Conyers Herring, Gerhard Herzberg, Karl F. Herzfeld, Joel H. Hildebrand, Banesh Hoffmann, Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg, Alan Holden, William V. Houston, Marion King Hubbert, Hendrik Christoffell van de Hulst, Milton Lasell Humason, Frederick Vinton Hunt, Elmer Hutchisson, David R. Inglis, Arthur Robert Kantrowitz, Alfred Kastler, Ray Edward Kidder, Chihiro Kikuchi, James Rhyne Killian Jr., Vera Kistiakowski, Leon Knopoff, Lew Kowarski, Nicholas Kurti, Willis Eugene Lamb Jr., Rolf W. Landauer, Charles C. Lauritsen, Thomas Lauritsen, Benjamin Lax, Melvin Lax, Leon Lederman, Sung-Dao Lee, Robert B. Leighton, Willard Frank Libby, M. Stanley Livingston, Per Olov Löwdin, Bernard Lovell, Francis Eugene Low, G. J. F. MacDonald, Leonard Mandel, John Henry Manley, Henry Margenau, Herman Francis Mark, J. Carson Mark, Robert E. Marshak, Harold Masursky, John William Mauchly, Nicholas U. Mayall, Joseph Edward Mayer, William H. McCrea, Edwin H. McMillan, George C. McVittie, A. B. Migdal, Sidney Millman, Elliott Montroll, Charlotte Emma Moore, Philip Morrison, Neville Francis Mott, Walter H. Munk, John Earl Naugle, Seth Henry Neddermeyer, Louis Néel, Homer E. Newell, Alfred O. Nier, William Aaron Nierenberg, Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, Giuseppe Occhialini, Mark L. Oliphant, Jan Hendrik Oort, Frank Oppenheimer, J. P. Ostriker, Donald E. Osterbrock, Abraham Pais, Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Chandra Kumar Naranbhai Patel, Linus Pauling, Jean Claude Pecker, P. J. E. Peebles, Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Melba N. Phillips, George C. Pimentel, Emanuel Ruben Piore, Alfred Brian Pippard, Harry Hemley Plaskett, Earle Keith Plyler, Alan Mark Portis, Edward M. Purcell, Isidore Isaac Rabi, Eugene L. Rabinowich, Norman Foster Ramsey, Grote Reber, Roger Revelle, John Hamilton Reynolds, Nancy Grace Roman, Léon Rosenfeld, Stefan Rozental, Jack Ruina, Henry Norris Russell, Robert Green Sachs, Carl Sagan, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Allan Sandage, Evry L. Schatzman, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Maarten Schmidt, John Robert Schrieffer, Martin Schwarzschild, Dennis William Sciama, George William Scott Blair, Emilio Gino Segrè, Frederick Seitz, Robert Serber, Harlow Shapley, Iosif Samuilovich Shklovskii, William Shockley, Eugene M. Shoemaker, David Shoenberg, Charles P. Slichter, Cyril Stanley Smith, Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus, Lyman Spitzer Jr., Bengt Strömgren, Edward Teller, Beatrice M. Tinsley, Laszlo Tisza, Clyde William Tombaugh, Charles Hard Townes, Sam Bard Treiman, Merle Anthony Tuve, Albrecht Otto Johannes Unsöld, Peter Van de Kamp, Sidney Van den Bergh, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Gabriele Veneziano, John Verhoogen, Arthur Robert von Hippel, Alexander N. Vyssotsky, Gregory Hugh Wannier, Wallace Waterfall, Fletcher G. Watson Jr., Kenneth Marshall Watson, Joseph Weber, David Locke Webster, Steven Weinberg, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, John Archibald Wheeler, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Eugene Paul Wigner, David Todd Wilkinson, Denys Haigh Wilkinson, Edwin Bidwell Wilson, Harold Albert Wilson, Kenneth G. Wilson, Robert Rathbun Wilson, Dean W. Wooldridge, Chen Ning Yang, Herbert Frank York, Hideki Yukawa, Jerrold Zacharias, Clarence Melvin Zener, John M. Ziman. See "The voice of astronomical history" by Spencer R. Weart and David H. DeVorkin, Sky and Telescope 63 (1982): 124-27; "Interviewing physicists and astronomers: Methods of Oral History" by David H. DeVorkin, in Physicists Look Back, ed. J. Roche, pp. 44- 65 (London: Hilger, 1990). Holds interviews and other information relating to the following projects and subjects: Modern Astrophysics; Brookhaven National Lab.; DNA [b]; Early 1930s Ph. D. Project; Geophysics; Multi-Institutional Collaborations in High Energy Physics; Laser Histo ry (Joan Bromberg project); Lunar Science (I. I. Mitroff project); "Moments of Discovery" (audiovisual units for education and public understanding); Nuclear Physics; Particle Physics (Andrew Pickering project); Post-[World] War [II] Science in non-acad emic settings (especially Dept. of Energy labs); Pulsars and Radio Astronomy (Stephen Woolgar project); Quantum Physics. Has also acquired papers, autobiographies, manuscripts, survey responses, audiovisual materials, and microfilm copies of collections at other institutions for other physicists and astronomers including: (ab means autobiography) Charles Greeley Abbot (ab, 36 pp), Walter Sydney Adams (ab, 10 pp), Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (mf 1 r, H. N. Russell, A. S. Eddington) Ralph Belknap Baldwin, Carl Barus (ab 272 pp; C. T. R. Wilson), Johann Jakob Balmer (mf 2 r), Robert Thomas Beyer (ab 44 pp), John Paul Blewett (ab 30 pp; lecture 34 pp), David Bohm (paper about him by R. B. Olwell), Max Born, Ira Sprague Bowen (ab 12 + 3 pp), Walter Houser Brattain (ab 42 + 4pp), Gregory Breit (mf 20 r, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Merle A. Tuve, John A. Wheeler, E. P. Wigner), Léon Brillouin (ab 84 pp), Marcel Louis Brillouin, Keith Allan Brueckner (ab 84 pp), Johannes Martinus Burgers (ab 35 pp) Walter Guyton Cady (ab 275 pp), A. G. W. Cameron, Seth Carlo Chandler (mf 1 r, Benjamin Boss, Benjamin A. Gould, Simon Newcomb, Herbert Hall Turner) Sydney Chapman (mf 1 r), Donald D. Clayton, Arthur Holly Compton, Edward Uhler Condon (ab 221 pp), Henry Crewe (mf 3r, George Ellery Hale, A. A. Michelson, Robert A. Millikan, Henry A. Rowland, Ernest Rutherford, Robert W. Wood) K. K. Darrow, Arthur Louis Day (ab 14 pp), Lee De Forest (ab 343 pp), Robert Henry Dicke, Jesse William Monroe DuMond (ab 390 pp), Theodore Dunham (3 r, Bart J. Bok, E. A. Milne, Marcus L. Oliphant, H. N. Russell, Harlow Shapley, Lyman Spitzer, Otto Struve, Albrecht Unsöld) Felix Ehrenhaft, Walter M. Elsasser, Hugh Everett, Isidor Fankuchen [b], Michael Faraday (1 r), Enrico Fermi (3 r from Library of Congress in addition to AHQP material), Irene Kaminka Fischer (524 pp) Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, George Ellery Hale (100 r, Charles G. Abbot, Giorgio Abetti, Walter S. Adams, James R. Angell, Svante Arrhenius, E. E. Barnard, L. A. Bauer, V. Bjerknes, J. A. Brashear, H. A. Bumstead, W. W. Campbell, J. McKeen Cattell, T. C. Chamberlin, Arthur L. Day, A. S. Eddington, Albert Einstein, E. B. Frost, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Herbert Hoover, William Huggins, J. H. Jeans, Frank B. Jewett, J. C. Kapteyn, S. P. Langley, J. Larmor, Norman Lockyer, H. A. Lorentz, Max Mason, John C. Merriam, A. A. Michelson, Dayton C. Miller, R. A. Millikan, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Simon Newcomb, Ernest F. Nichols, A. A. Noyes, H. F. Osborne, Raymond Pearl, Edward C. Pickering, H. S. Pritchett, Lord Rayleigh, Ira Remsen, Henry Norris Russell, E. Rutherford, Frank Schlesinger, Arthur Schuster, Harlow Shapley, Otto Struve, Elihu Thomson, Joseph J. Thomson, H. H. Turner, Vito Volterra, Charles D. Walcott, W. H. Welch, Edwin Bidwell Wilson, Robert S. Woodward, Robert M. Yerkes, C. A. Young, Am. Astronomical Soc., Am. Geophysical Union, Am. Philosophical Soc., Calif. Inst. of Tech., Corning Glassworks, Intl. Astronomical Union, Intl. Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Nati onal Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Science News Service) [FA], Oliver Heaviside (9 r, William H. Bragg, Lord Kelvin, J. J. Thomson), Werner Heisenberg (memoir of him by K. Bleuler), Ernest Mark Henley, Joseph Henry (mf 1 r, Alexander D. Bache; originals at Smithsonian Institution Archives), Ejnar Hertzsprung (347 microfiche, Jacobus C. Kapteyn, Gerard P. Kuiper, Willem J. Luyten, Jan Hendrick Oort, Karl Schwarzschild, Harlow Shapley, Willem de Sitter, K. A. Strand, Bengt Strömgren), Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld (mf, 1 reel), Robert Hofstadter, Edwin P. Hubble (1 r, Vannevar Bush, Willem de Sitter, A. S. Eddington, Jan Hendrik Oort, Harlow Shapley, Joel Stebbins, Otto Struve), Edward Olson Hulburt (ab 12 pp), Elmer Hutchisson, David J. C. Irving (4 r, materials on German atomic bomb, Walther Bothe, Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg) Harold Jeffreys, Charles Kittel (ab 40 pp), Oskar Benjamin Klein, Zdenek Kopal, Lew Kowarski, Elizabeth Rebecca Laird (ab 20 pp), Alfred Landé, Robert Bruce Lindsay (ab 497 pp), Leonard Benedict Loeb (ab 302 pp), Francis Eugene Low (ab 17 pp), Willem Jacob Luyten, Herman Francis Mark (ab 22 pp), Robert Eugene Marshak (137 microfiche), Max Mason, James Clerk Maxwell (mf 2 r, P. G. Tait, Michael Faraday, Lord Kelvin, John Tyndall), George Cunliffe McVittie (ab 28 pp, mf 1 r, Hermann Bondi, Charles G. Darwin, A. S. Eddington, George Gamow, Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Alan Sandage, Harlow Shapley, Fred L. Whipple), William Frederick Meggers, Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (ab 908 pp), Donald Howard Menzel (ab 681 pp), Robert Andrews Millikan (mf 80 r, Walter S. Adams, Lyman J. Briggs, Vannevar Bush, W. W. Campbell, Arthur Holly Compton, Karl T. Compton, James B. Conant, K. K. Darrow, Arthur L. Day, Lee A. DuBridge, Albert Einstein, Paul S. Epstein, Arthur H. Fleming, John A. Fleming, Henry Gordon Gale, George Ellery Hale, Ross G. Harrison, Edwin P. Hubble, Jerome C. Hunsaker, Frank B. Jewett, Theodore von Kármán, Vernon Kellogg, Charles Christian Lauritsen, H. A. Lorentz, Henry G. Lyon s, Max Mason, John C. Merriam, Albert Abraham Michelson, Thomas Hunt Morgan, William Bennett Munro, Arthur A. Noyes, Linus Pauling, Henry S. Pritchett, Francis W. Reichelderfer, F. K. Richtmyer, Henry M. Robinson, Ernest Rutherford, Harlow Shapley, William R. Smythe, Alfred H. Sturtevant, W. F. G. Swann, Richard C. Tolman, Warren Weaver, William H. Welch, Edwin B. Wilson, Fritz Zwicky), see The Robert Andrews Millikan Collection at the California Institute of Technology, Guide to a Microfilm Edition by J. R. Goodstein et al. (Pasadena: California Institute of Technology, 1977), Edwin Mattison McMillan (ab 330 pp), Edward Arthur Milne (memoir by S. Chandrasekhar), Herman Minkowski (notebooks), Philip McCord Morse (ab 14 pp), Robert Sanderson Mulliken (memoir by S. Bloomenthal), Louis Néel (memoir by D. Pestre), Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (ab 30 pp) John Aloysius O'Keefe, Jan Hendrik Oort (mf 1 r, J. S. Plaskett, Otto Struve, Walter Baade) Thornton Leigh Page, Wolfgang Pauli (memoir by K. Bleuler), Rudolph Peierls, Melba Newell Phillips, George Placzek, Earle Keith Plyler (ab 15 pp), Henri Poincaré (mf 7 r, George Howard Darwin, Lord Kelvin, Sophus Lie, Heinrich Hertz, Magnus Gosta Mittag-Leffler), Robert Vivian Pound (ab 145 pp), Isidore Isaac Rabi, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (mf 6 r, James Dewar, William Crookes, Francis Galton, A. E. H. Love, A. A. Michelson, William Ramsey, Arthur Schuster, P. G. Tait, John Tyndall, Robert W. Wood), Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (mf 5 r, atmospheric optics), Henry Norris Russell (mf 41 r, Walter S. Adams, Edward E. Barnard, William W. Campbell, Zdenek Kopal, Willem Jacob Luyten, William F. Meggers, Donald H. Menzel, E. C. Pickering, Harlow Shapley, Charlotte Moore Sitterley, Joel Stebbins, Frank Schlesinger, Otto Struve)Fritz Reiche, Walter Orr Roberts, Elizabeth Rona (ab 79 pp, about G. von Hevesy, L. Meitner, O. Hahn, Marie Curie, Irène, Frederic Joliot-Curie), Arthur Edward Ruark (ab 20 pp) Frank Schlesinger (mf 31 r, Benjamin Boss, William Bowie, William W. Campbell, Annie J. Cannon, Heber D. Curtis, Willem de Sitter, George Ellery Hale, E. C. Pickering, H. N. Russell, Harlow Shapley, Joel Stebbins), Karl Schwarzschild (mf 28 r, R. Emden, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Felix Klein, H. Seeliger), Emilio Segrè, Frederick Seitz (ab 41 pp), Harlow Shapley (mf 3 r, Edward E. Barnard, William W. Campbell, Heber D. Curtis, A. S. Eddington, G. E. Hale, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Jacobus Carnelius Kapteyn, Adrian van Maanen, E. C. Pickering, H. N. Russell, Frank Schlesinger, Vesto M. Slipher, Joel Stebbins, Edmund B. Wilson, Robert M. Yerkes) John Clarke Slater (memoir by J. H. Van Vleck), Arnold Sommerfeld (memoirs of him by F. A. Bopp, P. P. Ewald, W. Heisenberg, H. Welker), Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus (ab 296 pp), Otto Struve (mf 16 r, Walter S. Adams, Bart J. Bok, S. Chandrasekhar, Jesse L. Greenstein, Gerhard Herzberg, Gerard P. Kuiper, Willem Jacob Luyten, Donald H. Menzel, H. N. Russell, Harlow Shapley, Joel Stebbins, Bengt Strömgren, Polydore Swings, Albrecht Unsöld), Polydore F. Swings (3 r, Otto Struve) Lewi Tonks, Clifford Ambrose Truesdell (ab 72 pp) John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (ab 17 pp) Harold Albert Wilson (ab 21 pp), John Archibald Wheeler, John Tuzo Wilson Charles Augustus Young (3 r, Edward E. Barnard, Seth C. Chandler, Alvin Clark, Agnes M. Clerke, Benjamin A. Gould, Edward S. Holden, William Huggins, Norman Lockyer, E. C. Pickering, Arthur Schuster) fa Jerrold R. Zacharias, Clarence Melvin Zener (memoir by F. Seitz) Holds records of the Acoustical Society of Am., Am. Assoc. of Physics Teachers, Am. Astronomical Soc., Am. Crystallographic Assoc., Am. Inst. of Physics, Am. Physical Soc., Assoc. of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Avco-Everett Research Lab., Grav ity Research Foundation, Harvard Project Physics [high school curriculum], International Union of Crystallography, Optical Soc. of Am., and Soc. of Rheology. Holds sample referee files for the Journal of Applied Physics (selected periods, 1969-86), and Physics of Fluids (selected files, 1965 and 1975), open to researchers upon application to the current editors of these journals. Also holds files of corresp ondence between Joseph E. Mayer and Clyde A. Hutchisson, successive editors of the Journal of Chemical Physics and the AIP Director, Henry A. Barton; and the correspondence of John Torrence Tate, editor of Reviews of Modern Physics in 1928. Holds microfilm copies of documents at other repositories: Brookhaven National Laboratory (20 r, Philip Morse and Leland Haworth), Burndy Library Manuscript Collection (13 r, originals in Dibner Library at Smithsonian, see below) Cornell University Physics Department (1 r) Lowell Observatory (10 r, Percival Lowell, Vesto Melvin Slipher, fa) Manhattan Project (5 r, from National Archives RG 77) and Harrison-Bundy files (9r, from National Archives) U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, German reports on atomic energy 1938-1945 (ca. 400 microfiche, Walther Bothe, Werner Heisenberg, Hans Suess, Carl F. von Weizsäcker) from National Archives U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Security File on J. Robert Oppenheimer (4 r), U. S. President's Science Advisory Committee 1951-73 (3 r) A Guide to the Archival Collections in the Niels Bohr Library is being published in 1994. See also: "Preserving and making known the History of Physics: The American Institute of Physics Center for History of Physics" by Spencer R. Weart, in Physicists Look Back, ed. J. Roche, pp. 29-43 (Bristol: Hilger, 1990). Holds a complete copy of the "Archives for the History of Quantum Physics" which includes microfilms of correspondence and manuscripts, and/or copies of oral history interviews, of Edoardo Amaldi, Hans A. Bethe, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Léon Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, H. B. G. Casimir, J. D. Cockcroft, Richard Courant, C. G. Darwin, Peter Debye, David M. Dennison, P. A. M. Dirac, Carl Henry Eckart, (Archives for the History of Quantum Physics, cont.) Albert Einstein, Paul Ehrenfest, Paul S. Epstein, Paul Peter Ewald, Enrico Fermi, V. A. Fok, A. D. Fokker, R. H. Fowler, James Franck, Philipp Frank, Otto Robert Frisch, Walther Gerlach, Cornelis Jacobus Gorter, S. A. Goudsmit, Werner Heisenberg, Walter Heitler, Karl F. Herzfeld, Georg von Hevesy, Joel Hildebrand, Friedrich Hund, Pascual Jordan, E. C. Kemble, Oskar Klein, H. A. Kramers, Alfred Landé, Max von Laue, Fritz London, H. A. Lorentz, Paul Langevin, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Walther Meissner, Lise Meitner, Robert S. Mulliken, Christian Moller, Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Wolfgang Pauli, Linus Pauling, Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Francis Perrin, Max Planck, Michael Polanyi, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Fritz Reiche, O. W. Richardson, Léon Rosenfeld, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin Schrödinger, Emilio Gino Segrè, John Clarke Slater, Arnold Sommerfeld, Otto Stern, Hans Thirring, Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas, George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Harold Clayton Urey, J. H. Van Vleck, Theodore von Kármán, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Hermann Weyl, Pieter Zeeman. Also includes microfilm of the Minute Books of Del Squared V Club and Kapitza Club at Cambridge University (1 r) See: Sources for History of Quantum Physics: An Inventory and Report, by T. S. Kuhn et al. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1967) and supplements issued by the AIP Center for History of Physics.
American Psychiatric Association Archives 1400 K Street NW Washington, DC 20005 (202) 682-6059 Archivist: William E. Baxter Papers of John Clare Whitehorn [c], 37 LF The oral history collection includes interviews with Daniel Blain, Earl Bond, Leo Kanner, John Whitehorn and Marion Kenworthy.
American Society of Biological Chemists 9650 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD (301) 530-7145 Holds records of ASBC [b] (74 b) fa
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD (301) 530-7000 Holds records of ASPET [b] (62 b & 11 v)
American Urological Association Museum and Archives 1120 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201-5559 (410) 727-1100 Curator: Rainer M. Engel The William P. Didusch Museum holds drawings, memorabilia of Hugh Hampton Young and other urologists, urologic instruments and texts.
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology National Museum of Health and Medicine Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Bldg. 54 Washington, DC 20306-6000 (202) 576-2334/2341/0401 Chief Archivist: Michael Rhode Curator of Historical Collections: Adrianne Noe Open for research during normal work week; call for an appointment. Historical collections include records for approximately 13,000 objects ranging from surgical instruments to microscopes to medical equipment dating from the 18th century to present. The records include correspondence relating to the history and acquisit ion of the artifacts, technical manuals and newspaper articles. Anatomical and Pathological Collections contain medical specimens of pathological conditions dating from the U. S. Civil War to the present. The documents accompanying these specimens indicate name, disease, treatment, and outcome. The U. S. Civil War s keletal material comprises the largest collection. The documents contain name, regiment, battle in which the injury occurred, date of treatment, date of death, physician's reports, and related information. The Otis Historical Archives has about 2000 LF of records dealing with the history of medicine with a focus on military medicine and pathology. Highlights include: AFIP historical files - general records dealing with the history of the Army & Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (1945-present) AFIP Oral History Collection -- interviews begun in 1991 with pathologists on the AFIP staff. Contributed photographs -- approximately 2,000 photographs donated to the Army Medical Museum between 1862 and 1917 dealing with many aspects of medicine. Most are unpublished. Curatorial records -- material dealing with the collecting and research (especially bacteriology) of the US Army Medical Museum (1862-1845) General Medical Products Information collection -- over 4,000 pieces of medical trade literature dating from the 1830s to the present. NMHM Audiovisual Collection - thousands of films and videotapes relating to medicine. Earliest is 1917 American Red Cross work on "mutiles." Reeve Photographic Collection - approximately 20,000 photographs on medicine and pathology, 1917-1953. Part of this collection was removed and forms the basis of the National Library of Medicine's Prints & Photos division. Registry of Noteworthy Research in Pathology -- information collected in the early 1970s on pathology's greatest practitioners. Includes reprints, photos and occasionally original material such as lab books. Surgical Photographs -- 400 photos collected and published by the Army Medical Museum between 1862-1881 showing the progression of wound healing (or lack thereof). Townsend Papers -- General Frank Townsend's papers on aerospace medicine. Research Collections: Human Development Anatomy Center -- multiple collections of serially sectioned materials, photos, documents, publications, and three-dimensional models representing embryologic, fetal, perinatal and pediatric development and pathology. Yakov-Haleem Brain Collection -- human & comparative collection of 1,200 serially sectioned and mounted whole brain slices with accompanying documentation. In addition to the Museum, the AFIP maintains a large pathological and medical photographic collection, the Medical Illustration Service (phone 202-576-2856). There is also a Records Repository dating from 1917 to the present numbering over 2,000,000 ca ses. These are subject to standard medical privacy laws and must have an AFIP staff member co-sponsor your research protocol.
Army Corps of Engineers Office of History, Office of Chief of Engineers Kingman Building, Humphreys Engineer Center Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-5577 (202) 355-2543 Chief Historian: John T. Greenwood Holds about 130 interviews with retired officers and civilian employees of the Corps, and more than 100 topic interviews. Army Corps of Engineers Office of the Chief of Engineers Library, Room 3E066 1000 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20314 Public Affairs Office -- Audio Visual Division 20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20314
Carnegie Institution of Washington 1530 P Street NW Washington, DC 20005-1910 (202) 387-6400 Facilities Coordinator: John Strom Access by appointment. Holds records of the C.I.W. from 1902, including correspondence with and/or grant applications from: John J. Abel, Phillip Hauge Abelson, L. H. Adams, Joseph S. Ames, Alexander Agassiz, J. Mark Baldwin, Wilder D. Bancroft, Edward E. Barnard, Carl Barus, George F. Becker, Alexander Graham Bell, Lloyd V. Berkner, V. Bjerknes, Franz Boas, Niels Bohr, Lewis Boss, Lewis M. Branscomb, Dirk Brouwer, Ernest W. Brown, Luther Burbank, Barbara S. Burks, Vannevar Bush, William W. Campbell, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, William Weber Coblentz, Karl Compton, Henry Crew George H. Darwin, Arthur L. Day L. C. Dunn, Thomas A. Edison, Frank K. Edmondson, Felix Ehrenhaft, Albert Einstein, Paul S. Epstein, Herbert M. Evans, Abraham Flexner, R. H. Fowler, G. K. Gilbert, Daniel Coit Gilman, R. H. Goddard, Ross G. Harrison, Caryl P. Haskins, Leland John Haworth (biog. memoir), Earnest A. Hooton, Herbert Hoover, Ales Hrdlicka, Frank B. Jewett, David Starr Jordan, E. E. Just, Samuel P. Langley, Ernest O. Lawrence, Charles A. Lindbergh, Alfred L. Loomis, Max Mason, C. E. McClung, J. C. Merriam, Albert A. Michelson, Robert A. Millikan, E. H. Moore, F. R. Moulton, John Ulric Nef, Simon Newcomb, Edward L. Nichols, William A. Noyes, Carnegie Institution of Washington (continued) Henry Fairfield Osborn, Raymond Pearl, E. C. Pickering, Gifford Pinchot, Ira Remsen, Theodore W. Richards, Henry Norris Russell, George Sarton, Frank Schlesinger, Robert C. Seamans, Edgar F. Smith, Nettie M. Stevens Charles H. Townes, Merle A. Tuve, Oswald Veblen, F. A. Vening Meinesz, John von Neumann Charles D. Walcott, Warren Weaver, William H. Welch, Andrew Dickson White, Edmund B. Wilson, Robert W. Wood, Robert S. Woodward, Dorothy Wrinch. Also holds correspondence with organizations including AAAS, Am. Cancer Soc., Am. Geographical Soc., Am. Geophys. Union, Am. Math. Soc., Am. Med. Assoc., Am. Museum of Natural History, Am. Ontological Soc., Am. Philosophical Soc., Battelle Memorial Instit ute, California Institute of Technology, Catholic University of America, Dow Chemical Co., du Pont de Nemours & Co., Duke University, Eastman Kodak Co., Field Museum of Natural History, George Washington Univ., Georgetown Univ., Index Medicus, Lowell Obse rvatory, Naples Zoological Station, National Academy of Sciences, National Bureau of Standards, National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, New York Academy of Medicine, Office of Scientific Research and Development, Princeton University, Pu blic Health Service, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Weather Bureau, Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Yerkes Observatory. Also holds material related to the Department of Plant Biology (formerly the Department of Botanical Research); Mt. Wilson and Palomar Astronomical Observatories in California, and Las Campanas Observatory in the Southern Hemisphere; Department of Terrest rial Magnetism; Department of Genetics (formerly the Department of Experimental Evolution, then combined with the Eugenics Record Office); Geophysical Laboratory; Department of Embryology; Department of Archaeology; Department of Marine Biology; Departmen t of Meridian Astrometry; Nutrition Laboratory [b]; Seismology. Some of the research departments have maintained their own archives or deposited their collections with other organizations. The archival files in the Administration Building can be accessed through a computerized data base. See: The Earth, the Heavens and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, edited by Gregory A. Good (Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, 1994), especially the article by John Strom.
College Park Airport Museum 6709 Corporal Frank Scott Drive College Park, MD 20740 (301) 779-2011 [adjacent to College Park-U. of Maryland Metro station] Holds photos and paintings relating to Emile Berliner and Henry Adler Berliner [s], other photos and memorabilia of aviation history [s]. Department of Agriculture, see National Agricultural Library
Department of Energy - History Office 19901 Germantown Road, Germanton, MD 20874 [off I-270] (301) 903-5431 Chief Historian: Benjamin Franklin Cooling Historical technician: Ashley Waring Visitors should call in advance to make arrangements (Betsy Scroger, 903-8767, or Roger Anders, 903-5666) Scope: Atomic Energy Commission and its successors, Energy Research & Development Administration and Dept. of Energy. Holds official records of Glenn Seaborg and other administrators; records of nuclear weapons tests. Many pre-1958 files have been transferred to National Archives.
Entomological Society of America 9301 Annapolis Road Lanham, MD 20706 (301) 731-4535 Executive Director: Darryl Hansen Holds some administrative records of the Society; most of the material has moved to Ames, Iowa. See also the collections at the National Agricultural Library.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Research Unit, Office of Public and Congressional Affairs 10th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20535 (202) 324-3477 Call at least 48 hours in advance for appointment. The following files were available as of March 31, 1994, for review in the Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Reading Room (number of pages in parentheses): Albert Einstein (1,427), Nuclear Materials Equipment Corporation (2,693), J. Robert Oppenheimer Security Investigation (7,336), Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (including Klaus Fuchs, 6,026), Nikola Tesla (252), Wernher von Braun (482). See Conducting Research in FBI Records, 8th edition (1993?), which includes procedures for requesting material through the Freedom of Information Act, and updated lists of available files, both issued by the FBI (address above).
Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol Street SE Washington, DC (202) 544-4600 Contact: Laetitia Yeandle Holds Latin translations of works of Aristotle, ca. 1300 [m] and letters of Francis Bacon [m]; notebooks of John Ward on science and medicine, 1647-80; medical formulae, receipts, and prescriptions (17-18th century). See Catalog of Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, by Louis B. Wright et al. (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1971), and ibid., First Supplement by Laetitia Yeandle (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988), subject index under Agriculture, Astronomy, Bot any, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine.
Food and Drug Administration (part of U. S. Public Health Service) History Office 5600 Fishers Lane, HFC-24, Room 989 Rockville, MD 20857 (301) 443-6367 Contact: Suzanne White Junod or John Swann The History Office does not hold archives but can assist researchers in locating FDA materials at the National Archives and the National Library of Medicine.
Geological Survey (part of the U. S. Department of the Interior) The library at Reston, VA has a large collection of books but no manuscripts. Records have been transferred to the National Archives; correspondence up to 1900 has been microfilmed and a copy can be purchased from the National Archives. Field records are held at Denver, CO. For further information contact Clifford Nelson at (703)- 648-6080.
Georgetown University Library - Special Collections Division 37th and O Streets, NW Washington, DC 20057-1006 (202) 687-7475 Division Head: Mart Barringer Holds papers of Alexis Carrel (158.5 LF, Paul Claudel, Paul de Kruif, John Dewey); George M. Kober; early Maryland Jesuits including Rev. Henry Neale, S. J. (MSS on geometry and geography); Georgetown College Observatory Records, 1831-1971 [a] (37 LF); Se ismological Observatory Records, 1905-1971 (2 LF).
Georgetown University Medical Center John Vinton Dahlgren Memorial Library 3900 Reservoir Road, NW Washington, DC 20007 (202) 687-1666 Contact: Betsy King (on TuWTh) or write for appointment The Medical Center Archives holds Medical Center publications, dissertations, yearbooks, news clippings, portraits, and published histories of the University. Holds papers of Alexis Carrel [b] (90 file drawers, fa, Bailey K. Ashford, George M. Kober, and Joseph E. Koplowitz. For additional materials on Alexis Carrel contact the George University Library (see above).
Johns Hopkins University The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives 2024 East Monument St., Suite 1-500 Baltimore, MD 21205 (410) 955-3043 Archives assistant: William R. Day, Jr. Scope: archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, including the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, the Johns Hopkins University School of Nurs ing, and the now-defunct Johns Hokpins Hospital Training School for Nurses and the Johns Hopkins University School of Health Services; and personal papers of many early faculty and staff. The collections contain a large number of photographs (more than 3 0,000) and a significant number of architectural drawings. The Chesney Archives is also responsible for the numerous paintings that decorate the walls of the Institution, including the two John Singer Sargent paintings in the William H. Welch Medical Lib rary. Holds papers for the following: John Jacob Abel [b] [c] (63 LF, fa), Lewellys F. Barker [b] (2 b), Alfred Blalock, Douglas Carroll, Alan M. Chesney, Thomas S. Cullen (fa), Walter Dandy (fa), William F. Didusch Jerome D. Frank W. Horsley Gantt (fa), George O. Gey William Stewart Halsted [b] (18 LF, fa), A. McGhehee Harvey, Leslie Hellerman [c], Christian A. Herter [b] [c], Robert Heysel, John Eager Howard, John Hume Howard A. Kelly (fa), William B. Kouenhoven Albert L. Lehninger [c], Warfield T. Longcope (fa), William G. MacCallum (fa), Franklin P. Mall (fa), Victor A. McKusick, Adolf Meyer [FA, see below], Russell H. Morgan Russell A. Nelson Johns Hopkins University The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives (continued) William Osler [fa], Edwards Park, Raymond Pearl (Constitution Clinic, study of longevity) Arnold R. Rich, Curt P. Richter, Robert A. Robinson Henry Sigerist Helen B. Taussig (fa), Caroline B. Thomas (including papers of the Women's Medical Alumnae Association), Thomas B. Turner Sumio Uematsu Lewis H. Weed (fa), William Henry Welch [b] (63 LF, fa), W. Barry Wood Hugh Hampton Young [FA] George D. Zuidema The Chesney Archives also holds a collection of papers, with unpublished finding aid, of the Carnegie Institute of Embryology (Washington, D. C.) FA for Gantt and Young have been published and are available for $3 each; copies of fa for the other collections listed above may be obtained for the expense of photocopying. See: Archives and Manuscripts, The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1980, available from the Archives); Nancy McCall and Harold Kanarek, "The Alan Mason Chesney Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 56 (1982): 88-92; Personal Paper Collections in the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives (booklet available from the Archives); Ruth Leys, The Adolf Meyer Archive: A Guide to the Collection (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Un iversity, 1980).
Johns Hopkins University - Milton S. Eisenhower Library Special Collections 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218-2683 (410) 516-5492 Manuscripts Assistant: Joan Grattan Open MTuWF 8:30-5, Th 8:30-8 Advance arrangements required Scope: papers of prominent Hopkins faculty and alumni; photographs and ephemera. Holds papers of: Cleveland Abbe (5 LF, James McKeen Cattell, William Ferrel, Grove Karl Gilbert, Daniel Coit Gilman, Benjamin A. Gould, Asaph Hall, William Thomson Lord Kelvin, Samuel P. Langley, T. C. Mendenhall, Edward L. Nichols, E. C. Pickering, Michael I. Pupin, Henr y A. Rowland, Arthur Schuster) Detlev W. Bronk [b] (2 LF) Sally Harrison Dieke (12 LF, Francis D. Murnaghan, astronomy, chemistry, women scientists), Hugh Latimer Dryden [s] (85 LF, Thomas Keith Glennan, Theodore Von Kármán, Robert C. Seamans, James E. Webb, aeronautical engineering, aerodynamics, International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, NACA, NASA), see The Hugh L. Dryd en Papers, 1898-1965 by Richard K. Smith (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, 1974). FA. Walter M. Elsasser (4 LF) Daniel Coit Gilman [e] (48 LF, Cleveland Abbe, James R. Angell, A. G. Bell, Arthur Cayley, James D. Dana, Christine Ladd Franklin, Archibald Geikie, Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, G. Stanley Hall, William Thomson Lord Kelvin, T. C. Mendenhall, Simon Newcomb, William Osler, Louis Pasteur, Benjamin Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce, Ira Remsen, H. A. Rowland, Benjamin Silliman, J. J. Sylvester, Charles D. Walcott, William Henry Welch, Andrew Dickson White) William B. Kouenhoven [e] (4 LF, electrical ventricular defibrillation) Francis Dominic Murnaghan (3 LF) Johns Hopkins University - Milton S. Eisenhower Library Special Collections (continued) Ira Remsen [c] (12 LF, Wilder D. Bancroft, James D. Dana, Archibald Geikie, G. Stanley Hall, William Thomson Lord Kelvin, Othniel C. Marsh, William Albert Noyes, Henry S. Pritchett, Charles D. Walcott, William Henry Welch) Henry Augustus Rowland [e] (30 LF, physics education, telegraph, hydroelectric power technology, John Brashear) [fa] Aurel Wintner (29 LF) Also holds correspondence with William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, regarding his Baltimore Lectures. See: "Manuscripts Collections Relating to the History of Science," Special Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University, 1992. 6pp typescript.
Johns Hopkins University - Ferdinand Hamburger Jr. Archives (since 1991 the Archives have been part of the Eisenhower Library Special Collections Department) Archivists: James Stimpert, Jennifer Myrick Holds official records of Johns Hopkins University, including papers of Henry Augustus Rowland [e] (1 CF), Henry Wiegand [e] (18 v), Johns Hopkins University Department of Electrical Engineering [e] (2 b, William Huggins, computers); President's Office [e] (School of Engineering, Electrical Engineers), Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering.
Johns Hopkins University - Institute of the History of Medicine, Historical Collection 1900 East Monument Street Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 955-3259 [top floor of the William H. Welch Medical Library] Librarian: Ed Morman Holds rare books, secondary works on history of medicine, 30 volumes of incunabula, and a few manuscripts.
Library of Congress - Manuscript Division Madison Building, Room 102 First Street & Independence Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20540 (202) 707-5387 [diagonally across from "Capitol South" Metro station] Contact for science & technology: Marvin Kranz In the following list, (xx/yyy) means the collection contains xx boxes with a total of yyy items. Cleveland Abbe [a] [s] (9500, William Ferrel, Wolcott Gibbs, Benjamin A. Gould, Asaph Hall, Joseph Henry, Samuel P. Langley, Simon Newcomb, Alpheus S. Packard, Benjamin Pierce, Lewis M. Rutherfurd, Otto Wilhelm von Struve; see "A Good Place to Study Astronomy" by Nathan Reingold, Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions 20, no. 4 (Sept. 1963): 211-17), Edward Goodrich Acheson [c] [e] electrochemistr y, technology, Thomas A. Edison, Edward L. Nichols) Alfred Adler (4/800), Gen. H. H. ("Hap") Arnold (Robert A. Millikan, Theodore von Kármán), Svante Arrhenius [c] (2/2 mf), Alexander Dallas Bache [a] (18/2000, Louis Agassiz, J. D. Dana, Wolcott Gibbs, Benjamin A. Gould, Alexander v. Humboldt, Montgomery C. Meigs, Benjamin Pierce, U. S. Coast Survey), Evelyn Briggs Baldwin [a] [s] (/4200, polar expeditions), George Ferdinand Becker [c] (/9900), Alexander Graham Bell [e] [s] (428/147,700, Samuel P. Langley), Lloyd V. Berkner (164/21000, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Radio Engineers, IEEE, International Union of Geology and Geophysics, International Council of Scientific Unions), Emile Berliner [e] (1/), Charles E. Bessey (37/43,230), Franz Boas (44/?, J. McKeen Cattell, Mel J. Herskovits, Frederick Webb Hodge, George Hunt, A. L. Kroeber, Robert H. Lowie, W J McGee, Margaret Mead, Henry F. Osborne, Elsie Clews Parsons, Raymond Pearl, John R. Swanton, Alfred M. Tozzer, Edward Burnett Tylor), see Guide to the Microfilm Collection of the Professional Papers of Franz Boas (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources/American Philosophical Society, 1972) Henry C. Bolton [c] (1/), Ray Eber Brown [s] (/23,000), Charles Albert Browne [b] (43/), Luther Burbank (40/12,500), Vannevar Bush [co] [s] (173/80,000, Niels Bohr, Lloyd V. Berkner, James B. Conant, H. E. Edgerton, Keith Glennan, J. C. Hunsaker, E. O. Lawrence, Alfred L. Loomis, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard C. Tolman, James E. Webb) Library of Congress - Manuscript Division (continued) James McKeen Cattell [b] (189/49,000, Asaph Hall, William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, Edward B. Titchener, James R. Angell, Charles E. Bessey, Franz Boas, Edwin G. Boring, Vernon Kellogg, David Starr Jordan, Jacques Loeb, Thomas H. Morgan, Raymond Pearl, Carl E. Seashore, Edward L. Thorndike, John B. Watson) [FA], Octave Chanute [s] (/21,024, Wilbur Wright, Louis-Pierre Mouillard) [fa], William Weber Coblentz [c] (/350), Barry Commoner (496/110,000), Frederick A. Cook, George Smith Cook [c] (/55), Frederick Gardner Cottrell [c] (/1000) Clinton Joseph Davisson [e] (13/3000, Bell Labs., electron physics, crystal physics), Lee DeForest (4/375 and 5/5 mf), Alexander Procofieff de Seversky [s] (/100), Charles Stark Draper [s] (44/8300), John William Draper and family [a] [c] [e] (46/16,100, Cleveland Abbe, A. G. Bell, J. McK. Cattell, Charles Piazzi Smyth, John Tyndall, meteorology) Melville Eastham [e] (/6000, radio engineering), Albert Einstein (1/?, Constantin Carathéodory, Sigmund Freud) [fa] Sherman Mills Fairchild [s] (/40,120), John Fitch (3/700), Benjamin Franklin [FA], Sigmund Freud (92/2100) [fa], George Gamow [b] (28/7500, Ralph Alpher, Paul Dirac, Robert Herman, John Cockcroft, Nevill Mott, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Edward Teller) [fa], Harold Charles Gatty [s] (/7,000), Lewis Reeves Gibbes [a] [c] (/5700, Alexander D. Bache, James Espy, Joseph Henry, M. F. Maury, William C. Redfield) [fa], Robert Hutchings Goddard (2/600 mf), Adolphus Washington Greeley [a] (/45,000, R. E. Peary, Roald Amundsen, Guglielmo Marconi, S. P. Langley, A. G. Bell, Thomas A. Edison, aviation, polar expeditions, telegraph, national weather service) George Ellery Hale (100/? mf, see above under American Institute of Physics-Center for History of Physics), Asaph Hall (7/1000, Alexander Graham Bell, Alvan Clark, Benjamin A. Gould, Othniel C. Marsh, Simon Newcomb, C. H. F. Peters, Hermann Struve, François Tisserand) [fa] John Hays Hammond Jr. [e] (7 LF, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Irving Langmuir, Ernst F. W. Alexandersson, Lee DeForest, radio, inertial guidance), Peter Heller, Alfred Louis Heinrich Hildebrandt [a] [s] (/9,000, Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Octave Chanute, aviation), Herman Hollerith [co] [e] (30/10,300, tabulating machines), Freddy Homburger, Stanford Caldwell Hooper [e] (15 LF, radio), William Temple Hornaday (112/39,000), Gustavus Richard Brown Horner [a] (/4900, weather records, medicine) Frederic Eugene Ives [c] [e] (17/5000, Herbert Ives, material re Albert Einstein, photography, telephone, television) Thomas Jefferson [a] (weather records) Judson King [e] (34 LF, public power policy, electricity), Scudder Klyce (James McKeen Cattell, Theodore Williams Richards) Irving Langmuir [a] [b] [e] (106/32000, Niels Bohr, Vannevar Bush, Willis R. Whitney, weather modification, cloud seeding, dev. of gas-filled incandescent lamp, high vacuum power tube) [FA], Arthur Dehon Little [c] (3/922), Charles Andrews Lockwood [e] (/7000, submarine technology), Jacques Loeb [c] [b] (61/11,000, Svante Arrhenius, Ross G. Harrison, Leonard B. Loeb, Thomas Hunt Morgan) [fa], Grover Cleveland Loening [s] (/22,300, Richard E. Byrd, Igor I. Sikorsky, Wright brothers), Robert Staughton Lynd (15/4000) Matthew Fontaine Maury [a] (67/14,500, oceanography, meteorology) [fa], Margaret Mead (1699/500,017), Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (37/11,000), Robert A. Millikan (mf, see above under American Institute of Physics - Center for History of Physics), Edward Williams Morley [c] (3/1200, Henry E. Armstrong, Charles F. Brush, Frank W. Clark, James D. Dana, William Huggins, Frank B. Jewett, William Thomson Lord Kelvin, Samuel P. Langley, Joseph Larmor, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Albert A. Michelson, Dayton C. Miller, William A. Noyes, Wilhelm Ostwald, William Ramsay, Lord Rayleigh, Ira Remsen, Frederick Soddy, William F. G. Swann) [fa], Samuel F. B. Morse [e] (72/10,000, telegraph), John Muir (208/?, C. Hart Merriam, Henry Fairfield Osborne, see The Guide and Index to the Microform Edition of the John Muir Papers, 1858-1957, ed. R. H. Limbaugh and K. E. Lewis (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck & Healey, 1986), Henry Croskey Mustin [s] (/2,400), Albert James Myer [a] (/2300 and 4r of mf, U. S. Army Signal Corps, U. S. Weather Bureau, meteorology, Simon Newcomb (153/46000, Edward E. Barnard, Alexander Graham Bell, Lewis Boss, Sherburne W. Burnham, William W. Campbell, James McKeen Cattell, David Gill, Daniel C. Gilman, Benjamin A. Gould, George Ellery Hale, Asaph Hall, George W. Hill, Edward S. Holden, Samuel P. Langley, Othniel C. Marsh, Benjamin Pierce, Edward C. Pickering, T. J. J. See, Otto Struve, Charles D. Walcott, Carroll D. Wright) [fa] J. Robert Oppenheimer (294/74,000, David Bohm, Niels Bohr, John Cockcroft, Edward U. Condon, James B. Conant, David E. Lilenthal, Gordon Dean, Albert Einstein, Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, D. H. Menzel, Wolfgang Pauli, Julian Schwinger, Edward Teller) [FA] Thomas O. Paine [s] (364,300), Sergius Pankejeff [Freud's "Wolfman"], Piccard family of scientists & balloonists 1600-1968 [s] (107/96,000, Albert Einstein, Robert Millikan, Auguste Piccard, Jacques Piccard), Gregory Pincus [b] (208/43,000) [fa], Henry Smith Pritchett [fa] I. I. Rabi (Edouardo Amaldi, H. A. Bethe, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Vannevar Bush, Edward Condon, Lee A. DuBridge, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Polykarp Kusch, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Wolfgang Pauli, Emilio Segrè, Leo Szilard, Harold C. Urey, J. H. Van Vleck, Antonio Zichichi, Solly Zuckerman) [fa], Francis Wilton Reichelderfer [a] (14/, meteorology, U. S. Weather Bureau) Johannes de Sacrobosco [m], Glenn Theodore Seaborg (will eventually be ca. 800,000 items), Thomas Jefferson Jackson See (129/30,000) [fa], Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky [s] (/50), Albert Szent-Gyorgyi [b] (1/) [fa] Nikola Tesla [e] (mf, 7r, induction motor, George Westinghouse), Edward Lee Thorndike (7/100), Merle Antony Tuve [e] (415/145,000, Vannevar Bush, John A. Fleming, Robert J. Van de Graaff, upper atmosphere, cosmic rays, magnetism, nuclear physics, proximity fuze) [fa] Oswald Veblen (43/13,600, Niels Bohr, P. A. M. Dirac, Albert Einstein, Robert A. Millikan, Linus Pauling, O. W. Richardson, George D. Birkhoff, Richard Courant, Kurt Gödel, G. H. Hardy, Solomon Lefschetz, E. H. Moore, John von Neumann, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Bertrand Russell, Herman Weyl, J. H. C. Whitehead, Norbert Wiener, Eugene Wigner; early history of Institute for Advanced Study) [fa], Ernest Harvey Vestine [a] (18/3900), Wernher Von Braun [s] (44,000), John von Neumann [a] [co] [e] (45/10,000, H. A. Bethe, Vannevar Bush, S. Chandrasekhar, P. A. M. Dirac, Karl Eckart, Enrico Fermi, Maurice Frechet, George Gamow, Herman Goldstine, S. Kakutani, G. B. Kistiakowsky, T. C. Koopmans, J. Robert Oppenheimer, C. G. A. Rossby, Frederick Seitz, Marshall Stone, Edward Teller, S. Ulam, L. Van Hove, Oswald Veblen, Warren Weaver, Norbert Wiener, Eugene Wigner) [fa], Philipp Franz von Siebold [a] (mf 20r, flora, fauna, geology and meteorology of Japan) Selman Abraham Waksman [b] (7/1500) [fa], Alan Tower Waterman [s] (55/16,500, Detlev W. Bronk, Vannevar Bush, Karl T. Compton, James B. Conant, Lee A. DuBridge, George Gamow, Willard F. Libby, Bernard Lovell, Margaret Mead, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Harlow Shapley, Norbert Wiener, Jerrold Zacharias) [fa] John Broadus Watson (3/100), Harry Wexler [a] [s] (/13,000, Hugh L. Dryden, J. C. Hunsaker, Hugh Odishaw, F. W. Reichelderfer, John von Neumann, Fred L. Whipple, meteorology) [fa], Harvey Washington Wiley [b] [c] (247/70,000) [fa], Charles Wilkes [a] (/6500, polar expeditions, weather records, astronomical instruments), Robert Ramapatnam Williams [c] (/10,500) Edward O. Wilson, Robert E. Wilson [c] (/3500), Orville & Wilbur Wright [a] [s] (121/30,000, Glenn H. Curtiss, Igor I. Sikorsky, aviation) [FA], Levi Woodbury [e] (30 LF, telegraph) Charles Zimmerman [s] (/50). Also holds papers of a number of other psychoanalysts, conservationists, inventors, and science administrators. Holds records of American Chemical Society 1940-59 [c] (172/14000), Am. Inst. of Aeronautics & Astronautics 1783/1962 [a] [s] (271/30,000, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Octave Chanute, Glenn Curtiss, Harold Charles Gatty, Glenn Luther Martin, Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin), Am. Psychological Assoc. 1906-1986 (260/260,000), Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautics Fund 1926-1943 (21/6000), U. S. Naval Observatory 1830-1900 [a] (29/8000, M. F. Maury). Names of major correspondents within collections can be retrieved through computerized catalog which can be accessed off-site by TELNET. The address is LOCIS.LOC.GOV (or use 140.147.254.3); from the LC menu choose #1, then from list of catalogs select #3 (combined catalog). To search for NAME use the command FIND P NAME;F=MSS. This catalog is also accessible through GOPHER, and National Inventory of Documentary Sources. See also Manuscripts on Microfilm: A Checklist of the holdings in the Manuscript Division compiled by Richard B. Bickel. 82 pp. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1975. New acquisitions are reported in Library of Congress Acquisitions, Manuscript Division (published annually)
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (202) 707-6394 or 8867 Holds photos relating to Octave Chanute [s] and Glenn Hammond Curtiss [s].
Marine Corps Historical Center Navy Department 9th & M Streets S.E. Washington, DC 20374 (202) 433-3396 (personal papers collection) (202) 433-3439 (archives section) Holds papers and biographical files of Marines who made significant contributions to scientific expeditions, including the polar expeditions of Byrd [a]. Marine Corps Historical Center Oral History Program Bldg. 58, Washington Navy Yard Washington, DC 20374 (202) 433-8341 Holds papers of William F. Battell [e] (communications engineering) and Bankson T. Holcomb Jr. [e] (communications engineering, radio) Maryland Historical Society Library 201 West Monument Street Baltimore, MD 21201 (410) 685-3750 Open Tu-F 10-4:30, Sat. 9-4:30 Curator of manuscripts: Jennifer Bryan FA on medical records, chemistry & chemical processes. Holds papers of John H. Alexander [c], William G. Boettinger [s] (meteorological instruments), Hammond James Dugan [s] (aviation), William Duncan McKim [c] (medicine), and miscellaneous items relating to inventions and engineering. Also holds records of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant [e] (9 v, 2 b) See: Guide to the Research Collections of the Maryland Historical Society by Richard J. Cox and Larry E. Sullivan (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1981); The Manuscript Collections of the Maryland Historical Society, by Avril J. M. Pedley (Baltimo re: Maryland Historical Society, 1968), index entries "Agriculture," "Mathematics," "Medicine," "Weather"
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland History of Medicine Collection 1211 Cathedral Street Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 539-0872; in Maryland call (800) 492-1056 Historian/Administrator: Margaret N. Burri Open M-F 9 am - 5 pm; photocopy facilities available Holds correspondence, lecture notes, and case histories of John Archer, the Friedenwald family, William Henry Halsted, Louis Krause, William Oswald, Granville Sharpe Pattison, Benjamin Rush, Charles Frederick Wiesenthal, William Welch; archives of the Fa culty; records from the Baltimore General Dispensary, the Maryland Orthopedic Society, and several county medical societies. Also has an extensive collection of medical instruments and photographs. A list of other manuscript collections and a brochure describing the Collection are available.
National Academy of Sciences 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20418 (202) 334-2415 Director of Archives: David J. E. Saumweber Holds administrative records; records of its committees (e.g., "Physics of the Earth" 1926-42; "Nuclear Science" 1947-78; meteorology, radiation committees); disciplinary surveys; international unions and scientific programs such as International Geophysi cal Year (1957-58) and the Global Atmospheric Research Program [a]. See article by David J. W. Saumweber in the AIP Center for History of Physics Newsletter (Fall 1992), p. 8; Fleming (1989: 30-35).
National Aeronautics & Space Administration - History Division Code ICH, NASA Headquarters, Two Independence Square, SW, Washington, DC 20546 (Located in the new headquarters building just off the southeast freeway at the corner of 4th & E streets, near the Federal Center Southwest Metro station, 2 blocks south of the Air & Space Museum) Historian: Roger D. Launius (202) 358-0383 Archivist: Lee Saegesser (202) 358-0386 Sponsors historical works, usually by offering contracts (awarded on a competitive basis) to individual historians to write book-length works on NASA projects or on themes related to those projects. Sponsors an "Aerospace History Fellowship" to support r esearch at NASA headquarters or one of the NASA centers, for 6 months to 1 year; maximum stipend $25,000 for fellow with Ph.D. or $16,000 for graduate student who has completed all course work. Contact American Historical Association, 400A St. SE, Washing ton, DC 20003-3889, phone (202) 544-2422. Application deadline, Feb. 15. Publishes a booklet (periodically updated) Research in NASA History which lists publications, describes opportunities for research and writing support, and describes sources available in the DC area and elsewhere. Publishes a free newsletter, NASA Histor y: News and Notes Holds biographical materials relating to, among others: Vannevar Bush, Geraldyn Cobb, Jacqueline Cochran, Hugh L. Dryden, Burton I. Edelson, Alfred J. Eggers Jr., Maxime A. Faget, William A. Fleming, John H. Glenn Jr., Robert H. Goddard, Eldon W. Hall, Harvey Hall, Abraham Hyatt, Sergei P. Korolev, Charles A. Lindbergh, George E. Mueller, John E. Naugle, administrative papers 1960-1977 (14 LF, microfiched in 1986), Homer E. Newell, Oran W. Nicks, William J. O'Sullivan Jr., Samuel C. Phillips, Robert C. Seamans Jr., Joseph F. Shea, Abe Silverstein, John Stack, Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, John F. Victory, Wernher von Braun, James E. Webb, Richard T. Whitcomb. The total biography file (arranged by names of persons), 1800s to date, amounts to 110 LF Holds documents on the following subjects: aeronautics, 1945 to date (22 LF) Apollo documentation collected by Robert Sherrod, 1960-1978 (36 LF) budget documentation, 1958 to date (18 LF) National Aeronautics & Space Administration - History Division (continued) cartoons related to space, 1825 to date (6 LF) [NASA] centers, 1958 to date (34 LF) Congressional documents, 1918 to date (25 LF), headquarters, 1958 to date (70 LF) history of NASA, early, documents collected by Eugene Emme, 1950s-1978 (7 LF) "impact file" -- criticism of space activities, influence of space program on economics, humor, movies, etc., 1950 to date (14 LF) industry reports and other materials 1945 to date (10 LF) launch vehicles, 1945 to date (26 LF) manned spaceflight, 1953 to date (150 LF) National Academy of Sciences Space Science Board 1957 to date (4 LF) NACA correspondence, 1915-1958, 8 ft.; organization and management documents 1910 to date (85 LF, including administrative papers of George M. Low, T. Keith Glennan, James C. Fletcher, Hugh L. Dryden) Russia and other countries, 1800 to date (35 LF) space research, propulsion, and reentry, 1956 to date, 9 LF) space sciences, 1851 to date (10 ft) unmanned programs, projects and satellites, 1945 to date (70 LF) White House and Presidential Papers 1958 to date (22 LF, including President's Science Advisory Committee and National Aeronautics and Space Council); There is an ongoing computer database which allows retrieval by names, subjects, projects and programs. Other documents have been retired to the Federal Records Center at Suitland and can be recalled by the History Office (papers of administrators, Electronics Research Center files, Viking history collection, etc.). The collection holds many oral history interviews. See also: Saving the Right Stuff: A Report and Recommendations to the Archivist of the United States on the Appraisal of Research and Development Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records A dministration, 1985); Documents in the History of NASA, comp. by Monte D. Wright (Washington, DC: NASA History Office, 1975).
National Aeronautics & Space Administration -- Langley Research Center Historical Program Manager, Mail Stop 446 Hampton, VA 23681-0001 (804) 864-3441; FTS: 928-3441 FAX (804) 864-8096 Historical program manager: Richard T. Layman; Library Technical Information Specialist, Garland Gouger Holds: NACA research authorization files; Milton Ames collection (documents collected by a former Langley engineer who hoped to write a history of the laboratory); papers of Floyd L. Thompson (Director of LRC, 1960-68, with some earlier NACA material), J ohn Stack (aerodynamicist of the 1920s through 1950s), Fred E. Weick (an early NACA engineer) and Charles F. Zimmerman (aeronautical engineer). Note that NACA correspondence files are no longer part of Langley's historical collections; these files have been accessioned by the National Archives and Records Administration, in Record Group 255.
National Agricultural Library Beltsville, MD 20705 (301) 504-5876 Head of Special Collections: Alan E. Fusonie Holds papers of M. Truman Fossum, Julian N. Friant, Henry Granger Knight [c], Charles E. North, the Prince family (William Sr., William Jr, William Robert, L. Bradford) [FA], Charles Valentine Riley [FA], C. F. Stewart Sharpe [FA] William Woolford Skinner [c], Alfred True [b]. The Riley collection includes letters to him from William Saunders and A. S. Packard [FA]. Holds papers of the American Association of Agricultural College Editors and the United States Agricultural History Society The Special Collections Office (14th floor) holds rare books (published before 1870) include many that document the transfer of knowledge from Europe to America; also C. V. Riley's desk, microscope and memorabilia. The Forest History Photo Collection, started by Gifford Pinchot, goes back to the 1890s and provides source material for logging technology and environmental debates. See: "The History of the National Agricultural Library" by Alan E. Fusione, Agricultural History, 62, no. 2 (1988): 189-207; "Special Collections at the National Agricultural Library" by Judith J. Ho, The Historical Gardener, 2, no. 2 (Summer 1993): 6-7; 2, no. 3 (Fall 1993): 6, 12; 2, no. 4 (Winter 1993): 2, 12; Guide to Manuscripts in the National Agricultural Library by Alan E. Fusonie (Washington, DC: U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1979, Misc. Pub. No. 1374); "Laser Disc Technology Allows Quick Access to USDA Photos" by Brian Norris, Agricultural Libraries Information Notes, 16, nos. 11/12 (Nov./Dec. 1990); "Evaluating Optical Laser Disk Storage and Retrieval Systems for Non-Print Access at NAL" by Alan E. Fus onie and William G. Hauser, ibid. 14, nos. 11/12 (Nov./Dec. 1988).
National Archives Pennsylvania Avenue at 8th Street, NW Washington, DC [across the street from "Archives- Navy Memorial" Metro station] Hours: MW 8:45 am - 5 pm; TuThF 8:45 am-9 pm; Sat 8:45 am-4:45 pm Researchers should begin by calling the Civil Reference Branch at (202) 501-5395 [5425] to make an appointment with an archivist specializing in their topic (or the Military Reference Branch, as appropriate). Marjorie Ciarlante (523-3059) handles most ar eas of science and technology; Lee Johnson (523-3059) and Frank Warner (523-3276) also cover some of these areas. Contact Edward Reese for military records. Archives II 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD [between Metzerott Road and University Boulevard, just inside the Beltway between the New Hampshire Avenue and Route 1 exits] A free shuttle service operates between the National Archives Building (7th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue) and the Archives II building, leaving each building every hour on the hour beginning at 9 am and arriving at the other one 45 minutes later; the la st run from each building is at 4 pm. The following record groups contain material on science and technology. * indicates those scheduled to be moved to Archives II. Numbers preceded by M or T refer to microfilms that may be purchased from the National Archives Trust Fund Board; see Nationa l Archives Microfilm Resources for Research, A Comprehensive Catalog (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1990). 7* Bureau of Entomology & Plant Quarantine [a]. Cartographic and visual records, 1870-1950 (1825 items) incl. photos of entomologists. Letters received from W. D. Hunter, 1902-8, available on mf, M864 (3 r). 8* Agricultural Engineering. [fa] 16* Secretary of Agriculture, 1839-1957 [a]. Cartographic and visual records (23,382 items), incl. photos of scientists, 1886-1927. Some records concerning the Weather Bureau, 1928-41 (4 LF). [FA] 18 Air Force, mostly 1914-1947, incl. meteorology [a], aeronautical engineering, chemistry. 23* Coast & Geodetic Survey scientific records, 1816-1948 [a] (3685 LF), incl. astronomical and weather observations, terrestrial magnetism; papers of F. R. Hassler. Correspondence of A. D. Bache (Supt., 1843-1865) available on mf, M642 (281 r), Thomas C. Mendenhall, Benjamin Peirce. Selected Tide-Staff Readings and Hydrographic Survey Soundings of Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary, 1908-9 North Polar Expedition, available on mf, T296 (1 r). [fa] 27* Weather Bureau [a]. Extensive [fa]. Maury Abstract Logs, 1796-1861, available on mf, M1160 (88 r). Selected Records from Records of the Weather Bureau relating to New Orleans, 1841-1907, available on mf, M1379 (8 r). 28 Post Office, incl. file on Samuel Morse's 1843 telegraph line 37 Hydrographic Office [a]. [FA]. Records of the U. S. Exploring Expedition under the Command of Lt. Charles Wilkes, 1836-1842, available on mf, M75 (27 r). Reports on weather and ocean currents. Material relating to M. F. Maury 43* Participation in international conferences 1825-1941 (362 LF) 46 Senate committees on science & technology 51* Bureau of the Budget, Office of Management and Budget, incl. funding of scientific/technical projects 54* Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering [a] [b]; Biophysical Laboratory 57* Geological Survey. Available on mf: Letters sent by the U. S. G. S., 1879-1895, M152 (29 r); Letters Received by John Wesley Powell, 1869-1879, M156 (10 r); Registers of Letters received by the U. S. G. S., 1879-1901, M157 (16 r); Letters receiv ed by the U. S. G. S., 1879-1901, M 590 (118 r); Records of the Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel ([Clarence] "King Survey"), 1867-1881, M622 (3 r); Records of the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories ([Frederick Vandiver] "Hayd en Survey"), 1867-1879, M623 (21 r). Geological Survey and Marine Corps Surveys and Maps of the Dominican Republic, 1919-1923, T282 (6 r). 70* Bureau of Mines 77* Office of Chief of Engineers [a], incl. Manhattan Engineer District (uranium project), 1942-1948; files of Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves; photos of atomic bombing at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Available on mf: Letters sent by the Office of the Chief of Engineers relating to Internal Improvements, 1824-1830, M65 (3 r); Letters sent by the Topographical Bureau of the War Department (etc.], 1829-1870, M66 (37 r); Buell Collection of Historical Documents relating to the Corps of Engineers, 1801-1819, M417 ( 3 r); Registers of Letters received by the Topographical Bureau of the War Department, 1824-1866, M505 (4 r); Letters received by the Topographical Bureau of the War Department, 1824-1865, M506 (86 r); [George L.] Harrison- [Harvey H.] Bundy Files relatin g to the Development of the Atomic Bomb, 1942-1946, M1108 (9 r, FA); Correspondence ("Top Secret") of the Manhattan Engineer District, 1942-1946, M1109 (5 r); Letters sent by the Chief of Engineers, 1812-1869, M1113 (8 r). See also: A Guide to Manhattan Project: Official History and Documents, ed. by Paul Kesaris, mf 14r available in reading room (Washington, DC: University Publications of America, 1977). 78 Naval Observatory 1840-1943, incl. astronomical, meteorological and magnetic observations, work of M. F. Maury [a]. Correspondence with Cleveland Abbe, George Biddell Airy, F. W. Argelander, Spencer F. Baird, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Lewis Boss, S. W. Burnham, Alvan Clark, Camille Flammarion, Robert Grant, Benjamin A. Gould, David Gill, Joseph Henry, U. J. J. LeVerrier, Samuel P. Langley, Maria Mitchell, Gen. M. C. Meigs, Simon Newcomb, Benjamin Peirce, C. A. F. Peters, E. C. Pickering, Lewis M. Rutherfurd, H. A. Rowland, David Trowbridge, C. A. Young. [fa] 83* Bureau of Agricultural Economics, incl. meteorology [a] 90* Public Health Service, 1794-1951 97* Bureau of Agriculture & Industrial Chemistry [b] (271 LF) 111 Office of the Chief Signal Officer [e]; telegraph system, telephone, radio, radar, meteorology [a] (Albert J. Myer) 112 Office of the Surgeon General (Army) [a] 114* Soil Conservation Service, incl. climate records [a] 126* Office of Territories; Antarctic Service, including records of the [Richard Evelyn] Byrd expedition and weather records for Alaska, Hawaii, etc. [a] 128 Joint Committees of Congress, incl. Joint Atomic Energy Committee and other committees on scientific topics 138 Federal Power Commission 164* [Agricultural] Experiment Stations, 1888-1960 (558 LF) 165* Military Intelligence Division, incl. "Alsos" mission to Italy and Germany in WW II 167* National Bureau of Standards, 1830-1968 [a], incl. Office of Standard Weights and Measures, 1930-1901. Electrical Division [e]. Papers of A. D. Bache, Lyman J. Briggs, George K. Burgess, Edward U. Condon, J. Howard Dellinger, F. R. Hassler, Jonathan Homer Lane, Benjamin Peirce, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Samuel W. Stratton. Records on radio, thermometry, barometry. 173* Federal Communications Commission 185 Panama Canal, incl. hydrographic and meteorologic records [a]. 189* National Academy of Sciences, 64 CF 200 General L. Groves, personal papers 220* President's Science Advisory Committee (1957-61) (2 LF), incl. Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, 1979; Commission on the Challenger Accident 221 Rural Electrification Administration. 227* Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1940-47 [a] [e] (2965 CF), incl. records of Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Richard C. Tolman, Frank B. Jewett, Karl T. Compton; files re atomic bomb, proximity fuses, ballistics, explosives, propellant s, electrical communication, electronics, optics & camouflage techniques, metallurgy, radio, propagation of electromagnetic waves in lower atmosphere. Detailed fa. Reports of the OSRD, 1941-1947, available on mf, T1012 (487 r). 233 House committees on science & technology 234* Reconstruction Finance Corporation -- Federal Facilities Corporation, 1941-1961 (68 LF + 41 rolls of mf), incl. synthetic rubber 241 Patent office - patent applications including inventor's specifications and drawings, 1791-1923 243* Strategic Bombing Survey, incl. atomic bomb. FA. 255* National Aeronautics & Space Administration [a]. 287* Publications of the U. S. Government, incl. record copies of scientific and technical publications 298* Office of Naval Research, 1941-1945 (69 LF) National Archives (continued) 306* U. S. Information Agency - Voice of America, 1900-1965 (664,393 items) incl. programs on atomic energy, science 307* National Science Foundation, 1956-58. 1 LF. Records of polar programs [a]. President's Committee on Scientists & Engineers. 310* Agricultural Research Administration, 1918-1953 [b] (315 LF) 326* Atomic Energy Commission (9 CF); audiovisual records (81 items); Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., 1942-50; metallurgy program at Argonne Nat. Lab., 1934-64 [will eventually go back to Chicago NARA facility]. Section E-39, "High Energy Physics 1957-1964" (11 bo xes), contains material on the development of accelerators; reports and lectures by J. P. Blewett, E. Brannen, H. Froelich, M. L. Good, L. J. Haworth, L. J. Laslett, T. D. Lee, J. McCone, K. Shimoda, W. D. Walker; correspondence of E. Amaldi, J. P. Blewett, U. Camerini, H. R. Crane, A. V. Crewe, W. F. Fry, E. L. Goldwasser, J. K. Knipp, L. J. Laslett, M. S. Livingston, E. J. Lofgren, R. E. Marshak, P. W. McDaniel, W. K. H. Panofsky, V. Z. Peterson, O. Piccioni, N. F. Ramsey, R. O. Rollefson, G. T. Seaborg, W. A. Shurcliff, G. A. Snow, R. M. Steffen, G. W. Tautfest, L. C. Teng, B. Waldman, W. D. Walker, N. S. Wall, W. A. Wallenmeyer, A. Wattenberg, M. G. White, R. R. Wilson; conferences at Rochester, Geneva, and Dubna, including participation of Soviet physicists; Cornell proposal for a 10 BeV electron synchrotron; Midwestern Universities Research Association propos al for an accelerator; records for the Princeton-Pennsylvania accelerator, the Stanford Linear Accelerator, and accelerators at the Universities of California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland and Wisconsin, Harvard University, Purdue University, and Tufts Univ ersity; correspondence on klystrons with Radio Corp. of America and Sperry Gyroscope Co. 327 Defense Electric Power Administration 330 Office of Secretary of Defense, incl. Research and Development Board, 1941-54. [fa] 342* U. S. Air Force Command, Activities and Organizations, incl. films of Wright Brothers, development of balloons, rockets, satellites; films of atomic bomb tests at Bikini and elsewhere. 359* Office of Science & Technology, 1957-61 [a] (13 CF, George B. Kistiakoswki, James B. Killian, Jerome B. Weisner) 370* Environmental Science Services Administration 1965-70 [a] (meteorology, oceanography, cartography) 374* Defense Nuclear Agency, incl. mf of history of Manhattan Project; photos of atomic tests 401* Polar regions [a] -- Amundsen-Ellsworth Arctic Expeditions of 1925-26; expeditions of Roald Amundsen, Paul Dalrymple, Robert E. Peary; meteorological data. Also holds papers of Adm. Robert E. Peary and others involved in exploration of the Arctic and Antarctic; sound recordings of speeches and interviews of Thomas Edison; National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel (restricted). See: Guide to the National Archives of the United States (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1987); National Archives 1993 Publications (Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1993); Susan Huver Karren, "Buildin g a better mousetrap: Records in the National Archives relating to Science and Technology," Science & Technology Libraries, 9, no. 4 (1989): 57-67; Nathan Reingold, "The National Archives and the History of Science in America," Isis, 46 (1955): 22-28.
National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 (301) 496-5963 Open: M-F 8:30-4:45 Archivist: Sheila O'Neill Scope: papers and interviews of individuals who have influenced the development of contemporary medicine; papers of health-related organizations; nonclinical photographs relating to the history of medicine; several volumes of anonymous medical recipes. T he oral history interviews [b] [c] include notable physicians and scientists selected by Martin Cummings (former Director of NIH), persons involved with health research in the U. S. (George Rosen collection), the child development movement (Milton J. E. S enn collection), Johns Hopkins University, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), women in medicine, hospital administration, and homeopathy. The FDA interview collection has a detailed name/subject index. Holds 90 early Western manuscripts (before 1600) and microfilm copies of about 600 manuscripts held by European libraries; about a million modern manuscripts including about 200 oral history memoirs; also prints and photographs, films and audiocassettes. NLM holds papers/interviews of: Faye Glenn Abdellah (9 LF, nursing) [fa], John Adriani (45 LF, anesthesiology, pharmaceutical industry, medical education, hospital administration, health-care policy & planning, James F. Ahrens, Kasumi Arakawa, Douglass H. Batten, Isidore Cohn, Jay Constantine, Michael DeBakey, Benjamin Gordon, Kenneth K. Keown, Guillermo Lopez Alonso, Alton Ochsner, Ralph S. Sappenfield, Perry P. Volpitto, ) [FA], Ernest M. Allen (OH) Carl G. Baker (OH), Stanhope Bayne-Jones (73 b and v, 9r of OH, James R. Angell, Harvey Cushing, Thomas M. Rivers, bacteriology, medical education, military medicine) [fa], William B. Bean (73 b) [fa], Leonidas Harris Berry (10 b, health care of minorities, gastroenterology) [fa], John Shaw Billings (18 b and 65 r of mf, Library of the Surgeon General's Office,) [fa], Joseph Black [c] (lecture notes), Lyman Brewer (29 b, thoracic surgery) [fa], Urie Bronfenbrenner (OH), Bertram Brown (89 b) [fa], William R. Bryan (OH), Leroy E. Burney (OH) Eugene P. Campbell (public health in South America) [fa], Jean Martin Charcot (21 items), G. Robert Coatney (OH), Lowell T. Coggeshall (OH), Henry Leber Coit (16 b, 6 v, pediatrics) [fa], Irving S. Cooper (14 b, cryosurgery) [fa], William Cullen [c] (lecture notes), Hugh Smith Cummings (mf of memoirs, 1153 p; OH) Ward Darley (20 b and v, 3 r of OH; medical education, health care delivery, Assoc. of Am. Medical Colleges) [fa], H. Trendley Dean (dental research, fluoridation) [fa], W. Palmer Dearing (OH), Wayne Dennis (31 b and 9 v; cross-cultural studies of behavior and intelligence of children), Warren F. Draper (OH), Louis I. Dublin (22 b; statistics) [fa], Rolla E. Dyer (OH) Kenneth M. Endicott (OH) Isidor S. Falk (OH), Robert H. Felix (OH), Henry Fischbach (OH), Morris Fishbein (OH, 120 p transcript; J.A.M.A.), Arthur S. Flemming (OH), Marion B. Folsom (OH), George Fordyce [c] (lecture notes), Lawrence K. Frank (OH), Anna Freud (OH) Frederick Garfield (OH), Fielding Hudson Garrison (history of medicine, Index Medicus) [fa], Charles Frederic Gell [s] (8 b, aviation medicine), Mike Gorman (public health advocacy) [fa], Alan Gregg (30 b, Adelbert Ames, Hadley Cantril, Lawrence S. Kubie, Karl A. Menninger, Robert M. Yerkes) [fa], Edward Lawrence Griffin [c] (OH) Victor H. Haas (OH), Henry N. Harkins (89 b) [fa], Ruth Roy Harris (11b, history of dentistry & dental research) [fa], Robert A. Harte [c] (2 b), Albert Baird Hastings [b] [c] (54 b and 13 v, 26 r of OH, Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Lawrence J. Henderson, Donald D. Van Slyke, Shields Warren, Harvard Univ.) [fa], John R. Heller (OH), Michael Heidelberger [c] (11 b, 4 r of OH; biochemistry, immunochemistry) [fa], Werner and Gertrude Henle (29 b, virology, immunology, viral oncology, cancer research, mononucleosis, Epstein-Barr virus) [fa], Lister Hill (OH, 77 r of mf, 2 r of OH; health legislation) [fa], Herman E. Hilleboe (OH), Alexander H. Hoff (surgery, military medicine), Vane M. Hoge (OH), Mark D. Hollis (OH), Emile Holman (OH 69 p transcript), Frank Lappin Horsfall (21 b, Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Detlev Bronk, Morris Fishbein, Abraham Flexner, P. M. Medawar, Thomas M. Rivers, Albert B. Sabin, Jonas Salk, Selman A. Waksman, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research) [fa], James M. Hundley (OH) Chevalier Jackson (29 b, bronchoscopy) [fa], Carlyle Jacobsen (OH), Saul Jarcho (33 b. history of medicine, internal medicine) [fa] Jerome Kagan (OH), Emerson Crosby Kelly (74 b, physicians not in AMA directories), Charles V. Kidd (OH), Oral Lee Kline (OH), Sigmund Adolphus Knopf [b] (5 LF, fa), George Martin Kober (25 b and 6 v; fa), Lawrence Kolb (OH), C. Everett Koop (113 b, pediatric surgery, public health, immunization) [fa] Harold Lamport [s] (14 b, biophysics) [fa], Alexander D. Langmuir (OH), Chauncey D. Leake (79b and 3 v, Herbert M. Evans, M. F. Ashley Montague, Robert Oppenheimer, Linus Pauling) [fa], Moritz Leo-Wolf (20v, notes on lectures in Berlin & Heidelberg 1822-6), Emanuel Libman (25 b & photos, Walter Alv arez, Alexis Carrel, Harvey Cushing, Albert Einstein, Abraham Flexner, Abraham Jacobi, Charles H. Mayo, William J. Mayo, William Osler, David Riesman, Chaim Weizmann, William H. Welch, bacteriology, cardiology) [fa], Esmond R. Long (OH) Florence S. Mahoney (health advocacy), Mary Eugenie Maver [c] (ab, biochemistry), Leonard W. Mayo (OH), Jack Mazur (OH), Margaret Mead (OH), William Shainline Middleton (57 b, 14 r of OH, military medicine, U. of Wisconsin) [fa], Wyndham D. Miles (history of NLM, history of National Board of Health) [fa], Lois B. Murphy (OH), Joseph S. Murtaugh (OH) Adolf Nichtenhauser (24 b, medical motion pictures) [FA], Florence Nightingale (sound recording) Irving H. Page (12 b & 52 v, Inst. of Med. of Nat. Acad. Sci., history of hypertension research), Thomas Parran (OH), Louis Pasteur [c], John R. Paul (OH), George St. John Perrott (OH), Lyon Playfair [c] (lecture notes), David E. Price (OH), Elizabeth Gatlin Pritchard (30 b, Public Health Service, tuberculosis, venereal disease, malaria) [fa] Mark M. Ravitch (132 b, Am. Surgical Assoc., pediatric surgery) [fa], Julius B. Richmond (76 b, Head Start Project, pediatrics, child psychiatry, human development) [fa], Robert S. Roe (OH), Benjamin Rush (lecture notes) Leonard A. Scheele (OH), Calvin W. Schwabe (37 b, tropical health, hydatid disease, parasitic disease, epidemiology, veterinary medicine) [fa], Milton J. E. Senn (65 b, child development movement, Lawrence K. Frank, Lois B. Murphy, Lester W. Sontag, Helen Thompson, Alfred Washburn, Gesell Clinic, Yale Univ. Child Study Center, Cornell-N.Y. Hospital Institute of Child Health, World Health Org.) [fa], James A. Shannon (30 b, NIH, Rockefeller Univ.) [fa], Moses Chaim Shelesnyak (8 LF, polar expeditions, reproductive physiology, population/family planning, birth control, Solly Zuckerman, Gregory Pincus) [fa], William P. Shepard (OH), Henry Siegel (23 b, "alleged tubucurarine poisoning") [fa], Glenn G. Slocum (OH), Wilson G. Smillie (OH), Lester W. Sontag (OH), Fred L. Soper (74 b, yellow fever & malaria, Rockefeller Foundation, Pan American Sanitary Bureau) [fa], Roscoe R. Spencer (OH), Benjamin Spock (OH), Mearl F. Stanton (9 b, parasites, cancer, pathology, National Cancer Institute) [fa], Harold L. Stewart (75 b, OH, pathology, oncology, cancer), Lois M. Stolz (16 b, child development), Frederick L. Stone (OH), Albert Szent-Gyorgyi [c] (4r of OH, biochemistry, vitamin C) Helen Taussig (OH, 52 p transcript; pediatric cardiology) Helen Thompson (OH), Norman H. Topping (OH) Jacob M. Ullmer (34 b, blindness, opthalmology), Cassius J. Van Slyke (OH), Donald Dexter Van Slyke [c] (OH) Owen Wangensteen (4 r of OH), Shields Warren (4 r of OH), Alfred Washburn (OH), William Henry Welch (sound recordings), Nathan Anthony Womack (20 b; fa), George Bacon Wood [c] (lecture notes) John Barlow Youmans (53 b; fa). Holds papers of the following organizations: Alpha Omega Alpha (22 b), Am. Assoc. for Labor History (mf, 71 r), Am. Assoc. for Medical Systems & Informatics [co], Am. Assoc. for Thoracic Surgery (10 b), Am. Assoc. for the Surgery of Trauma (9 b), Am. Clinical and Climatological Assoc. (4 b), Am. College of Nurse-Midwives (36 b), Am. Dental Assoc. (1 v), Am. Ophthalmological Soc. (3 b & container), Assoc. of Am. Medical Colleges (113 b, see also W. Darley collection), Assoc. of Military Surgeons of the U.S. (4 b), Assoc. of State and Territorial Health Officers (18 b), Assoc. of Honorary Consultants to the Army Medical Library, Clinico-Pathological Soc. of Washington DC (3 b), Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America ( 7 b & proceedings), National League for Nursing, Neurosurgical Soc. of Am., Prudential Insurance Co. of Am. (27 v), Sydenham Hospital of Baltimore (83 b & 96 v). See: A History of the National Library of Medicine by Wyndham D. Miles (Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health Pub. No. 85-1904, 1982); A Catalogue of Incunabula and Manuscripts by the Army Medical Library by Dorothy M. Schullian (1950); Early Weste rn Manuscripts in the National Library of Mecicine: A Short-Title List by Elizabeth Tunis (1989); Manuscript Collections in the National Library of Medicine: A Provisional Guide, draft, 1988 (unpublished, available in library). Part of the manuscript collection can be acccessed through NLM's online catalog, CATLINE, and also through RLIN and OCLC.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Central Library, SSMC-3, 2nd floor 1315 East-West Highway, Suite 2000 Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 713-2600, ext. 124 Holds 19th-century materials from the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
National Geodetic Survey -- Geodetic Reference Services SSMC-3, 8th floor 1315 East-West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 713-3249 Holds coast surveys, correspondence, superintendents reports; some material for F. R. Hassler
Naval Academy, Nimitz Library, Special Collections Department Annapolis, MD 21402 (410) 267-2220 Holds typescript copy of Robert Hutchings Goddard's notebooks on rocket experiments, with photos (23 vols.)
Naval Air Systems Command Historian's Office Crystal City, Arlington, VA Washington, DC 20361-0701 (202) 746-3793 Holds Anacostia Flight Test Reports [s] (25 LF); papers of Richard Stevens Burington [s] (6 LF); Material Reports of the Bureau of Aeronautics, 1919-1939 [s] (15 LF).
Naval Historical Center Operational Archives Washington Navy Yard Washington, DC 20374 Holds records of Axis wartime research and development generated by the U. S. Naval Technical Missions to Japan and Europe at the end of World War II. See the Letter to Editor by Gary E. Weir in Isis, 85 (1994): 278. Oral History Collections, Operational Archives Building 57, Washington Navy Yard Washington, DC 20374-0571 (202) 433-3170 Archivist: Martha Crawley Holds about 80 CF of copies of interview transcripts from several other locations, and card index of U. S. Naval Institute Oral Histories.
Naval Institute Oral History Office U. S. Naval Academy Museum Annapolis, MD 21402 (410) 268-6110 Director of Oral History: Paul Stilwell Several interviews deal with electricity, automatic guidance for missiles, nuclear-electric power for submarines [e]; includes 10 interviews with Charles Adair on radio.
Naval Observatory, Library 3450 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20392 (202) 653-1541 Historian: Steven Dick Access by appointment only Holds many journals containing results of telescope observations, notebooks listing purchases and functions of various telescopic instruments; notebooks and copies of letters of William Harkness and Gerard Clemence; research worksheets relating to astrono my and telescopic observations; some correspondence relating to celestial mechanics. Correspondence of the Nautical Almanac Office, 1920-1945. Most records prior to 1945 (except for those of Harkness) have been transferred to the National Archives. Observing logs from the 26" telescope are in the Library's Rare Book Room.
Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian museums in Washington are to a large extent archives of written records and physical products of science and technology, especially in the U. S. At any given time, certain parts of this collection are on public display, while the rest is available for research by scholars. In addition, staff of the museums and of departments outside of Washington (e.g., the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge and the Tropical Research Center in Panama) conduct scientific research, and the records of this research (including some material pertaining to non-Smithsonian scientists) are held in the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian employs historians of science and technology who conduct their own research as well as serving as curators of the col lections and organizers of exhibits. It also offers research opportunities and fellowships for graduate students and other visiting scholars. See: Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and Study in History - Art - Science, published annually by the Office of Fellowships and Grants, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560; Smithsonian Institution Archival, Manuscript, and Special Collecti on Resources (1988 booklet), published by Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, DC 20560; Smithsonian Institution Libraries, User Guide (leaflet), published by Office of the Director, NHB 22, MRC 154, 10th St. & Constitution Avenue, NW, Washingto n, DC 20560; "Archival Research Guide" by Craig A. Orr, 7 pp. (1993 mimeographed document available from Archives Center at NMAH Archive Center). Guide to Photographic Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Vol. 1: National Museum of American History. Vol. 2: National Museum of Natural History, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, by Diane Vogt O'Connor. Washingt on, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989, 1991. Smithsonian Institution Archives Arts and Industries Bldg., Room 2135 900 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington DC 20560 (202) 357-1420 [use "Smithsonian" Metro station] Acting Director: John F. Jameson Historian: Pamela M. Henson Editor, Joseph Henry Papers: Marc Rothenberg Holds most of the records of S. I. staff members, and and adminstrative records of S. I. branches. The collection is especially strong in 19th century American science, and includes documents on astrophysics, botany, ecology, tropical biology, meteorology, and zoology. There are documents on Operation Crossroads (the Bikini atomic bomb test) in which some S.I. scientists were involved. The Archives holds administrative papers of the S.I.'s Secretaries, especially Joseph Henr y, Spencer F. Baird and Samuel P. Langley [s] (32.4 LM), Charles D. Walcott [s] (18 LM, incl. material on aviation), Charles G. Abbot [a] [s] (29.1 LM, incl. material on astrophysics, relation between solar variations and earth's weather, aviation and R. H. Goddard's rocket research), Alexander Wetmore [s] and Leonard Carmichael [s] (42.9 LM, incl. material on earth satellites). It also holds papers of: A. D. Bache [a], Jean Louis Berlandier [a] (2.5 LM, natural history, meteorology), Henry Helm Clayton [a] (1.6 LM, meteorology, C. G. Abbot), William H. Dall [a] (10 LM, meteorology) Samuel P. Langley [s] (9.5 LM, aeronautical research), Alfred Vail [e] (4.5 CF, telegraph ). The Charles D. Walcott collection includes correspondence with Cleveland Abbe, Charles G. Abbot, Spencer F. Baird, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, James Dwight Dana, Herman Leroy Fairchild, Grove Karl Gilbert, Daniel Coit Gilman, Robert H. Goddard, George E. Hale, William Temple Hornaday, Alpheus Hyatt, David Starr Jordan, Clarence King, Alfred L. Kroeber, Samuel P. Langley, A. A. Michelson, Robert A. Millikan, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Gifford Pinchot, John Wesley Powell, Henry S. Pritchett, Ira Remsen, C. E. Seashore, and papers relating to Franz Boas [FA]. The Joseph Henry Papers Project [a] [e] is publishing a large selection of Henry's correspondence and manuscripts (volume 6 appeared in 1992, covering his life from 1844 through 1846). Correspondents include Cleveland Abbe, James P. Espy, Arnold Guyot, William Redfield; subjects include electromagnetism, telegraphy. Recent major acquisitions include the papers of Bruce Heezen and Fred Whipple. Holds archives of the following professional societies (including journal records and referee reports for some of them): Am. Arachnological Soc., Am. Assoc. for Zoological Nomenclature, Am. Assoc. of Museums, Am. Fisheries Soc., Am. Ornithologists Union, Am. Soc. of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Am. Soc. of Mammalogists, Am. Soc. of Zoologists, Animal Behavior Society, Assoc. of Systematics Collections, Assoc. of Field Ornithologists, Atlantic Estuarine Research Soc., Audubon Naturalist Soc. of the Central Atlantic States, Baird Ornithological Club of Washington DC, Biolo gical Soc. of Washington, Botanical Soc. of Washington, Charles Darwin Foundation, Chesapeake Research Consortium, Coleopterists' Soc., Colonial Waterbird Group, Crustacean Soc., Eastern Bird Banding Assoc., Entomological Soc. of Washington, Estuarine Res earch Federation, Herpetologists' League, Int. Cong. of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, Int. Cong. of Entomologists, Int. Ornithological Committee, Int. Soc. for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Int. Theriological Cong., Int. Union of Directors of Zoological Gardens, Museum Computer Network, Museum Education Roundtable, Nat. Conservation Advisory Council, Philosophical Soc. of Washington, Soc. for Marine Mammalogy, Soc. of Systematic Zoology, Soc. of Vertebrate Paleontology, Washington Academy of Sciences, Washington Conservation Guild. Finding aids have been prepared for most of the collections. There is a computerized index, "SIBIS" (to become "SIRIS") to the collections (providing partial access to names of correspondents and persons mentioned in interviews) which will be available by 1995 through INTERNET. See Guide to the Smithsonian Archives (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Archives, 1983); summary of research in the "Smithsonian Institition Archives" by William A. Deiss, History of Science in America News and Views, vol. 9, no. 1 (Summer 1992).
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program (1986-91) yielded a collection of videotapes on American science and technology, including aeronautics and space exploration, astronomical telescopes and observation techniques, clock manufa cture, computer development, conservation of endangered species, DNA sequencing, medical technology (CAT scanner), the Manhattan Project, paleontology, robotics, slate quarrying, small arms design and manufacture, Soviet space. Included are interviews of Harold M. Agnew, Jack Albert, Frederick L. Ashworth, Robert Bacher, Kenneth Bainbridge, Albert Boggess, Norris E. Bradbury, Smithsonian Institution Archives - Videohistory Program (cont.) Nathaniel Carleton, G. Arthur Cooper, J. Presper Eckert, Herbert Friedman, Mack Jett Fulwyler, Margaret J. Geller, Leonore A. Herzenberg, Albert R. Hibbs, Leroy E. Hood, Jack N. James Lewis D. Kaplan, Amrom Katz, Robert Ledley, Philip Morrison, Oran W. Nicks, Norman F. Ramsey Jr., Marcos Boris Rotman, Robert Serber, Eugene Morrison Stoner, Alvin M. Weinberg, Fred L. Whipple, Robert Wilson, Eugene P. Wigner, Albert Wohlstetter, Charles Worley. See: Guide to the Collections of the Smithsonian Videohistory Program by Joan M. Mathys et al. (1992); 6); "Videohistory: Focusing on the American Past" by Pamela M. Henson & Terri A. Schorzman, Journal of American History (Sept. 1991): 618-27; A Practi cal Introduction to Videohistory: The Smithsonian Institution and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Experiment, edited by Terri A Schorzman (Malabar, FL: Krieger Pub. Co., 1993).
Smithsonian Institution -- National Air and Space Museum -- National Air and Space Archives Division NASM, Room 3100, Mail Stop 314 7th St. & Independence Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20560 (202) 357-3133 [use "Smithsonian" or "L'Enfant Plaza" Metro station] Collection can be used by appointment (preferably at least a week in advance) Archives - Garber unit, located in Bldg. 12, Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration and Storage Facility, 3904 Old Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746 (301) 238-3480 Archivist: Thomas Soapes Photo archivist: Melissa Keiser Scope: material related to aviation and space, with emphasis on technology; preference for items supporting artefacts in the Museum; women and minorities in aviation. The most popular parts of the collection are photos and technical drawings. The Archives Division maintains two locations for storage and reference use of collections. The Archives - Mall (in NASM) houses the archives administration, the film archives office, the most frequently used photo archives, and the Technical Files. The Archives - Garber (at Suitland) houses approximately 90% of the paper collections, the audio tape collection, the le ss frequently used photograph collections, and the microform collections [s]. Holds papers of the following engineers and scientists: A. Francis Arcier, Charles W. Chillson, Henry Coanda, Glenn H. Curtiss, Randolph Fordham Hall, Karl Gordon Henize, Gerard Post Herrick, Jerome Clarke Hunsaker [s], Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl, Lovell Lawrence Jr., Willy Ley [s], James Vernon Martin, Hiram S. Maxim, Smithsonian Institution -- National Air and Space Museum -- National Air and Space Archives Division (continued) Thomas Taylor Neill, Homer Edward Newell Jr., Arthur Nutt, S. Fred Singer, George Paul Sutton, Thomas Towle, Ralph Hazlett Upson, Alfred Victor Verville, Fred E. Weick, Peter W. Westburg, Leo J. Windecker, Wilbur Wright [s]. Photograph collections include those related to work of Sherman Mills Fairchild [s], Robert Hutchings Goddard [s], G. Edward Pendray [s], and the Wright brothers [s]. Holds records and related collections for several organizations including: Aircraft Radio Corporation, Am. Astronautical Soc., Aviation and Aviation Week (photo collection), Bellcomm Inc. Technical Reports Library (88 CF, reports by NASA and its contracto rs on space medicine, projects Mercury, Gemini, Surveyor), Curtiss-Wright Corp., Fairchild Industries, General Electric Co. (Turbine engine collection), National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Peenem&uum l;nde experimental station, Rockwell HiMAT Remotely-Piloted Research Vehicle, U. S. Army Air Forces/Air Force, U. S. Supersonic Transport Program. See: Guide to the Collections of the National Air and Space Archives by P. E. Silbermann and S. E. Ewing (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1991).
Smithsonian Institution -- National Air & Space Museum - Department of Space History (202) 357-2828 Chairman: Gregg Herken Conducts an oral history program on space exploration and space science, the Hubble Space Telescope, the German Peenemunde rocket project, and the Rand Corporation; interview transcripts are available for research. The Glennan-Webb-Seamans Project has interviews with J. Leland Atwood, Delmer Bradshaw, James R. Burnett, Paul Demitriades, Edward Doll, Peter Downey, Brian Duff, James Elms, James Fletcher, Robert Gilruth, T. Keith Glennan, Donald Jacobs, Ruben F. Mettler, Mark Miller, George Mueller, Samuel Phillips, Simon Ramo, Robert Seamans, Willis Shapley, Abe Silverstein, David Soergel, Harrison Storms, James Webb, Thorton A. Wilson, Herbert York. Emphasis of the interviews is on NASA management practice during the Apollo program. Topics include Boeing, Ramo-Wooldridge, Johnson Manned Space Flight Center, U. S. Air Force, NACA, North American, congressional interactions, Werner von Braun. The Peenemunde Project examines the development of the German rocket development project at Peenemunde from the early 1930s through World War II. It has interviews with: Werner Karl Dahm, Konrad K. Danneberg, Walter Haeussermann, Karl Heimberg, Helmut Hoelzer, Fritz Mueller, Herman Oberth, Eberhard Rees and Mrs Rees, Gerhard Reisig, Arthur Rudolph, Bernhard Tessman, Georg von Tiesenhausen, Walter Wiesman. Topics include military technology, rocket development, relations with Nazi government, Luftwaffe, guidance systems, computer development, spaceflight engineering, Wernher von Braun. The RAND History Project has interviews with Bruno Augenstein, Robert Bacher, Edward Barlow, Robert Belzer, Paul Blasingame, Edward L. Bowles, Frank Collbohm, Merton Davies, Lee DuBridge, Richard H. Frick, Lawrence J. Henderson, Charles Hitch, Amrom Katz, Scott J. King, Burt Klein, David Novick, Malcolm Palmatier, Ernst Plessett, Edward Quade, Smithsonian Institution -- National Air & Space Museum - Department of Space History (Continued) RAND History Project (continued) Arthur Raymond, Ben Rumph, Robert Salter, Bernard Schriever, Gustave Shubert, Hans Speier, George Tanham, Crawford C. Thompson, Albert Wohlstetter. Topics include Caltech, Douglas Aircraft, U. S. Air Force, aerospace technology, applied mathematics, photographic reconnaissance, systems analysis, military technology, MIT Radiation Laboratory, social science, John von Neumann. The Space Astronomy Oral History Project has interviews with: Jules Aaron, William Alvin Baum, William Behring, Jay Thor Bergstrahl, Richard Bleach, William Brunk, Arthur Dodd Cope, Jerry Conner, Frank Donald Drake, William G. Fastie, Lorence Fraser, Herbert Friedman, Phyllis Frier, Robert Frosch, George Gianopolis, Thomas Gold, Leo Goldberg, Martin Otto Harwit, Ralph Havens, Albert Roach Hibbs, Noel Hinners, Hans Rich Hinteregger, Charles Yothers Johnson, Francis S. Johnson, Adolph Simon Jursa, Henry Kondracki, Ernest Henry Krause, Alfred O. Neir [i.e., Nier], Gerry Neugebauer, Werner Martin Neupert, Ray Leon Newburn, Gordon Allen Newkirk, Edward P. Ney, Charles Robert O'Dell, William Hayward Pickering, Richard W. Porter, James D. Purcell, William A. Rense, Walter Orr Roberts, Nancy Grace Roman, Milton W. Rosen, Dan Scheiderman, Martin Schwarzschild, Richard Silberstein, John Simpson, Lyman Spitzer Jr., Kaj Aage Strand, Nelson Spencer, John Strong, Gerald Frederick Tape, Clyde William Tombaugh, Richard Tousey, Mona Tycz, James Van Allen, Gerald Joseph Wasserburg, James Edwin Webb, James A. Westphal, Charles Edward Whitsett, Fred Wilshusen, George Withbroe. Topics include "Big Science," balloon research, rocket development, use of V-2 rockets for research, satellites, astrophysics, solar physics, cosmic rays, lunar and planetary studies, radio and X-ray astronomy, stellar astronomy, instrumentation, ultravi olet spectroscopy, NASA programs, Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO), upper atmosphere and ionospheric research, science education (personal experiences). There are also interviews with groups at Ball Brothers (contractor for early OSO's and Skylab). See: Space Astronomy Oral History Project Catalogue by D. H. DeVorkin et al. (Washington, DC: National Air & Space Museum, 1985) The Space Telescope History Project has interviews with Bob Adams, M. Aucremanne, John Bahcall, Neta Bahcall, William Baum, Michael J. S. Belton, Marc Bensimon, Robert Bless, Greg Boeshaar, Albert Boggess III, John Brandt, Robert A. Brown, Bert Bulkin, Margaret E. Burbidge, J. J. Caldwell, Frank Carr, Clark R. Chapman, John Clark, Art Code, Frank V. Costa, E. G. Danielson, Arthur Davidsen, Mike Disney, James A. Downey III, Rodger Doxsey, Frank K. Edmondson, James L. Elliot, Garvin Emanuel, William G. Fastie, George Field, Don Fordyce, Riccardo Giacconi, Alan Goldberg, Edward Groth, Arun K. Guha, Don Hall, Richard Harms, Kitty Havens, Richard Henry, Noel Hinners, William W. Keathley, J. Warren Keller, Sam Keller, Ivan King, A. L. Lane, Barry Lasker, Robin J. Laurance, David Leckrone, Malcolm Longair, John L. Lowrance, Kent Meserve, Jesse L. Mitchell, Jim Moore, Max Nein, Don Nosh, Memphis Norman, T. Bland Norris, James B. Odom, Jean R. Olivier, Charles Pellerin, Arthur J. Reetz, Jack Rehnberg, Nancy Roman, James Rose, Jeffrey D. Rosendhal, Jane Russell, Ethan Schreier, Daniel J. Schroeder, Thomas J. Sherrill, F. Pete Simmons, Stanley Sobieski, Fred A. Speer, Lyman Spitzer, Peter Stockman, Ernst Stuhlinger, John Teem, Domenick Tenerelli, William G. Tifft, Robert Trevino, Hedrik C. van de Hulst, Edward Weiler, James C. Welch, James A. Westphal, Richard L. White, Ray Zedekar. Topics include modern astronomy, astronomical instrumentation and data processing, computer software development, congressional interactions and lobbying, sociology of astronomy, spaceflight engineering, guidance systems, NASA management and relations wit h astronomers, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory program, Goddard Space Flight Center, Marshall Space Center, Johnson Space Center, Space Telescope Institute at Johns Hopkins, Perkin-Elmer, Naval Research Laboratory, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Lo ckheed. See: Space Astronomy Oral History Project Catalogue (Washington, DC: National Air & Space Museum, 1985); "Interviewing physicists and astronomers: Methods in Oral History," by D. H. DeVorkin, in Physicists look back: Studies in the History of Physics ed . J. Roche (London: Adam Hilger, 1990); Oral History on Space, Science, and Technology: A Catalog of the Collection of the Department of Space History by Martin J. Collins with Jo Ann Bailey and Patricia Fredericks (Washington, DC: National Air and Space Museum, 1993); summary of staff research by Paul E. Ceruzzi in History of Science in America - News and Views, vol. 8, no. 2 (Winter 1991).
National Air and Space Museum Library, Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey Room (202) 357-3133 Holds papers of the Aerial Experiment Association, 1907- [s] (3 vols, Alexander Graham Bell, Glenn H. Curtiss, F. W. Baldwin, A. D. McCurdy, Thomas Selfridge).
National Air and Space Museum - Space Science and Exploration Department Holds the National Bureau of Standards Computer Literature Collection [co] (65 CF)
Smithsonian Institution -- National Museum of American History -- Archives Center 12th Street and Constitution Avenue Washington, DC 20560 (202) 357-3270 Chief Archivist: John A. Fleckner Deputy Archivist: Robert S. Harding Holds manuscripts relating to the history of American technology and science, especially electricity, radio, computers, mechanical & civil engineering, plastics, and railroads, including papers and interview transcripts of: Howard Aiken (OH), John Atanasoff (OH) Leo H. Baekeland, John Beemer, Robert W. Bemer [co], Uriah A. Boyden [a], Walter Guyton Cady [e] (18 LF, electrical discharges, piezoelectricity, ultrasonics), George H. Clark [e] (276 LF, radio), John William Draper and family [a], Allen Balcolm Du Mont [e] (34 LF, radio), Saul Dushman [c] [e] (7 LF, physical chemistry, atomic physics, electron emission, quantum mechanics, General Electric Co.), Lloyd Espenschied [e] (11 LF, radio, telephone) Jay W. Forrester (OH) Elisha Gray [e] (1 LF, telephone, John Beemer), William Joseph Hammer [e] (30 LF, A. G. Bell, Emile Berliner, William Thomson Lord Kelvin, Nikola Tesla, Sylvanus P. Thompson, Elihu Thomson, Francis R. Upton, Alfred Vail, electric lighting), Grace Murray Hopper [co] (OH) James R. Killian Jr. (OH) Erasmus D. Leavitt [e] (17 CF, mechanical engineering), Charles Thomas George Looney [e] (9LF, civil engineering, materials testing) Ladislau Laszlo Marton, John Mauchly (OH), Montgomery Meigs, Donald H. Menzel (OH) Nick Metropolis (OH), Philip Morse (OH) Smithsonian Institution -- National Museum of American History -- Archives Center (continued) Charles Richardson Pratt [e] (4 LF, mechanical engineering) Jacob Rabinow, Mina Rees (OH), Oscar W. Richards, Kenneth M. Swezey [e] (8 LF, Nikola Tesla, induction motor, history of electricity, radio) Elihu Thomson (2 CF, electrical engineering) An Wang (OH), Sherwood Washburn (OH), Paul Gray Watson [e] (6 v, history of electron tube) Holds records of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies-- Computer History Project [e]; American National Standards Institute [co]; Association for Computing Machinery (Washington, DC chapter); Dr. Rubin Borasky Electron Microscopy Collection, ca. 1942-1981; James C. Childs Numerical Control Collection, 1952-1970; Computer Oral History Collection [co]; Kern Dental Equipment Collection 1936-1979; MIT Whirlwind Computer Collection [co]; Mathemati cal Devices History Collection [co]; Niagara Falls Power Co. [e]; Share Numerical Analysis Project 1964-1970; Society for History of Technology; Western Union Telegraph Co. 1848-1963 [e] (25 LF); Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. [e]. Medical/dental collections include records from the University of Pennsylvania, Maryland Medical and Chirugical Faculty, Speech Synthesis History Project, Linda Richards correspondence, Kevin M. Tuohy papers, James Beall Morrison correspondence, William C . Dolowy collection. Collections are listed in the computer catalog (SIBIS, SIRIS) but not as fully cross-referenced as the Smithsonian Archives holdings; finding aids are available for major collections. See: Guide to Manuscript Collections in the National Museum of History and Technology (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978)
Smithsonian Institution -- National Museum of American History -- Dibner Library Located on the 1st floor. (202) 357-1568 or 1577 Librarian: Ellen Wells Part of the Special Collections Department of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Sponsors 2 fellowships. Scope: history of science and technology since the Renaissance, especially electricity, magnetism, astronomy, chemistry, pharmacy, physics. Holds letters, documents, photographs and portraits of the following (this list includes only persons for which there are 10 or more items, as indicated in parentheses): George Biddell Airy (69), Giovanni Aldini (80), Jean LeRond d'Alembert (12), Andre Marie Ampère (14), D. F. J. Arago (32), John Lubbock, Baron Avebury (30), Charles Babbage (13), Alexander Dallas Bache (uncat.), Joseph Banks (21), Alexander Graham Bell (11 + 25 vols. of typewritten weekly lab records), Marcellin P. E. Berthelot (12), Claude Louis Berthollett (12), Jean Baptiste Biot (11), David Brewster (17), Marc Isambard Brunel (11), Robert W. Bunsen (15), Michel Chasles (12), Michel Eugène Chevreul (13), William Crookes (18), Georges Cuvier (21), Charles Darwin (42), Albert Einstein (57), Johann Franz Encke (12), John Ericsson (15), Michael Faraday (115), Cyrus West Field (100), Emil Fischer (10), A. H. L. Fizeau (12), Camille Flammarion (18), A. F. de Fourcroy (11), J. B. J. Fourier (16), Karl Friedrich Gauss (12), Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (10), Asa Gray (10), Fritz Haber (12, mostly photos), Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (28), Hermann von Helmholtz (12), Joseph Henry (35), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (13), Joseph Dalton Hooker (25), Alexander von Humboldt (24), Thomas Henry Huxley (68), Smithsonian Institution -- National Museum of American History -- Dibner Library (continued) Louis Charles Karpinski (10), William Thomson Lord Kelvin (41), Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (10), Joseph Jerôme Le Français de Lalande (20), Charles Lyell (11), Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace (16), Max von Laue (12), Ferdinand de Lesseps (11), U. J. J. LeVerrier (27), Charles Gaspard de La Rive (11), Ernst Mach (ca. 150), Guglielmo Marconi (14), Hermann Minkowski (11), Samuel F. B. Morse (22), Roderick Impey Murchison (17), Isaac Newton (18), Jean Antoine Nollet [e] (99, Etienne François Dutout), Hans Christian Oersted (18), Richard Owen (14), Max Planck (14), Henri Poincaré (11), Jean Victor Poncelet (12), Joseph Popper-Lynkeus (25), Joseph Priestley (76 leaves of letters & portraits), Norman Ramsey (uncat. materials re Manhattan Project), John William Strutt baron Rayleigh (14), Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (140), Henry Enfield Roscoe (10), Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville (19), Anton Schrötter (11), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (11), William Smith (13), James South (12), Johannes Stark (12), John Tyndall (75), Alfred Russel Wallace (22), James Watt (11i), Charles Wheatstone (22), Friedrich Wöhler (18). In addition there are several items on alchemy, electricity, magnetism, and pharmacy. See: Manuscripts of the Dibner Collection in the Dibner Library (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 1985); a typescript list of "Uncataloged Manuscripts in SIL Special Collections" is available in the library. A publication based on docum ents in the collection is: B. J. T. Dobbs, Alchemical Death and Resurrection: The Significance of Alchemy in the Age of Newton (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 1990).
Smithsonian Institution -- National Museum of American History -- Department of History of Science and Technology Chairman: Arthur P. Molella The scope of the collections is indicated by the names and specialities of the various Divisions: Agriculture and Natural Resources (food and mineral technology); Armed Forces History (weapons and warship technology; equipment associated with polar expedi tions, navigation instruments); Biological Sciences (instruments, laboratories, social/- political aspects, women & minorities in science); Computers, Information, and Society; Electricity and Modern Physics (including communications technology, and the T exas Instruments collection on solid-state engineering; masers and lasers, particle accelerators and detectors, atomic clocks); Engineering and Industry (railroad, bridge, tunnel, plumbing and heating technology; machine tools, robotics, clocks); Medical Sciences (drugs, instruments); Physical Sciences (instruments from Coast Survey and Naval Observatory, surveying instruments, chemical apparatus of Joseph Priestley), Transportation (other than air & space). Sponsors the editorial office of Technology and Culture. See: Guide to Manuscript Collections in the National Museum of History and Technology (1978). Note that many of the collections of papers listed in earlier directories have been transferred to the NMAH Archives Center (see above).
Smithsonian Institution -- National Museum of Natural History National Anthropological Archives 10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20560 (202) 357-1976 Open 9 am - 5 pm M-F except national holidays. Reproduction services available. Senior Archivist: James R. Glenn Holds papers of anthropologists and American ethnologists, and a few archeologists, ethnobotanists, geographers and linguists; records of organizations. Includes the Smithsonian official records of the former Bureau of American Ethnology, which holds mate rials on the study of Native Americans; Center for the Study of Man; Department of Anthropology; Institute for Social Anthropology; and River Basin Surveys. There are large collections of North American linguistic data. Offical records and MS collection s, mostly 1847-1975, amount to about 6600 CF. Included among historical manuscripts and private papers are correspondence; vocabularies, grammar notes, and texts; ethnographic and archeological field notes and reports; cartographic items; and sound recor dings. The photographic holdings, mostly 1860-1960, are estimated at 350,000 images, and include large series relating to the archeological work of the River Basin Surveys and to the survey of male physiques by the U. S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine during the 1940s. Holds material from: Ethel M. Albert, J. Lawrence Angel, Homer G. Barnett, Robert LeMoyne Barrett, Ralph L. Beals, Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, William B. Cabot, William E. Carter. William A. Caudill, Henry B. Collins, Carleton S. Coon, James O. Dorsey, Philip Drucker, Jesse Walter Fewkes, John L. Fischer, James A. Ford, O. R. Gallagher, Richard L. Garner, Albert S. Gatschet, Gordon D. Gibson, Esther S. Goldfrank, Marcus S. Goldstein, Smithsonian Institution -- National Museum of Natural History National Anthropological Archives (continued) Joel M. Halpern, John P. Harrington, R. King Harris, Robert F. Heizer, J. N. B. Hewitt, Sister Inez Hiler, John J. Honigmann, James H. Howard, Ales Hrdlicka, Carol Jopling, Neil M. Judd, Eugene I. Knez, Herbert William Krieger, Weston La Barre, Francis La Flesche, Ruth S. Landes, Robert M. Laughlin, Jerry V. Leech, Anthony Leeds, Donald J. Lehmer, Dorothea C. Leighton, William A. Lessa, William Lipkind, Robert Francis Mahar, Thomas B. Marquis, Leonard Mason, Otis T. Mason, Washington Matthews, George McCutcheon McBride, Gordon Macgregor, Truman Michelson, James Mooney Philleo Nash, Jesse L. Nusbaum Frans Olbrechts, G. Geiger Omwake, Edward Palmer, James C. Pilling, John Wesley Powell, Charles Rau, Dache M. Reeves, Conrad C. Reining, F. L. W. Richardson, Saul H. Riesenberg, Louise Robbins, Frank H. H. Roberts Jr., Rez Roheim, Harold K. Schneider, William H. Sheldon, Mary Slusser, Aidan W. Southall, Albert Spaulding, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Julian H. Stewart, Matthew W. Stirling, William Duncan Strong, John R. Swanton, Sol Tax, Walter W. Taylor, Laura Thompson, Antonio Waring Jr., Mildred M. Wedel, Waldo Rudolph Wedel, A. F. Whiting Also holds papers of the following organizations: American Anthropological Association, American Dermatoglyphics Association, American Ethnological Society, American Society for Conservation Archaeology, American Society for Ethnohistory, Anthropological Society of Washington, Central States Anthropological Society, Committee on Anthropological Research in Museums, Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology, Northeastern Anthropological Association, Society for American Archaeology, Smithsonian Institution -- National Museum of Natural History National Anthropological Archives (continued) Society for Applied Anthropology, Society for Historical Archaeology, Society for Medical Anthropology, Society for Visual Anthropology, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Southern Anthropological Society, and Southwestern Anthropological Association . See: Catalog to Manuscripts at the National Anthropological Archives (G. K. Hall, 1975); Guide to the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, by James R. Glenn. Washington, DC: National Anthropological Archives, 1992.
University of Maryland Baltimore County -- American Society for Microbiology Archives, and Center for the History of Microbiology. Albin O. Kuhn Library, UMBC, 5401 Wilkens Avenue, Catonsville, MD 21228. (410) 455-3601; FAX (410) 455-1088 Archivist: Jeffrey Karr. Holdings: more than 5000 books; all issues of journals published by the ASM; records of ASM, papers of past officers; over 10,000 photographs and slides; collection on biological warfare. Also the primary repository for the International Union for Micro biological Societies.
University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD 20742 Archives and Manuscripts Department - McKeldin Library (301) 405-9058 Archivist: Anne S. K. Turkos Holds papers of: John Alexander (geology) P. D. Brown (agriculture), Johannes M. Burgers (45 LF, aerodynamics, DNA, meteorology, philosophy of science, rheology, G. K. Batchelor, B. J. Bok, J. Bronowski, J. W. Chamberlain, S. Chandrasekhar, S. Chapman, S. Corrsin, Edward M. Corson, R. Courant, J. R. Dorfman, Paul Ehrenfest, Walter M. Elsasser, P. P. Ewald, F. N. Frenkiel, K. O. Friedrichs, Sydney Goldstein, S. A. Goudsmit, H. Grad, Eberhard Hopf, A. S. Iberall, P. Janssens, H. Jehle, A. R. Kantrowitz, M. Krook, L. Landau, O. LaPorte, T. Levi-Civita, C. C. Lin, W. V. R. Malkus, P. M. Matthews, A. Michels, R. Minkowski, E. W. Montroll, R. L. Moore, J. R. Oppenheimer, S. I. Pai, M. Reiner, R. S. Rivlin, L. I. Schiff, S. F. Singer, G. I. Taylor, C. Truesdell, G. E. Uhlenbeck, F. A. Vening Meinesz, T. von Karman, R. von Mises, J. von Neumann, C. H. Waddington, F. J. Whipple, A. M. Yaglom) [fa], Geary Eppley (animal husbandry) Laurence B. Heilprin [co] (47 b, Council on Library Resources - computer applications to information retrieval) [fa] Morley Jull (poultry science) Helmut Landsberg (20 LF, climatology, meteorology, C. G. Abbot, John Eddy, Karl Keil, Frederick Sargent, Julian Simon, Fred Singer, Henry Stommel) [fa], Romeo Mansueti (fish) Elliott Waters Montroll (9 LF, statistical mechanics, transportation science, Ralph A. Alpher, P. W. Anderson, Mark Ya. Azbel, Michael B. Bever, Robin K. Bullough, Morris Cohen, Freeman Dyson, Shigeji Fujita, Walter Kohn, James A. Krumhansl, Renfrey Potts, F. Reif, J. R. Schrieffer, Kurt E. Shuler, Maurice J. Sinnott, R. Smoluchowski, Robert L. Sproull, George Stell, University of Maryland at College Park Archives and Manuscripts Department - McKeldin Library (continued) Robb Thomson, George K. Vineyard, John A. Wheeler, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Center for Naval Analyses, Environmental Protection Agency, Institute for Defense Analyses, International Business Machines, Jason, Naval Research Advisory Committee, University of Rochester) [fa] Mary S. Shorb (34 b, vitamin B12, poultry husbandry, animal nutrition, pernicious anemia, George Briggs, Karl Folkers, David Hendlin, E. E. Howe, T. J. Jukes, H. W. Schoelein, T. R. Wood, H. B. Woodruff) [fa] Also holds records of Galaxy, Inc., 1949-1984 (chemical processes, anti-pollution technology, Robert Ware Straus) Engineering and Physical Sciences Library Mathematics Building (301) 454-3037 Holds papers of Richard von Mises [s] (217 boxes of reprints, some containing annotations and correspondence) Engineering and Physical Sciences Library, Technical Reports Center (301) 405-9161 Librarian: Gloria Chawla. Contains nearly 2 million scientific and technical reports (both paper copy and microforms), mostly from U. S. government-sponsored research. It is a depository library for NASA and contains reports from NACA dating back to 1915. Since 1965 it has been a depository library for reports published by the Rand Corporation, including those on social science. There are reports by UMCP faculty members in mathematics, engineering and physical science; reports from U. S. and foreign universities; water resources and geology reports (shelved by state). Information about U. S. Government-sponsored research and development reports may be obtained from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Database, available by search from terminals in EPSL and elsewhere. Many other report indexes are availab le in hard copy.
University of Virginia -- Library Manuscripts Department and University Archives Charlottesville, VA 22908 Holds records of the Virginia Electric and Power Co., 1968-74 [e] (10 LF, nuclear power) Health Sciences Center Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Box 234 Charlottesville, VA 22908 (804) 924-0052 Contact: Joan Echtenkamp Klein Access: Open M-F 8 am-noon, 1-3 pm, or by appointment Holds collections on Yellow Fever, papers of Wade Hampton Frost, Thomas H. Hunter, and Walter O. Klingman; institutional records.
Virginia Commonwealth University Tompkins-McCaw Library Special Collections and Archives MCV Box 582 Richmond, VA 23113-0582 (804) 786-9898 Department Head: John H. Whaley, Jr. Archivist: Jodi Koste Curatorial Assistant: Ted Batt Open: M-F 8 am-5 pm, and by appointment. Holds: papers of Virginia health practitioners; records of the Medical College of Virginia and of Virginia health organizations, particularly nursing; and a medical artifact collection. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Archives of American Aerospace Exploration Blacksburg, VA 24061-0434 (703) 961-6308 Scope: aeronautical engineering, spacecraft engineering, astronomy Holds papers of Melvin N. Gough [s] (20 CF), Samuel Herrick [s] (60 CF, Robert H. Goddard), Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. [s] (25 CF), Thornton L. Page [s] (1 CF), John T. Parsons [s] (200 CF), Hartley A. Soule [2 CF], Marjorie Rhodes Townsend [s] (2 CF) and others [s]. Library, Special Collections (703) 961-6308 Holds papers of John A. N. Lee [co] (3 CF, computer science) Carol M. Newman Library Special Collections Blacksburg, VA 24061 Holds papers of W. Graham Clayton [e] (3 CF, electrical engineering, radio) Wallops Flight Facility, NASA (a unit of Goddard Space Flight Center) Wallops Island, VA 23337 (804) 824-1540 or 1579 Holds a collection of staff and contractor reports on sounding rocket program (pertains to NASA programs).
Walters Art Gallery North Charles Street Baltimore, MD Holds a 14th-century Latin translation of Aristotle's Meteors [m] and a 1466 manuscript of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura [m]. suggestions of other archives (from William Day at Chesney Archives) Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland Baltimore (410) 539-6642 American Urological Association Baltimore (410) 727-1100 Adolf Meyer Library Meyer Bldg, Johns Hopkins Hospital (410) 955-5819 Lilienfeld Library JHU School of Hygiene and Public Health Hampton House (410) 955-3028 Library of the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute Marburg Bldg, Johns Hopkins Hospital (410) 955-4494 (from Michael Rhode) National Geographic image collection (202) 857-7537 George Washington U - central location for the Collections:DC database, which lists collections on Washington Smithsonian - Div. of Horticulture Library? U. S. Naval Medical Dept., Bureau of Medicine & Surgery Historian, Jan Yerman (202) 653-1297 (from Anne Turkos) Richard J. Behles (410) 706-5048 UMAB Health Sciences Library 111 S. Greene St/. Baltimore MD 21201 Burgers & Landsberg - long version Johannes M. Burgers (45 LF, aerodynamics, DNA, meteorology philosophy of science, rheology, S. Amlinckx, John P. Barach, J. Bass, G. K. Batchelor, E. R. Benton, N. J. Berrill, Robert Betchov, P. P. Bijlaard, David Bladestock, B. J. Bok, H. R. Branson, H . J. Bremermann, R. Brinkman, L. J. F. Broer, S. Broersma, J. Bronowski, H. G. Bungenburg de Jong, Wylie Burge, H. Cabannes, G. Carriere, B. B. Chakaraborty, J. W. Chamberlain, S. Chandrasekhar, C. C. Chang, S. Chapman, F. Chayes, K. P. Chopra, G. D. Colc hagoff, B. J. Collette, S. Corrsin, Edward M. Corson, R. Courant, J. D. Cowan, A. Craya, Jerome Daen, P. C. T. de Boer, W. J. de Haas, Lokenath Debnath, J. B. Diaz, J. R. Dorfman, J. J. Dronkers, Jacques Duclaux, Paul Ehrenfest, F. R. Eirich, Walter M. El sasser, A. Cemal Eringen, P. P. Ewald, A. J. Favre, C. Ferrari, R. G. Fowler, J. M. Fraser, R. Fraser, W. F. Freiberger, F. N. Frenkiel, R. Friedenberg, E. Friel, K. O. Friedrichs, K. S. Gage, Itaro Gamo, M. Garstens, Aldo Giorgini, Sydney Goldstein, Mari o Gosalvez, S. A. Goudsmit, H. Grad, W. H. Graf, J. H. [H. J.?] Greidnaus, H. J. Groenewald, G. L. Grohs, R. A. Gross, L. A. Grossman, A. S. Gupta, A. Haberstich, F. Hama, J. R. Hamann, W. Harvey, G. G. Haydu, W. D. Hayes, Robert Hemphill, J. J. Hermans, J. O. Hinse, N. J. Hoff, Eberhard Hopf, Iwao Hosokawa, C. T. Hsu, Y. K. Hsu, M. A. Hyman, A. S. Iberall, R. S. Iyengar, R. K. Jaggi, P. Janssens, H. Jehle, R. K. Jindia, Elizabeth Johnson, F. D. Kahn, A. R. Kantrowitz, L. R. Kass, P. J. Kipp, Martin J. Kl ein, R. T. Knapp, T. Koga, W. T. Koiter, I. I. Kolodner, D. H. Koppel, L. S. G. Kovasznay, R. H. Kraichnan, D. V. Krishnarao, M. Krook, G. Kuerti, A. M. Kuethe, P. G. Kuntz, L. Landau, O. LaPorte, Herbert Lashinski, J. A. Laurman, T. Levi-Civita, M. B. Le wis, H. W. Liepmann, T. Y. Li, C. C. Lin, T. L. Lincoln, V. Lowe, J. L. Lumley, H. J. MacGillvary, W. V. R. Malkus, F. E. Marble, M. Marden, M. H. Martin, R. S. Marvin, P. M. Matthews, A. Mazzella, A. Michels, I. Michelson, C. B. Millikan, R. Minkowski, M . Mitchner, E. W. Montroll, R. L. Moore, C. S. Morawetz, H. Mosiman, M. P. Nakada, J. Neufeld, Peter D. Noerdlinger, Sin-Keun Oh, J. R. Oppenheimer, B. Ouyang, S. I. Pai, H. H. Pattee, J. Peres, A. C. Pipkin, I. Pollin, J. Pomerantz, N. Postma, W. Prager , L. Pyenson, J. Raat, A. Ramakrishnan, W. H. Reid, M. Reiner, D. P. Riabouchinsky, J. S. Rinehart, R. S. Rivlin, Ervin Y. Rodin, Joel C. W. Rogers, R. R. Rosen, Murray Rosenblatt, Nichols Rott, Hunter Rouse, A. J. Rutgers, Y.Saito, K. Sakurai, D. W. Sall et, J. D. Sanderson, M. P. Sawhney, S. J. Schecher, W. J. Schaffers, L. I. Schiff, S. Schreier, F. Schultz-Grunow, L. E. Scriven, W. R. Sears, R. J. Seeger, J. Semmes, S. R. Sharma, S. F. Shen and W. G. N. Slinn, A. J. Schneidrov, S. F. Singer, M. P. Sing h, G. R. Smit, W. Squire, J. A. Steketee, D. J. Struik, K. Suchy, A. Tanakadate, T. Tatsumi, G. I. Taylor, Chan-Mou Tchen, D. J. Tembharey, G. Temple, P. J. Theodorides, R. N. Thomas, Tan Tjong-Kie, G. L. Trigg, L. Troost, C. Truesdell, U. S. Uberoi, G. E . Uhlenbeck, D. van Dantzig, L. A. van de Putte, W. van der Woude, Milton van Dyke, G. Van Iterson Jr., W. R. van Wijk, V. A. Vanoni, F. A. Vening Meinesz, T. von Karman, R. and H. von Mises, J. von Neumann, C. H. Waddington, E. H. Walker, J. H. Wayland, A. Weinstein, John R. Weske, H. D. Weymann, F. J. Whipple, L. L. Whyte, T. D. Wilkerson, R. A. Williams, Witteman, L. C. Woods, A. M. Yaglom, H. T. Yang, J. T. Yen, W. W. Zachary, Sigi Ziering) fa Helmut Landsberg (20 LF, climatology, meteorology, C. G. Abbot, Franz Baur, Vlastimil Belohlavek, Dorothy and Kay Bonneau, Wayne V. Burt, Stanley Changnon, Jacques Bettwiller, Chowm Shu Djen, Hans Dolezalek, Dennis Driscoll, Robert Durrenberger, John Edd y, W. Gleisberg, John F. Griffiths, G. Grundke, Frank Haurwitz, Yozo Itoh, Karl Keil, Peter Lamb, Friedrich Lauscher, Helmut Lieth, Vivian Loftness, Gertrude London, Mary K. Matossian, David H. Miller, James E. Newman, James Norwine, Tim R. Oke, John E. O liver, Heinz Panzram, Sverre Petterson, Frederick Sargent, Christian D. Schoenwiese, Derek Justin Schove, Wilfried Schroeder, Julian Simon, Fred Singer, Henry Stommel, Henry Van Loon) fa
Questions to ask about archives 1. What is the mission of the archive? -- e.g. to serve as a repository for the convenience of administrators of the institution? or to serve the research needs of scholars? To be a passive recipient of institutional records and/or of collections don ated to it, or to actively acquire material? What is the collection policy? Does the archive staff keep current records of people whose papers should be preserved (e.g. senior/eminent employees of the institution) so they can be approached when they reti re or leave? 2. What is the quantity of holdings in science & technology? How should this be measured? (cubic feet? linear feet? number of items?) 3. What proportion is actually available for unrestricted use by scholars? If the archive includes classified documents, is there an ongoing program of declassification? 4. How easy is it to use the archive (especially for first-time visitors)? What hours is it open? (Can a user who is employed full-time during weekdays ever get in?) Is there a knowledgeable person on duty to give information? Is the catalog complet e and well-organized? How long must one wait to get items after submitting a request? Are photocopying facilities available at reasonable cost? How much paperwork and correspondence is needed to get permission to quote from documents? 5. What fraction of the total holdings has been cataloged, with finding aids available for users? Do finding aids include descriptions of all items, e.g. (for letters) with names of correspondents and topics? Are copies of finding aids available at other archives? How are other items (lab notebooks, photos, instruments, etc.) described? 6. Is there an adequate index to the collection, which enables one to retrieve (e.g.) all letters from John Smith in the various parts of the collection, and all letters on specified topics? Is the index available by computer network to off-site users ? What proportion of the holdings are indexed in standard reference works such as NUCMC? 7. Does the archive publish a catalog of its holdings, with periodic revisions? Does it issue a newsletter to inform users of current acquisitions? Does it prepare announcements for publication in other newsletters and scholarly journals? 8. What kind of training do the archivists have? Are they actively conducting and publishing research on topics related to the collection? 9. What are some outstanding examples of recent historical publications based on research in the archive? 10. What proportion of the collection has been copied (e. g. on microform) so that (a) it is accessible to users at other locations and (b) the information would not be completely lost if the original is destroyed or stolen? 11. How much is the archive actually used by scholars? How should this be measured? (number of visitors per day? amount of time they spend, or number of requests they make to look at holdings?) 12. What is the annual budget? What proportion of this goes to (a) salaries of staff (b) preservation of materials (c) cost of maintaining catalog, publications, providing information about holdings (d) "overhead," maintenance of physical facilities (e) insurance to replace materials in case of fire, theft (f) acquisition of new materials (g) other Can one estimate reasonable amounts for these categories on the basis of answers to questions 2 & 11?
Bibliography - general Warnow-Blewett, Joan (1992) "Documenting Recent Science: Progress and Needs." Osiris [2] 7: 267-298. Includes a list of discipline history centers in the U.S.