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Photographs and miscellanea, 1926 - 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 16/59

Scope and Contents

A miscellaneous set of photographs and other items:

Miscellaneous photographs, c. 1932-c. 1974, 1 envelope, including views of Greenwich; staff outings; computers, the Isaac Newton Telescope, Harrison's H4 chronometer and other equipment; D.H. Sadler as President of the Royal Astronomical Society; and Sadler's retirement event.

Five black and white photographs of Smiths' Periscopic Sextant and Mounting and two black and white photographs of a second sextant, 1959, 1 envelope.

Display cards containing mounted photographs with captions, c. 1933-c. 1967, 1 box. The subjects include the bicentenary of the 'Nautical Almanac', 1967; the bicentenary of the Harrison Chronometer, 1964; superintendents of the N.A.O.; staff of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1933; the erection of the Equatorial Group; and the reunion of former staff members of the N.A.O., 27 April 1963. There are also various photographs of different members of staff.

A cork mat covered with figures for interpolation to fourths, designed by T.C. Hudson, September 1926, with notes by D.H. Sadler, 1972 and 1974, 1 folder.

'H.M. Nautical Almanac Office. List of Technical Notes. Second Series', c. 1971, 1 card.









Dates

  • 1926 - 1974

Conditions Governing Access

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

1 archive box(es) (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Finding aid date

2006-08-18 12:17:45+00:00

Includes index.

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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