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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established on March 3, 1865. The duties of the Freedmen’s Bureau included supervision of all affairs relating to refugees, freedmen, and the custody of abandoned lands and property. These documents come from the Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Virginia, Series 7: Records Relating to Specific Bureau Functions.
Project PHaEDRA - Annie Jump Cannon - Annie Cannon Notebooks #110
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At Harvard College Observatory (now the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Women Astronomical Computers studied glass plate photographs of the night sky. Here they cataloged stars, identifying variables, interpreting stellar spectra, counting galaxies, and measuring the vast distances in space. Several of them made game-changing discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics. In these books, follow the work of Annie Jump Cannon, who in 1901 devised a robust and elegant stellar classification scheme that astronomers still use today. Interested in historical women? Love astronomy? Help us transcribe the work of the Harvard Observatory's women computers and see which stars shine the brightest.
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CrystalEcho transcribed the page ETW07 from Project PHaEDRA - Adelaide Ames - [Positions of Nebulae] Coma-Virgo, 1. #G20 (phaedra2311)
Cohentha transcribed the page ERVhw from Project PHaEDRA - Annie Jump Cannon - Annie Cannon Notebooks #128
ness.0125 transcribed the page ETW1w from Project PHaEDRA - Adelaide Ames - [Positions of Nebulae] Coma-Virgo, 1. #G20 (phaedra2311)
Oliva transcribed the page EUrkL from Project PHaEDRA - Ernestine Fuller - Harvard Lunar Plates, Plates 12507, 12508, 12525 #Vol. 179 (phaedra2035)
kfoulks transcribed the page NMAAHC-007630071_00220 from Mississippi Field Offices, Subordinate Field Offices: Meridian (Subcomm.), Miscellaneous Records, 1865–68
RoseSantana transcribed the page ERVh2 from Project PHaEDRA - Annie Jump Cannon - Annie Cannon Notebooks #128
Hat J transcribed the page NMAAHC-007677145_00444 from Virginia Assistant Commissioner, Endorsements Sent, Volume 10 (31), July 3–Dec. 31, 1868
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