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Charles Lang Freer's vouchers for art purchases in 1903. While Freer generally conducted business in English, some papers in this project may include other languages and alphabets or character systems, including Chinese, Japanese, German, and French. Please only transcribe the language(s) with which you are familiar, and reference the Charles Lang Freer Papers Instructions for more information.
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At Harvard College Observatory (now the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian), women computers studied glass plate photographs of the night sky. Here they catalogued 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.
mariana1201 marked for review a page from Project PHaEDRA - Evelyn F. Leland - Miscellaneous Observations - Variables M5 #3
mariana1201 transcribed a page from Project PHaEDRA - Evelyn F. Leland - Miscellaneous Observations - Variables M5 #3
kearnold10 transcribed a page from Mississippi Field Offices, Subordinate Field Offices: Columbus, Registers of Letters Received, Vol. 2 (108), Jan.–Dec. 1868
Anonymous transcribed a page from Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Indexes and Registers, Register 17 (58), Aug. 1870–Jan. 1871
Anonymous transcribed a page from Texas Assistant Commissioner, Letters Received, Entered in Register 1, H–L, 1866–67, Part 4
dknic reviewed a page from Texas Assistant Commissioner, Letters Received, Entered in Register 1, H–L, 1866–67, Part 3
dknic reviewed a page from Texas Assistant Commissioner, Letters Received, Entered in Register 1, H–L, 1866–67, Part 3
