Provenance

Acquired from Mary Benjamin, April 1966 (accn. no. 1966-545ms).

Preferred citation

Cite as: Walter Sydney Adams Papers, American Philosophical Society.

Processing information

Recatalogued by rsc, 2004.

Related material

The largest collection of the papers of Walter Sydney Adams is housed at the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., which also holds a substantial archive of material relating to the Mount Wilson Observatory. Hale is a major correspondent in the papers of Edwin Frost (Yerkes Observatory) and Henry Norris Russell (Princeton).

The Niels Bohr Library at the American Institute of Physics has 10 pages of autobiographical notes by Adams, 1954, an oral history with him regarding the early days at Mount Wilson Observatory, and a tape recording of the Fiftieth Anniversary dinner for Adams at Mount Wilson, 1954.

The Printed Materials Department houses several works by Adams, including: Frost, Edwin Brant and Walter Sydney Adams. Radial Velocities of Twenty Stars Having Spectra of the Orion Type (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1903). Call no.: 378.773 C43M. Adams, Walter Sydney. An Investigation of the Rotation Period of the Sun by Spectroscopic Methods (Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1911). Call no.: 506.73 C21p no.138. Adams, Walter Sydney. The Sun's Place Among the Stars (Washington: Smithsonian, 1936). Call no.: 506.73 Sm6an 1935. Adams, Walter Sydney. What Lies Between the Stars (Washington: Smithsonian, 1942). Call no.: 506.73 Sm6an 1941.

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