Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Yerkes Observatory logbooks and notebooks
University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory logbooks and notebooks
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| Notes: | This collection is open for research.
Yerkes Observatory, located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, is a facility of the University of Chicago's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The Observatory opened in 1897 as the joint creation of three founders: William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago; Professor George E. Hale, the Observatory's first director; and Charles T. Yerkes, a wealthy Chicago businessman who provided funds for the erection of the Observatory building. Yerkes became known in the astronomical community as the home of the last of the great refracting telescopes, a 40-inch instrument first exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. The Observatory housed the University's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics until the 1960s, and was the site of some of the most significant research in modern astronomy and astrophysics.
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| Summary: | Consists of logbooks and observations notebooks compiled by astronomers. The majority of notebooks date from 1892 to 1947, though all are in excellent condition and their information is very accessible.
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| Cite as: | When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Yerkes Observatory. Logbooks and Notebooks, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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| Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note: | Finding aid available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637.
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