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BOX 1-13 Superintendent’s Office Correspondence, 1830-1900
Outgoing and incoming letters and wind and chart agent correspondence.
Arranged chronologically within the groupings. Letters sent to wind and current chart agent George Manning by Matthew Fontaine Maury, and received by him from chart agent A. G. Seaman, are at the end of the series.
BOX 1 Outgoing
BOX 1 1833-1837
BOX 1 1837-1842
BOX 1 1865, 1873
BOX 1 1864-1885, undated
BOX 2 Incoming
BOX 2 1830-1834
BOX 2 1845, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 2 1846, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 3 1847, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 3 1849-1850
BOX 3 1851-1854, 1860
BOX 4 1865-1866
(3 folders)
BOX 4 1867
BOX 4 Jan.-May
(2 folders)
BOX 5 June-Dec.
(2 folders)
BOX 5 1868-1870
(4 folders)
BOX 5 1871
BOX 5 Jan.-May
BOX 6 June-Dec.
BOX 6 1872-1876
(6 folders)
BOX 7 1877
(4 folders)
BOX 8 1878-1880
(4 folders)
BOX 8 1881-1882, 1889
BOX 8 1893-1895
BOX 9 1900
(2 folders)
BOX 9 Wind and current chart agents
BOX 9 Outgoing
BOX 9 1848-1849
(3 folders)
BOX 9 1850
BOX 9 Jan.-Mar.
BOX 10 Apr.-Dec.
(2 folders)
BOX 10 1851-1852
(4 folders)
BOX 11 1853-1854
(6 folders)
BOX 12 1855-1856
(5 folders)
BOX 12 1857
BOX 12 Jan.-Feb.
BOX 13 Mar.-Dec.
(2 folders)
BOX 13 1858
BOX 13 Incoming, 1858-1859
BOX 13-15 Superintendent’s Office Administrative Records, 1858-1900
Administrative records including personnel lists, memoranda, building contracts, financial records, and biographical information.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 13 Building contracts and specifications, 1869, undated See also Oversize
BOX 13 Documents
BOX 13 Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia, Pa. (1876), 1875-1877
BOX 13 Eclipse expedition
BOX 13 1869
BOX 13 1878
BOX 13 Lists
BOX 13 Observatory personnel, 1877
BOX 14 Distribution of observatory publications, 1871-1900, undated
BOX 14 Memoranda, reports, and memorials, 1877-1882, undated
BOX 14 Miscellaneous lists and writing, 1866-1881, undated
BOX 14 Receipts relating to the distribution of observatory publications
BOX 14 1866-1872
(4 folders)
BOX 14 1877, Jun.
BOX 15 1877, July-1878, July
BOX 15 Wind and current chart agents
BOX 15 Monthly accounts, 1858-1859
BOX 15 Monthly reports, 1858-1859
BOX 15 Receipts, 1858-1859
BOX 15-25 Nautical Almanac Office Correspondence, 1849-1885
Outgoing and incoming correspondence, letters sent and received by agents for the sale of the Nautical Almanac, and letters sent and received from the Navy Department by the Nautical Almanac Office.
Arranged chronologically within the groupings.
BOX 15 Outgoing
BOX 15 1849, Mar.-1852, July
BOX 15 1863, Jan.-1869, Oct.
BOX 16 1869, Oct.-1873, June
BOX 16 1870, Nov.-1879, Jan.
BOX 16 1877, Mar.-1878, May
BOX 17 1878, May-1879, Jan.
BOX 17 1882, Nov.-1883, Sept.
BOX 17 1884, June-1885, Feb.
BOX 17 Incoming
BOX 17 1851
BOX 18 1852-1862
(7 folders)
BOX 19 1863-1868
(6 folders)
BOX 19 1869
BOX 20 Jan-June
BOX 20 July-Dec.
BOX 20 1872-1875
(5 folders)
BOX 21 1876-1878
(6 folders)
BOX 21 1879
BOX 21 Jan.-June
BOX 22 July-Dec.
1880-1884
(5 folders)
BOX 22 Agents
BOX 22 Outgoing, 1879-1883
BOX 23 Incoming, 1866-1869
(4 folders)
BOX 23 Navy Department, incoming
BOX 23 1849-1863
(4 folders)
BOX 24 1864-1872
(6 folders)
BOX 25 1873-1879
(3 folders)
BOX 25-28 Librarian’s Office Administrative Records, 1868-1899
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