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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
Outgoing and incoming correspondence.
Arranged chronologically within the groupings. Invoices and lists are filed at the end of the correspondence.
BOX 25 Outgoing
BOX 25 1868-1871
BOX 25 1875-1878
BOX 26 1878-1883
BOX 26 1883-1885
BOX 26 1891-1894
BOX 27 1894-1899
BOX 27 Incoming
BOX 27 1869-1878, undated
BOX 27 1879-1883
(3 folders)
BOX 27 1884
BOX 27 Jan-Apr.
BOX 28 May-Dec.
BOX 28 1885
BOX 28 Invoices, 1868-1870
BOX 28 Lists of books and periodicals to be bound and acquired, 1867-1876, undated
BOX 28-29 Superintendent of Compasses Office, 1875-1895
Copies of letters sent in letter copy books.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 28 1875-1883
BOX 28 1877-1879
BOX 29 1893-1895
BOX 29 Instruments Office Correspondence, 1882-1885
Copies of letters sent in a letter copy book.
BOX 29 Outgoing, 1882-1885
BOX OV 1 Oversize, 1869
Contract and specifications for buildings.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed.
BOX OV 1 Superintendent’s Office Administrative Records
BOX OV 1 Building contracts and specifications, 1869, undated (Container 13)

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