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BOX OV 1-OV 3 Part I: Oversize, 1971-2008
Blueprints, photographs, a broadside, and an index.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed.
BOX OV 1 Alphabetical File
Set A
Kollmorgen Corp., material on infrared telescope
Blueprints, 1971
Folder 2 of 5 (Container 89)
Folder 3 of 5 (Container 89)
Folder 4 of 5 (Container 89)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Kuiper Airborne Observatory/C-141 (jet transport), 1986
Blueprints, 1985-1986 (Container 106)
Perkin-Elmer Corp.
Infrared telescopes, design study, and drawings
1975
Blueprints, 1975 (Container 125)
1976
Folder 2 of 5
Blueprints, 1976 (Container 125)
White Mountain Research Station, Bishop, Calif.
Advisory Committee
Subcommittee on Astronomy
Blueprints, 1970 (Container 147)
Telescope
Blueprints, 1973 (Container 147)
Speech and Engagement File
2008
Trotter Prize and Endowed Lecture Series
Broadside, 2008, Dec. 9 (Container 355)
BOX OV 2 Photographs and Slides
Photographs grouped by Townes
Group C: Instruments
No. 030.1-No. 033, 1966 (Container 403)
Group M: Miscellaneous
No. 035, 1959 (Container 406)
BOX OV 3 Slides
Index
By subject, undated (Container 406)
DF Part I: Digital Files
A 3/4" machine-readable tape, labeled "MF115131," found with the paper files during the course of processing is currently inaccessible and unprocessed.
BOX 409-415 Part II: General Correspondence, 2003-2010
Chronological file of incoming and outgoing correspondence, including attachments, between Townes and friends, colleagues, organizations, and the public relating to personal and professional activities. The correspondence is usually stamped "mailed."
Arranged in chronological order.
BOX 409 2003
(8 folders)
BOX 410 2004
(6 folders)
BOX 410 2005
(1 folder)
BOX 411 (7 folders)
BOX 412 2006
(5 folders)
BOX 412 2007
(1 folder)
BOX 413 (4 folders)
BOX 413 2008
(3 folders)
BOX 414 2009
(5 folders)
BOX 414 2010
(1 folder)
BOX 415 (4 folders)
BOX 415-420 Part II: Personal File, 1959-2014
Awards, interviews, biographical information, family papers, genealogy, and photographs.
Arranged alphabetically by topic, name of person, or type of material.
BOX 415 Awards
BOX 415 1964, 2000-2005
(8 folders)
BOX 416 2006-2012
(9 folders)
BOX 416 Battelle, consulting contract with Townes, 1999-2001
BOX 416 Biographical information
BOX 416 Awards and honors, list, 1959-2011
BOX 416 Bio-bibliographies and research recall appointments for California University, Berkeley, Calif., 2001-2010
(2 folders)
BOX 416 Chronological file, 1963-1968, 1974-1978, 1987, 1993-2010, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 416 Curricula vitae and biographical data, 2000-2011, undated
BOX 416 Family papers
BOX 416 Miscellaneous, 2004-2011
BOX 416 Townes, David, 2004-2007
BOX 416 Townes, George A., III, 2006
BOX 416 Townes, Henry Keith, Jr., circa 1990
BOX 416 Townes, Robert, 2006-2007
BOX 416 Townes, Stephen A., 2004-2008
BOX 417 Townes-Anderson, Ellen, 1998, 2004-2005
BOX 417 Townes-Rosenwein, Linda, 1998, 2005
BOX 417 Townes-Witzel, Holly, 2008
BOX 417 Genealogy, Hard and Townes families, 2011-2013
BOX 417 Haynie, Rachel
BOX 417 “Charles H. Townes and a Beam Straight to the Stars,” undated
BOX 417 First You Explore: The Story of the Young Charles H. Townes, 2014
BOX 417 Interviews
BOX 417 American Institute of Physics, oral history, 1987
BOX 417 California University, Berkeley, Calif., oral history project, 1990-1994
(2 folders)
BOX 418 (2 folders)
BOX 418 Caruso, Gregg, 2013
BOX 418 Dowd, Michael, 2010
BOX 418 Electronic Engineer’s Design Magazine, 1967
BOX 418 Esquire, 2001-2002
BOX 418 Guardian newspaper, 2005
BOX 418 IFCO Spotlight newsletter, 2010
BOX 419 Institute for International Studies, Conversations with History video series, 1999-2000
BOX 419 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, oral history, 1992
(2 folders)
BOX 419 International Science and Technology magazine, 1964
BOX 419 Laser Community magazine, 2010
BOX 419 Matter & Beyond television program, 2008
BOX 419 Miscellaneous, 2002-2013
BOX 419 Nature Photonics magazine, 2010
BOX 419 Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front, oral history project, 2012
BOX 419 Science and Spiritual Quest project, circa 1997-1999
BOX 419 Singh, Taran D., 2005
BOX 419 Specimen magazine, 2011-2012
BOX 419 SPIE, Year of Light video, 2014
BOX 419 Stoller, Lincoln, 2005
BOX 419 U.S. News & World Report, 1968
BOX 419 World Health Academy, video, 2010
BOX 419 Yale Scientific magazine, 1987
BOX 419 Miscellany, 1998
BOX 420 Outstanding emeritus nomination, 2009
BOX 420 Patents, lists, and other materials, 2001-2008
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