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Harvard College Observatory

LC control no.n 80020284
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingHarvard College Observatory
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Variant(s)Harvard Observatory
Harvard University. Astronomical Observatory
Harvard University. Observatory
Henry Draper Memorial
Harvard University. Henry Draper Memorial
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Harvard College Observatory
HCO
See alsoHierarchical superior: Harvard University
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Hierarchical superior: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Beginning date1839
Found inHarvard College Observatory; the first century, a review of the past and a preview of the future, 1946
The Telescope, March-April, 1935: p.i (Harvard Observatory)
SAO website, November 13, 2013: home page (the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) ... is joined with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA))
Its website, November 13, 2013: home page (Harvard College Observatory (HCO), founded in 1839; collaborates with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA))
Centerline (Cambridge, Mass.), June 1974: [page 1] (... on July 1, 1973, President Derek Bok of Harvard University and Secretary S. Dillon Ripley of Smithsonian Institution brought forth in Cambridge a new organization known as the Center for Astrophysics, a joint enterprise designed to coordinate the related research of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a single director ...)