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Title: William Fowler with HiY Club at Lima Central High School, Lima, OH
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1929
Series: Individuals, Folwer, William A.
Description: Willy Fowler who was president of the club is in the center of the front row.

Title: William Fowler in Lima Central High School football uniform, Lima, OH
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1929
Series: Individuals, Folwer, William A.

Title: Spectrohelioscope
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1929
Description: Perspective drawing of coelostat, second mirror and telescope lens of spectrohelioscope. Pencil and ink on paper, backed with graph paper, 10.75 x 8.5 inches, signed R. W. P., dated 1929. George E. Hale, “The Spectrohelioscope and its Work, Part I: History, Instruments, Adjustments, and Methods of Observation, The Astrophysical Journal 70 (December 1929): 265-311. Published as Plate VIII. Porter Papers.

Title: Spectrohelioscope
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1929
Description: Perspective drawing of slits, gratings and skeleton tube of combined instruments seen from below, for spectrohelioscope assembly. Pencil and ink on board, 11.25 x 10 inches, signed R. W. P., dated 1929. George E. Hale, “The Spectrohelioscope and its Work, Part I: History, Instruments, Adjustments, and Methods of Observation, The Astrophysical Journal 70 (December 1929): 265-311. Published as Plate XXI. Porter Papers.

Title: Spectrohelioscope
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1929
Description: Perspective drawing of Anderson’s rotating prisms, for use with fixed slits, for spectrohelioscope. Pencil and ink on paper, backed with graph paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, signed R. W. P., dated 1929. George E. Hale, “The Spectrohelioscope and its Work, Part I: History, Instruments, Adjustments, and Methods of Observation, The Astrophysical Journal 70 (December 1929): 265-311. Published as Plate XIV. Porter Papers.

Title: William Fowler with the Lima Central High School baseball team, Lima, OH
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1929
Series: Individuals, Folwer, William A.
Description: Willy Fowler is second from the right in the back row.

Title: Elevation, “Victoria Type, Study #5.”
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1929
Description: Complete elevation, partially cutaway, of Victoria mount, with detailed polar axis bearings and optical configurations, side and end views, scaled to 5 inches equals 40 feet. Pencil on transparent paper, 13 x 9.5 inches. Signed R.W.P. Pasadena, dated 1929. [Left top corner torn away.] Palomar. Porter Papers.

Title: Spectrohelioscope
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1929
Description: Perspective drawing of oscillating slits and eyepiece of spectrohelioscope. Pencil and ink on paper, backed with graph paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, signed R. W. P., dated 1929. George E. Hale, “The Spectrohelioscope and its Work, Part I: History, Instruments, Adjustments, and Methods of Observation, The Astrophysical Journal 70 (December 1929): 265-311. Published as Plate IX. Porter Papers.

Title: Spectrohelioscope
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1929
Description: Perspective drawing of observer using the spectrohelioscope. 11.75 x 8 inches, signed R. W. P., dated 1929. Porter Papers.

Title: “World Authorities” at Seismo Lab
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1929
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: L-R: front: Archie King, L. H. Adams, Hugo Benioff, Beno Gutenberg, Harold Jeffries, Charles Richter, Arthur Day, Harry Wood, Ralph Arnold, John P. Buwalda; top: Alden Waite, Perry Byerly, Harry Reid, John Anderson, Fr. J. P. Macelwane. Geology/Geophysics.

Title: Commencement procession
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1929
Series: Administration
Description: Includes Louis Ricketts, Joseph Dabney, Robert Millikan and Frank Jewett. Commencements.

Title: Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford and Francis Jehl
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1929
Series: History of Science
Description: Taken at the dedication of the Menlo Park Laboratory reconstruction in Dearborn, MI. Inventors