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Written by Peggy Wargelin, Wolbach Library, 2018. Cecilia Payne was born into a moderately wealthy family that lived in the English countryside. The only girl with two brothers, Cecilia often found herself either exploring with them or alone in nature. In...

The Harvard Plate Stacks hosts and participates in events and programs locally and globally. Take a look below to learn about the different ways to can connect with our collection and history.

The Harvard Plate Stacks and the DASCH digitization project employed many different people over twenty years. Use the link below to view a list of everyone who worked on this endeavor. Since 2025, we have created individual staff profiles and preserved...

Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was a deaf American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the...

The Harvard Plate Stacks is the Harvard College Observatory's Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection and is the most extensive collection of its kind in the world. The core of the collection was founded with the generous funding of Anna Palmer...

Executive Summary This document provides guidance on how to accurately and fully describe the women who did astronomical research at the Harvard College Observatory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We recommend language that accounts for the...