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Tours

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Scheduling For tours of the Glass Plate Collection, please contact harvardplatestacks@cfa.harvard.edu. Please give two or more weeks notice. Also because of Harvard rules, groups with those under 18, will require longer lead time. Accessibility We are...

Virtual Tours

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The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian now offers virtual tours of two popular facilities on campus: the Great Refractor and the Plate Stacks. Both tours allow visitors to walk through the facilities from the comfort of their own homes while...

Public Tour of the Harvard Plate Stacks

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Join us for an exclusive tour of the Harvard Plate Stacks, where history, science, and art converge. Explore our extraordinary collection up close, including some of its most significant objects. In celebration of the newly published book Attention is...

PHaEDRA Office Hours - Virtual Plate Stacks Tour

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We will be hosting a virtual tour of the Photographic Plate Stacks here at the Wolbach Library, with Sarah Lavallee, Acting Curator of Astronomical Photographs. Click here to register for the June PHaEDRA Office Hours (Plate Stacks Tour)

Experience: Cambridge Explores the Universe

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The Harvard Plate Stacks is joining our colleagues at the Center for Astrophysics for Cambridge Explores the Universe! This is the annual open house for the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and is apart of the Cambridge Science Festival...

Kayleigh MacDonald

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Kayleigh MacDonald is a Curatorial Assistant with the Harvard Plate Stacks, where she assists in the digitization and preservation of 19th-century glass plate photographs. Her role combines high-level archival handling, metadata organization, and imaging...

Event: Vera Rubin Discovery Festival

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Join us after the Historic Change: Vera Rubin panel, for a festival in honor of Vera Rubin taking place in the Science Center Plaza. Connect with different groups, organizations, institutions, and museums to learn more about Astrophysics, Women's History...

Collection Access

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The Harvard Plate Stacks are open to researchers by appointment. Research Appointments Appointments can be scheduled Monday through Friday between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and are subject to staff availability. The reading room closes at 4:30pm. Please...

Ruth Poulter Bailey

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Ruth Elaine Poulter Bailey (1858-1940) worked with the Harvard College Observatory from 1888 to 1925. 1 She helped to manage Harvard’s Boyden Station in Arequipa, Peru, assisted with some processing and analysis of glass plates in Arequipa, and served as...