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| Call Number | F868.S25C3 |
| Title | Life on Mount Hamilton, 1899-1913 [by Kenneth Campbell]. With comments by C. Donald Shane. Interviewed and edited by Elizabeth Spedding Calciano |
| Series Title | Lick Observatory History |
| Creator |
Campbell, Kenneth, 1899- , narrator Calciano, Elizabeth Spedding, 1939- , interviewer |
| Date of Publication | 1971 |
| Description/Abstract | Kenneth Campbell was a noted research engineer from Ridgewood, New Jersey. His father, William Wallace Campbell, was Director of the Lick Observatory from 1901 to 1930. Descriptions of living conditions on Mount Hamilton at the turn of the century--the Mt. Hamilton School, water supply, plumbing, food supplies, mail and banking, health care, a nine hole golf course, hunting and fishing, baseball, hiking, funerals and church attendance, and early automobiles. Discussion of early Lick telescopes, eclipse expeditions around the world, and sketches of early Lick astronomers as Campbell remembered them from his youth. |
| Subject.LCSH |
Lick Observatory Astronomical observatories Scientists |
| Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Original Size | xix, 150 leaves. ports. (1 col.) |
| Owning Institution & Contact Info | University of California, Santa Cruz. McHenry Library, Regional History Project. 1156 High Street. Santa Cruz, CA, 95064. (831) 459-2847. ihreti@ucsc.edu |
| Owning Institution Homepage | http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/ |
| Copyright Statement | PLEASE NOTE: These interviews are provided for research purposes only. All uses of these manuscripts are covered by copyright agreement between the interviewees and the Regents of the University of California. All the literary rights in these manuscripts, including the right to publish, are reserved to the University of California, Santa Cruz. No part of these manuscripts may be quoted for publication without the permission of the University Librarian of the University of California, Santa Cruz. |
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| Title | campbell1 |
| Owning Institution & Contact Info | University of California, Santa Cruz. McHenry Library, Regional History Project. 1156 High Street. Santa Cruz, CA, 95064. (831) 459-2847. ihreti@ucsc.edu |
| Owning Institution Homepage | http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/ |
| Copyright Statement | PLEASE NOTE: These interviews are provided for research purposes only. All uses of these manuscripts are covered by copyright agreement between the interviewees and the Regents of the University of California. All the literary rights in these manuscripts, including the right to publish, are reserved to the University of California, Santa Cruz. No part of these manuscripts may be quoted for publication without the permission of the University Librarian of the University of California, Santa Cruz. |
| Viewing note | For the best viewing experience, we recommend the following browsers: Safari 5+, Internet Explorer 8.0+, Google Chrome 12+. The recommended viewer for PDF transcript and text files is Adobe® Reader® version 8.0+. Please contact us if you have problems accessing the oral histories. |
