Harry Wexler papers, (Record no. 42320)
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| LC control number | mm 79045229 |
| NUCMC control number | ms 64000782 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Description conventions | dacs |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | S |
| Source | lcmd |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wexler, Harry, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1911-1962. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Harry Wexler papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1929-1962. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 13,000 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 44 |
| Type of unit | containers. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 19 |
| Type of unit | linear feet. |
| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Arranged in 5 series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1929-1962; Series 2: Speech, Lecture, and Article File, 1930-1962; Series 3: Subject File; Series 4: Miscellany; and Series 5: Printed Matter. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondence, speeches, lectures, articles, subject files, biographical material, printed matter, weather charts and statistics, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Wexler's career as a geophysicist and meteorologist. Documents his work with the U.S. Weather Bureau and the Weather Service of the U.S. Air Force. Includes material on meteorological satellites such as TIROS I and the use of high-speed computers for numerical weather prediction and weather modification; records of the U.S. expedition to the Antarctic for the International Geophysical Year; and the Antarctic journal (1955-1959) kept by Wexler as chief scientist of the expedition in which he provides a detailed record of the organization and conduct of the mission. Includes papers from his school years at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondents include Werner A. Baum, Charles Franklin Brooks, Hugh L. Dryden, Oren Harris, Henry G. Houghton, Jerome C. Hunsaker, Hugh Odishaw, Francis W. Reichelderfer, John Von Neumann, and Fred L. Whipple. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Dictaphone records |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | Geophysicist and meteorologist. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Baum, Werner A. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Brooks, Charles Franklin, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1891-1958 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dryden, Hugh L. |
| Fuller form of name | (Hugh Latimer), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1898-1965 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Harris, Oren, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1903- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Houghton, Henry G. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hunsaker, Jerome C. |
| Fuller form of name | (Jerome Clarke), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1886-1984 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Odishaw, Hugh |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Reichelderfer, Francis W. |
| Fuller form of name | (Francis Wilton), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1895-1983 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Von Neumann, John, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1903-1957 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Whipple, Fred L. |
| Fuller form of name | (Fred Lawrence), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1906-2004 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Air Weather Service. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Weather Bureau. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Harvard University |
| General subdivision | Students. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| General subdivision | Students. |
| 611 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--MEETING NAME | |
| Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States Antarctic Expedition |
| Date of meeting or treaty signing | (1954-1959) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Computers. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geophysics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Meteorological satellites. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Meteorology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | TIROS satellites. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Universities and colleges |
| Geographic subdivision | Massachusetts. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Weather forecasting. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Antarctica |
| General subdivision | Discovery and exploration. |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Geophysicists. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Meteorologists. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012026.3</a> |
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