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    <title>Asaph Hall papers, 1837-1983 (bulk 1860-1920)</title>
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    <namePart>Hall, Asaph</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1829-1907</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, writings, scientific notebooks, biographical material, family papers, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to astronomers Asaph Hall (1829-1907) and his son, Asaph Hall (1859-1930).  Documents the career of Asaph Hall (1829-1907) at the United States Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. and to his discovery of the moons of Mars.  Correspondents include Alexander Graham Bell, Alvan Clark, Benjamin A. Gould, Asaph Hall (1800-1842 or 3), Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, and Mary Estella Hall, Othniel C. March, and Hermann Struve.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Some photographs and slides transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Astronomer and educator.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bell, Alexander Graham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1847-1922</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clark, Alvan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1887</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gould, Benjamin Apthorp</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1896</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hall, Asaph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1842 or 1843</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Hall, Chloe Angeline Stickney</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1892</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hall, Mary Estella Cockrell</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Marsh, Othniel Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1899</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Struve, Hermann</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1854-1920</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hall family</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States Naval Observatory.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Astronomical observatories</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Astronomy</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Mars (Planet)</geographic>
    <topic>Satellites</topic>
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    <occupation>Astronomers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Educators</occupation>
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