03273cpcaa2200625 4500 mm 82052381 DLC 20260227111715.0 cr ||||||||||| 821109|||||||||||| eng mm 82052381 DLC dacs DLC DLC S lcmd Eastham, Melville, 1885-1964. Melville Eastham papers, 1908-1973 (bulk 1930-1964). 5,800 items. 32 containers. 12.8 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, reports, company files, clippings, printed matter, blueprints, plans, sketches, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Eastham's career as radio engineer and as head of the General Radio Company. Includes files pertaining to long-range navigation and the Loran project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory. Also documents his avocation of collecting sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maps and atlases. Correspondents include Fred S. Barton, Cedric M. Benham, Ralph Bown, Vannevar Bush, Trevor Clark, K.T. Compton, James Bryant Conant, George Friedrichs, Nicole Friedrichs, Charles S. Grover, Alfred L. Loomis, Claude Lyons, Henry S. Mears, William P. Murphy, Marie E. Schaefer, and Henry Southworth Shaw. Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Radio engineer and manufacturer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011211 Barton, Fred S. Correspondence. Benham, Cedric M. Correspondence. Bown, Ralph Correspondence. Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 Correspondence. Clark, Trevor Correspondence. Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954 Correspondence. Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978 Correspondence. Friedrichs, George Correspondence. Friedrichs, Nicole Correspondence. Grover, Charles S. Correspondence. Loomis, Alfred L. (Alfred Lee), 1887-1975 Correspondence. Lyons, Claude Correspondence. Mears, Henry S. Correspondence. Murphy, William P., 1923- Correspondence. Schaefer, Marie E. Correspondence. Shaw, Henry Southworth Correspondence. General Radio Company. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory. Atlases Collectors and collecting. Maps Collectors and collecting. Radar. Radio. Navigation. Loran. Engineers. itoamc Manufacturers. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011211 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011211.3 43644 43644