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    <title>Abbott Lawrence Rotch papers 1896-1912 (bulk 1903-1910)</title>
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    <namePart>Rotch, Abbott Lawrence</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1861-1912</namePart>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, writings, financial papers, newspaper clippings, printed matter, maps, tables, charts, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Rotch's interest in aeronautics and meteorology.  Subjects include atmospheric experiments and observations, the air flight trials of the Wright Brothers, and the International Aeronautical Congress at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri.  Correspondents include Cleveland Abbe, James Allen, Louis P. Casella, Octave Chanute, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Oliver L. Fassig, A. Hildebrandt, S.P. Langley, Percival Lowell, Alexander McAdie, James Means, Hermann W.L. Moedebeck, Edward C. Pickering, Charles Stewart Rolls, Sir Napier Shaw, Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort, Robert DeCourcy Ward, Orville Wright, and Wilbur Wright.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Meteorologist and balloonist.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English, with French and German.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Abbe, Cleveland</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1916</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Allen, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1933</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Casella, Louis P</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chanute, Octave</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1910</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Curtiss, Glenn Hammond</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fassig, Oliver L. (Oliver Lanard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1936</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hildebrandt, A. (Alfred)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1870-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1906</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lowell, Percival</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1916</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McAdie, Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-1943</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Means, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1920</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Moedebeck, Hermann W. L. (Hermann Wilhelm Ludwig)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1910</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1846-1919</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Rolls, Charles Stewart</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-1910</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shaw, Napier</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1854-1945</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Teisserenc de Bort, Léon Philippe</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1913</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ward, Robert DeCourcy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1931</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wright, Orville</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1948</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wright, Orville</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1948</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wright, Wilbur</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1912</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wright, Wilbur</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1912</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="conference">
      <namePart>International Aeronautical Congress (1904 : St. Louis, Mo.)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="conference">
      <namePart>Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Aeronautics</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Aeronautics</topic>
    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Atmosphere</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Flight</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Meteorology</topic>
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    <occupation>Balloonists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Meteorologists</occupation>
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