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040			_aDLC _edacs _cDLC _dDLC
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100	1		_aEastham, Melville, _d1885-1964.
245	0	0	_aMelville Eastham papers, _f1908-1973 _g(bulk 1930-1964).
300			_a5,800 _fitems.
300			_a32 _fcontainers.
300			_a12.8 _flinear feet.
506	0		_aOpen to research.
520	8		_aCorrespondence, 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.
544			_3Maps _etransferred to _aLibrary of Congress Geography and Map Division.
545	0		_aRadio engineer and manufacturer.
546			_aCollection material in English.
555	8		_aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011211
600	1	0	_aBarton, Fred S. _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aBenham, Cedric M. _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aBown, Ralph _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aBush, Vannevar, _d1890-1974 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aClark, Trevor _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aCompton, K. T. _q(Karl Taylor), _d1887-1954 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aConant, James Bryant, _d1893-1978 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aFriedrichs, George _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aFriedrichs, Nicole _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aGrover, Charles S. _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aLoomis, Alfred L. _q(Alfred Lee), _d1887-1975 _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aLyons, Claude _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aMears, Henry S. _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aMurphy, William P., _d1923- _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aSchaefer, Marie E. _vCorrespondence.
600	1	0	_aShaw, Henry Southworth _vCorrespondence.
610	2	0	_aGeneral Radio Company.
610	2	0	_aMassachusetts Institute of Technology. _bRadiation Laboratory.
650		0	_aAtlases _xCollectors and collecting.
650		0	_aMaps _xCollectors and collecting.
650		0	_aRadar.
650		0	_aRadio.
650		0	_aNavigation.
650		0	_aLoran.
656		7	_aEngineers. _2itoamc
656		7	_aManufacturers. _2itoamc
856	4		_3Finding aid _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011211
856	4		_3Finding aid (PDF) _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011211.3
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