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A note about the 1857 Presidential Inauguration of James Buchanan, as recorded by Harvard Observatory astronomer Philip Sydney Coolidge.

You can read more about Coolidge here:
https://wolba.ch/gazette/major-philip-sydney-coolidge/

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born in the UK, but here you'll see her US citizenship application. Recognize any other names on the document?

(images: Ancestry. Mass., U.S., State & Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950)
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List of Known Variables from the Harvard Map of the Sky Region. The names of the discoverers are on the right, as well as the years the variables were discovered. Found in a Henrietta Swan Leavitt notebook.
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