• Classification number: 3L
• Title of Record Series: Department of Astronomy
• Record Group: Faculty
• Sub Group: Departments
• Date: January 28, 1982
• Accession Number: A77-5, A78-10
• Source: existing files
• Restrictions: none
• Volume:

Records of the Department of Astronomy; dating from 1882 to ; consisting of photographs, correspondence, clippings and magazine articles, notes, expenses and inventories, Observatory Guest book, observation log books, stellar calculations, blue prints, and a scrapbook; concerning construction of and equipment for the observatory, Lady Margaret Huggins gifts to the Astronomy Department, dedication of the Whitin Observatory, early speakers at Wellesley College; laboratory exercises and observations.

• General (undated, 1900-1955)
• Clippings and Magazine Articles (1875-1940)
• Correspondence: Astronomical Clocks
• Correspondence: Chronograph Purchase
• Correspondence: Committee on Cooperation in Improvement of Teaching Elementary Astronomy
• Correspondence: General
• Correspondence: Gifts (including U.S. Treasury
• Correspondence re. Bringing the Lady Huggins collection to Wellesley) (undated, 1913-1929)
• Correspondence: Initial Observatory building
• Correspondence: Observatory Domes
• Correspondence: Observatory renovations and additions
• Correspondence: Purchase of Celestial maps and photos
• Correspondence: Purchase of Meteorite samples
• Correspondence: Requests for information
• Correspondence: Spectroscope
• Correspondence: Sun dial
• Correspondence: Telescopes
• Correspondence: Telescope attachments
• Correspondence: Telescope lens cleaning and repair
• Correspondence: Transit instrument

• Correspondence: Mrs. John C. Whitin to Sarah Frances Whiting (undated, 1898-1899)
• Correspondence: Mrs. John C. Whitin to Sarah Frances Whiting (1900-1901, 1905-1906); Mrs. John C. Whitin to Miss Allen (1913)
• Correspondence: Sarah Frances Whiting and Lady Huggins regarding her gifts to Wellesley college, including photos of some of the gifts (undated, 1913-1914)
• Latitude and Longitude information on Wellesley College, (undated-1900)
• Souvenir Whitin Observatory: Memory book compiled by Sarah Frances Whiting, including photographs and correspondence (1882-1913)
• Astronomy Department Account Books (1906-7, 1929-45)
• Statements of Expenditures, Astronomy Department, (July 1944-March 1950)
• Observatory Inventories, (undated - 1954)
• Record Book of Student enrollment, Astronomy Department, (1909-16)

• Observatory Guest Book, (1900-1936)
• Astronomy Lab Notebook, (undated)
• Loose papers from Astronomy Lab Notebook
• Lab book from the first Astronomy class (1900)
• Lab Notebook on Physical Astronomy (1902-03)
• Typewritten Lab exercises (1902)
• Stellar Calculation Reports by John Duncan and Astronomy Classes, (undated-1903)
• Stellar Calculation Reports by John Duncan and Astronomy Classes, (1904-1907)

• Stellar Calculation Reports by John Duncan and Astronomy Classes, (1909-1910)
• Stellar Calculation Reports by John Duncan and Astronomy Classes, (1911-1946)
• Solar Eclipse (1925) (includes student reports)
• Observations log book 1879-1900
• Observations log book (Vol I)1900-1908
• Observations log book (Vol II) 1908-1916
• Observations log book (Vol III) 1916- ;
• Loose papers from Vol III

• The Aztec Calendar Stone, Dioniseus Abachiano
• Hood College Yearbook 1936) presented to Department of Astronomy
• Book of Souvenir Cards of other Observatories
• Loose items from the Book of Souvenir Cards of other Observatories

• Photos of Astronomical Society meetings
• Photos of Lady Huggins gifts exhibit at Farnsworth Art Museum
• Photo of Mrs. Whitin
• Astronomy chart of Curtate orbits and Asteroids