Papers of astronomer Ewen Whitaker (1922-2016), expert on the geography of the moon (selenography). Contains correspondence, project files, extensive photographs and maps, and other materials related to NASA lunar missions (Ranger, Apollo, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter), selenographic studies, lunar nomenclature and his professional career at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory working with founder Gerard P. Kuiper.
Collection Number:
MS 662
Language:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu
Biographical Note
Ewen Adair Whitaker (1922-2016) was a British-born astronomer specializing in lunar studies since 1951. He was a founding member of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) from 1960 until his retirement in 1987. Over his career Whitaker quite possibly developed the best knowledge of the geography, or selenography, of the lunar surface of anyone alive. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Arizona in 2011.
Ewen Whitaker's research was fundamental to the success of the manned lunar program. He pioneered the technique of groundbased differential UV/Infrared lunar photography, resulting in the first compositional maps of lava flows on the Moon. These maps, scientifically important in their own right, were also instrumental to the selection of landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. In 1961, he was tasked with selecting impact sites for Rangers 6 and 7. He later located the landed positions of four Surveyors; the Surveyor 3 site was eventually chosen as the Apollo 12 landing site. He also selected sites for Lunar Orbiter 5. Whitaker briefed astronauts for Apollo missions 13, 15, and 16. He analyzed Apollo images and located the impact craters formed by the Ranger 7 and 9 spacecraft and the Apollo 13 and 14 3-stage launching system modules. Knowing the masses, impact velocities, and impact angles of these craters meant that equations for impact mechanics could be tested and refined.
Whitaker was born June 22, 1922 in London. By age 8, he became interested in science and the moon when he was gifted a children’s encyclopedia for Christmas. He later received a scholarship to study at The John Roan School, Maze Hill. Whitaker hoped to attend the University of London, however, during World War II, many universities were relocated to the countryside for protection, and Whitaker stayed close to home to help support his ailing mother. Instead he got a job at Seimens and was engaged in quality control, by UV spectrographic analysis, of the lead sheathing of hollow cables strung under the English Channel (secret Project PLUTO, Pipe Line Under the Ocean) to supply gasoline to Allied vehicles in France. He obtained a position at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, engaged in UV spectra of stars, but became interested in lunar studies as a sideline, and illustrated and published in 1954, the first accurate chart of the South Polar area of the Moon. After meeting Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper, Director of Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin, at an International Astronomical Union (IAU) congress in Dublin in 1955, he was invited to join Kuiper's fledgling Lunar Project at Yerkes, to work on producing the best available photographic atlas of the Moon. Russian-constructed Sputniks heralded the dawn of the Space Age in 1957, and the Lunar Project was soon in NASA's limelight. The Photographic Lunar Atlas, Orthographic Atlas of the Moon (giving accurate positions on the lunar surface), and Rectified Lunar Atlas (giving astronauts-eye views of the whole lunar nearside) proved to be invaluable for the planning and operational stages of later spacecraft missions to the Moon. The small Lunar Project moved to the University of Arizona in 1960 and became the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL). After retiring from LPL he remained a member of the International Astronomical Union Task Group for Lunar Nomenclature.
Whitaker chose 14 favorably located farside craters to commemorate the Challenger and Columbia astronauts who lost their lives in the two disasters. These were also adopted internationally over competing suggestions. He also determined, with considerable confidence, the dates on which Galileo made his drawings of the Moon and composed the various relevant sections of his Sidereus Nuncius. Additionally, he devised a logical lettering system for designating unnamed craters on the Moon's farside. This was adopted unanimously for universal use by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2006, as was the corrected list of letters for nearside craters which Whitaker helped compile in 1982.
Whitaker was married 67 years to Beryl Horswell. They have three children: Malcolm, Graham and Fiona.
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of the Ewen Whitaker papers are about the moon, including selenology, the science of the moon, and especially selenography, the study of the surface and physical features of the moon. This includes: lunar research, lunar photography, lunar mapping, lunar nomenclature, and the history of mapping and naming the moon. Materials include byproducts of his prolific professional career and materials amassed from a lifetime of avid personal collecting. The collection includes correspondence, project files, extensive photographs and maps, technical reports, drawings, and very limited audiovisual and digital materials. Whitaker’s extensive library of books is cataloged separately (please contact Special Collections). Materials related to NASA lunar missions (Ranger, Apollo, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter) are found throughout the collection and are not limited to Series III: Lunar Missions. The same can be said of photography, which is pervasive throughout the collection.
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Access Terms
Personal Name(s)
Kuiper, Gerard P. (Gerard Peter), 1905-1973
Corporate Name(s)
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
University of Arizona. Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Contains professional correspondence arranged chronologically, professional correspondence arranged by name or topic and personal and family correspondence in several folders at the end of the series. Additional professional correspondence related to Kuiper and the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory found in Series II.
box
folder
1
1
Professional Correspondence, 1952-1959
1
2
Professional Correspondence, 1960-1966
1
3
Professional Correspondence, 1967-1968
1
4
Professional Correspondence, 1969
1
5
Professional Correspondence, 1970-1972
1
6
Professional Correspondence, 1973
1
7
Professional Correspondence, 1974-1975
1
8
Professional Correspondence, 1976-1977
1
9
Professional Correspondence, 1978-1979
1
10
Professional Correspondence, 1980
1
11
Professional Correspondence, 1981
1
12
Professional Correspondence, 1982-1984
1
13
Professional Correspondence, 1985-1986
1
14
Professional Correspondence, 1987-1988
1
15
Professional Correspondence, 1989
1
16
Professional Correspondence, 1990-1991
box
folder
2
1
Professional Correspondence, 1992-1995
2
2
Professional Correspondence, 1996-1999
2
3
Professional Correspondence, 2000-2016
2
4
Professional Correspondence, undated
2
5
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1950-1955
2
6
D. W. G. Arthur,, Prof. Thompson (Univ. College, London), C. A. Cross, 1953-1957
Letters to Senators, NASA budget, responses from Udall, Goldwater, DeConcini, 1981-1982
2
28
Robert Smith, 1982-1983
2
29
John P. Shaefer, Anthony Michaelis, David Laird, Elaine Livermore, aquisition of Michaelis collection, and Whitaker's efforts to set up a Center for the History of Solar System Astronomy, 1982-1990
2
30
John Geake, publication, 1983-1984
box
folder
3
1
General History of Astronomy, Michael Hoskins, drafts, 1986-1990
3
2
Tony Cook, family, drafts, figures, 1986-1990
3
3
Whitaker retirement from LPL, Koffler, Levy, songs, images (photocopy), 1987
3
3A
Mt. Graham Observatory legislation, correspondence, 1988
Correspondence, project files, clippings and photographs related to Whitaker's work with Gerard Kuiper and employment at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Of special note are early letters from Kuiper to Whitaker in Box 4 Folder 1 and a 1945 photograph of Kuiper during WWII in Box 24 Folder 28.
box
folder
4
1
Kuiper correspondence with Whitaker, relocation from England, 1955-1960
4
2
Whitaker drafts, copy of first letter to Kuiper, 1955
4
3
Photocopies of Kuiper correspondence and others related to Yerkes relocation, 1955-1957
4
3a
Kuiper lecture, Exploration of the Moon, Michael Kearns correspondence about publishing the paper, 1958
4
4
Yerkes relocation, receipts, news clippings, 1960
4
5
Kuiper, incomming correspondence, 1964-1971
4
6
Kuiper correspondence with Andrew J. Mantura and Whitaker, 1969
4
7
Kuiper correspondence, A. Vanvrede Eindhoven, Military Assistance Advisory Group, 1969
4
8
Correspondence from Kuiper, LPL memos, 1960s-1970s
4
9
Kuiper, maps of Hawaii for telescope site, Mauna Kea, 1956, undated
4
10
Kuiper, NASA progress report, construction of 60" telescope, 1964
Kuiper Memorial Funds, Kuiper Award, correspondence, 1982-1987
5
11
Whitaker's efforts to create a Center for the History of Solar System Astronomy and permanent home for Kuiper Archive, correspondence, 1982-2012
5
12-15
Centennial publication booklet, LPL It's Founding and Early Years, by EW, UA 100th anniversary and LPL 25th anniversary, drafts, correspondence , 1982-1987
5
16
LPL clippings, 1985
5
17
Skeletons Out of the Closet, anecdotal history of UA Physics department, 1985
5
18
Obituaries, LPL faculty and staff, 2000-2001
5
19
LPL 50th anniversary, No Longer Points of Light, 2010
5
20-21
Clash of the Titans, LPL Homecoming banquet and symposium, EW presentation (with photographs), 2010
box
folder
24
28
Photographs, Dr. Kuiper and Dr. Smyth at Alsos Mission, Göttingen, Germany, 1945
Photographs, Space Sciences bulding, Mount Lemmon Observatory, LPL staff, 1960s-1970s
24
41
Photographs, Kuiper II bust, 1975
24
42
Photographs, exhibition of lunar maps, from Whitaker collection, undated
box
folder
44
1
Photographs, International Astronomical Union, American Astronomical Society, Gerard Kuiper, 1961, 1963, undated
44
Map, Gerard Kuipers' moon map used as early as 1953, with note by Whitaker asserting it's importance, many annotations in Kuipers' hand, circa 1953
44
Blueprints, Kuiper Space Sciences Building, 2 interiors, circa 1965
box
folder
48
1-2
Lick Observatory Map of the Moon, published by Sky & Telescope, original negatives and prints by Moore and Chappell, personal property of G. P. Kuiper, undated
Arranged chronologically by mission: Ranger, Surveyor, Apollo, Luna (Soviet Union) and Orbiter. Additional material (mostly oversize photographs and maps) found in Series IX and X. Includes Mariner Venus and Voyager (non-lunar) at the end.
box
folder
5
22
Ranger TV subsystem requiremtns, FR 3-4-110A, circa 1962
5
23-25
Ranger correspondence, JPL, 1964-1965
box
folder
6
1
Ranger correspondence, Thomas Vrebalovich, others, progress reports, 1963
6
2
Ranger 6-9 report, trajectory, ED-132, 1963
6
3
Ranger 6, EPD-78, Space Flight Operations Plan, 1963
6
4
Ranger Block III TV Mission, reports, 1963
6
5
Ranger, Test Model & Television System, calibrations, 1964
Working files related to professional activities. Organized chronologically and topically. Subjects include lunar nomenclature, telescopes and observatories, grants and other collaborations, mapping and lunar surface studies. Other scientific research.
box
folder
10
13
Lunar nomenclature notebook, circa 1953
10
14
Lunar nomenclature notebook, tables and notes, circa 1956
10
15
International Astronomical Union (IAU) Nomenclature Committee, loose moon charts, 1957, undated
10
16
Nomenclature, amendments, lists, circa 1965
box
14
Named craters and lunar features, card catalog with plate reference (possibly Yerkes plates), sections numbered 100-410, circa 1960
box
15
Card catalog, Selenodetic, Topographical and Selenological terms, circa 1960
box
folder
10
17
Lunar nomenclature tables, 1960s-1970s
10
18
Catalog, craters, nomenclature, circa 1970
10
19
Lunar basins, lists, circa 1970
10
20
Mädler's nomenclature, list, circa 1970
10
21
Lunar Farside nomenclature, circa 1970
10
22
Birt, nomenclature, historic, circa 1980
box
13
Nomenclature, alphabetical index of lunar features by quadrant, printouts of computer data, circa 1980
13
3
Lunar feature depths, craters and maria, data and lists, circa 1980
box
folder
10
23
Lunar features, nomenclature lists, 1982, undated
10
24
Lunar features, nomenclature lists, 1984
10
25
International Astronomical Union (IAU) Lunar Task Group, Nomenclature (WGPSN), includes correspondence, 2006-2012
International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSM), 1999-2006
10
28
USGS D Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, set 1, 2000
box
folder
11
1
International Astronomical Union (IAU) Mars Nomenclature, 1973-1980
11
2
Photometry and Albedo- Shedding some Light on a Gray Area, notes, data, Astrophysical Journal, 1943
11
3
Telescope accessories, report on Interference Filter, Greenwich Observatory, illustrations, 1950s
11
4
Spectrum of the sun in the far ultraviolet, circa 1951
11
4A
Crater drawings (detailed original drawings by Whitaker), notes, figures, 1951-1961, undated
11
5
Lunar South Pole, SSE Limb, drawings, photocopies of moon radar images, 1954-1997
11
6
Formulae for Lunar Reductions, notebook, circa 1956
11
7
Absolute magnitudes, data, circa 1956
11
8
Astronomical Notes, notebook, circa 1956
11
9
Plate information, Mouth Wilson, Yerkes, Pic Du Midi Observatories, 1957-1960
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10
Astronomical photography, other topics, talks and articles, 1957-1962
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11
Lumicon, tracking earth satellites with television techniques, 1958
11
12
Lick Observatory data, lunar photograph inventories, circa 1959
11
13
Moon Image rating cards, Lick and McDonald Observatories, by atlas number, circa 1960
11
14
Weather data, charts, graphs (some or all not moon related), circa 1960-2003
11
15
Notes, figures, data, correspondence about telescopes, photography, various topics, 1960s
11
16-17
"Crank" (false) science publications, including Edwin A. Olson, 1960s-1980s
11
18
Fireball Processes, 1961
11
19
McDonald Observatory runs, plate data, 1961
11
20
McCormick Lunar Photographs, correspondence, 1962
11
21
Bubbles on lunar surface, photographs, 1964
11
22
Explosion craters, AEC Nevada, understanding impact craters, correspondence with Dr. I. C. M. Gillespie (Assistant to Kuiper) and Milo D. Nordyke, 1964
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23
Photography darkroom, 1966
11
24
Coronagraphic camera to photograph sun, notes, prints, charts, scale planets and cutouts, undated
Scholarly contributions including publication drafts, correspondence with publishers, drawings, illustrations and figures, peer reviews and other projects involving writing.
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folder
16A
1-3
Publications authored by or with contributions from Whitaker, numbered 54-131, 1965-2011
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folder
16
1
Photographic Lunar Atlas, University of Chicago, 1959-1960
Book drafts, reviews and errata, but mostly research materials related to selenography with many reproduction images and figures organized by author name, mostly 17th and 18th century astronomers.
box
folder
18
7-9
Book drafts, errata lists, undated
18
10-12
Images, illustrations, figures, circa 1999
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13
Cambridge University Press, royalties, reviews, correspondence, 1999-2016
Materials related to professional organizations in which Whitaker was active locally, nationally and internationally. Organized by organization and chronologically. Includes materials related to conferences, task groups, presentations and leadership roles.
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folder
19
30-32
British Astronomical Association, Lunar Section correspondence, 1955-1962
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33
British Astronomical Association correspondence, Moore-Campbell-Hyde-Whitaker-Arthur-Wood Affair, nomenclature disagreement, 1965-1968, 1974
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34
British Astronomical Association correspondence, 1976-1978
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35
British Astronomical Association correspondence, Geoff Amery, 1979-1986
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36
British Astronomical Association correspondence, 1983-1987
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37
British Astronomical Association correspondence, Richard McKim, 1996-2012
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38
British Astronomical Union, Royal Astronomical Society, 1980s-1990s
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39
International Astronomical Union (IAU) meeting, Dublin, Ireland, photographs, programs, 1952, 1955
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folder
20
1
Internatinal Astronomical Union, General Assembly, Project West Ford, Berkeley, 1961
20
2
Internatinal Astronomical Union, History of Astronomy, Commission 41, 44, 1963-1988
Notebooks created by David W. G. Arthur or "Dai", a lunar cartographer who worked on the Photographic and Orthographic Lunar Atlases. Many contain detailed original drawings of craters and other lunar features in pencil and ink.
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folder
22
1
Engraved sketchbook, 1947
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2
M No. 1, notes, observation logs, 1947-1949
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3
Illustrations, lunar features, figures, 1948-1956
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4
Extract from notebook, Mersenius paper, illustration and Riccioli illustration, 1949-1950
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5
Notebooks, two, 1949-1950, undated
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6
Notebook, circa 1950
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7
Selenographical notes, 1951
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8
Notebook, 1952
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9
Selenographic Coordinates, undated
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10
Shadow heights, Sky & Telescope draft about Lick morning photograph, undated
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11
Paris photographs, computations and observations of lunar diameter, undated
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12
Brussels plates, height measures, undated
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13
Lunar heights, computations, undated
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14-16
Notebooks, four, undated
22
17
Ras. 32 (Lick), observations and reductions, undated
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18
Elementary Mathematical Selenography, undated
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19
Diameters of Lunar Craters, undated
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folder
48
3
Lunar Photographic Studies, Position and Interpretation, D. W. G. Arthur, undated
Extensive collection of photographs and prints arranged by size and topic. Mostly of or related to the moon. Includes early photographs from 1890s-1910s, glass plate negatives and positives, photographs from telescopes, satellites and spacecrafts, full disk images and crater details. Photographs of Whitaker, people, groups and other places found in Series II and Series XI.
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folder
23
1
Stereo rectified, moon, 1952, undated
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2
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England, 1914, copy, undated
23
3
Lunar Atlas, sample prints, Pic Du Midi, December, 1957
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4
Moon craters, 1958, 1965, undated
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5
Telescope image, full disk, 1962
23
6
Transparencies, Kuiper's preliminary rectified atlas, circa 1963
23
7
Lunar Roll, film camera, index with notes, 1969-1971
ACIC "full moon" plates, 7, national Ovservatory, Flagstaff, transparencies, undated
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22
R. W. Wood, photographs through different filters, undated
23
23
Lunar photographs, duplicates from originals supplied by Kuiper, undated
23
24
Photographs of moon, 200 inch reflector, undated
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25
Moon horizons with overlays to trace crater features, undated
23
26
Tycho lava lakes, undated
23
27
Luminosity effects, Light Spectrum Tests, possibly photographic paper tests, undated
23
28
Rocks on the moon, undated
23
29
Flamsteed crater , undated
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30
Aristarchus, [Madric] view, undated
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31
Craters, 1987, 1991, undated
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32
Crater details with grid lines, sets, undated
23
33
Graphs, maps, undated
23
34
Cutout historic moon maps, small circles, undated
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35
Flash cards with photographs of named features, undated
23
36
Lunar basins, research and photographs/charts with cutouts, undated
23
37
Moon, test strips, small sizes, undated
23
38
Moon, small photographs, undated
23
39
Fine print, full disk moon mounted on board, double sided, undated
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40
Photographs and charts, moon, mounted on boards, possibly for an exhibit, undated
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folder
24
1
Event sites, compilation of materials, prints and transparencties, 1970s
24
2
Stereo full moon positives, undated
24
4-10A
Photographs, moon, charts, positive and negative transparencies, undated
24
11
Photographs of Venus, circa 1962, 1972, 1974
24
12
Mariner Mercury frames, copy negatives, undated
24
13
Neptune and Triton, 1973
24
14
[Earth], undated
24
15
Constellation viewgraphs, undated
24
16
Kuiper's discovery photograph of Miranda, undated
24
17
Comets, 1957, 1965, undated
24
18
Comets, aurora, stars, planets, undated, 1954
24
19
Space photographs and equipment, 90 inch reflector, Steward Observatory, 1970
24
20
Glass Mountain, Medicine lake aread, California , undated
24
21
Topographic red-shift photographs, unclear if Earth , undated
24
22
Carrizozo Lava Flow, New Mexico, undated
24
23
Hawaii, New Mexico, Mexico, other places that resemble surface of moon, undated
24
24
Moon-like rock, undated
24
25
Earth landscapes, resembles moon, undated
24
26
Moonwalk images, undated
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27
Man walking on the moon, possibly movie set, undated
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25
Steward Observatory, positive transparencies, RG2 filter and IV-G, 1964
box
26
Lick Observatory, 16 positive transparencies (13 x 17 inches), various phases, prints, 1936-1938, 1940, 1946
box
27
ACIC-Lowell, 24 inch, 1978
27
Kitt Peak National Observatory, undated
27
Lick Observatory, SW 32, undated
27
Catalina Observatory, 61 inch reflector, 1965-1966
27
naval Observatory, 61 inch, undated
27
Mount Wilson Observatory, 100 inch reflector, 1921
27
Zond 8 unmanned vehicle, Luna 22 Orbiter, 1970, 1974
box
28
Transparencies, mostly 5 x 7 inches, some 4 x 5. Includes: Red and UV negatives of the moon, 61" Catalina Reflector, Apollo 16, Mt. Wilson 22", many unlabeled, 1973, undated
Glass plates, Solar Calm UT 24", moon, 8" x 10" and 6 1/4" x 8 1/4" positives, 1964, undated
box
36
Stereoviewer (homemade), 3D image of moon, box of stereo photographs of lunar soil taken at Apollo 11 landing site, circa 1969, undated
box
37
Complete photographic lunar atlas, except for full disk image, 11" x 14" photographs, 1966
box
38
Rectified lunar atlas area prints, 14" x 17.5" photographs, some mounted on board, circa 1963
box
39
Photographs of the moon, many detailed, from various observatories, likely part of the Photographic Lunar Atlas project, 14" x 17" prints, circa 1960
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folder
40
1
Lick Observatory Atlas of the Moon, one bound copy that belonged to D. W. G. Arthur and set of loose pages, 1895-1897
40
2-3
Rectified Lunar Atlas, University of Chicago, page proofs and unbound set, circa 1963
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folder
41
1-2
Ranger [7, 8 or 9] prints, mosaic, undated
41
2
Consolidated Lunar Atlas, one print, 11" x 14", 1965
41
3
Accidental light exposure that resembles impact from small asteroid, undated
41
4
Eclipse, 7 10" x 12" prints, undated
41
5
Prints, one cutout circle, 1963, undated
41
6
Haley's comet, 1910 and comet Brooks, 1911, undated
41
7-8
Prints mounted on board, Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3, Luna, Orbiter V, Apollo 11, undated
41
9
Orbiter IV, 1964
41
10
Albategnius crater area, undated
41
11
Consolidated Lunar Atlas photographs signed by NASA command module pilots: Ken Mattingly, Al Worden, Vance Brand, 4 11" x 14" prints, undated
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folder
42
1
Mosaics, undated
42
2
Apollo, Orbiter 5, fine prints, Orthographic prints, photographs up to 16" x 24", 1960s-1980s
42
3
Ranger photographs, includes mosaics and mapping work, up to 16" x 24" prints, circa 1964
42
4
Photographs comparing same region imaged by USSR Luna program, find prints up to 16" x 24", map created by Whitaker, many photographs mounted on board, 1960s-1980s
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folder
43
1
Lunar Orbiter copy negatives, circa 1967
43
2
Apollo panoramas, 1972
43
3
Mt. Wilson 100" reflector, 2 fine prints 15.5" x 19.5", given to Whitaker by Dr. Alan. Hunter, Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1955, 1919
Extensive collection of maps and drawings in a variety of formats organized predominantly by size. Contains original and reproduction prints of early maps and drawings of the moon and lunar features from the 1600s to 2000s. Of special note are the set of original prints and reproductions removed from two albums compiled by Whitaker titled "Old Prints of the Planets and Moon", and "Historic Moon Maps" found in Box 48 Folders 11-18.
Materials related to Whitaker's early life, 1930s-1950s, including early education and employment, War activities and life in England. Memorabilia includes mementos from NASA missions, newspaper clippings and photographs. Biographical information such as CV's and moon collection inventories. Of special note are three scrapbooks related to the Ranger Mission and Whitaker's career and retirement found in Boxes 51, 52 and 53.
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32
Glass plates, photographs of family birth certificates and Hailsham Rural District Council floorplans, 3 1/4" x 4" positives, circa 1956
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folder
49
1
Personal/Family photographs, 1930s-1960s
49
2
Photographs, Old Roan School, 1937
49
3
Retirement photographs, 1987, undated
49
4
Book Cover, Discovering the Moonland, Dr. A. J. M. Wanders, undated
49
5
Roan School for Boys, Whitaker report cards, 1933-1940
49
6
Old Roan Association, school in England, 1991-2003
49
7
Schoolwork, Optics, circa 1940
49
8
Siemens Brothers & Co., Ltd., Whitaker's first employment, 1940-1949
49
9
WWII, Operation P. L. U. T. O., oil pipeline under English Channel, photographs of pipes made by Siemens, 1945
49
10
Notes, memorabilia, personal correspondence, 1945-1979
49
11
Postcards, Royal Observatory Greenwich, 1950s
49
12
Lecture notes, Fundamentals of Applied Photography, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, 1952
49
13
Awards, thank you letters, press, 1958-2006
49
14
Travel reimbursements, 1967-1976
49
15
Pamphlets, ephemera, 1960s-1990s
49
16
Apollo 16, Kennedy Space Center, visitor memorabilia, travel information, 1972
49
17
Waldo-Capernicus, anniversary, first day issue stamp, 1973
49
18
Dan Osterbrock, correspondence and signed publications, 1976-1987
49
19
Whitaker collection guides, original books, prints, photographs, instruments on astronomy, 1981
