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Includes views of the David Dunlap Observatory Staff (the earliest dates 1939); group photos and informal images documenting meetings and events of astronomical associations such as the Canadian contingent to the IAU meeting in Dublin in 1955, a reception of the RASC in 1958, the IAU 1961 meeting at Berkley, the IAU National Committee for Canada meeting in Toronto, 1964, Sir Charles Wright RCI lecture at the University of Alberta, 1965, meeting of the AAVSO in 1983 and several others; photos used in the RASC journal and other images of observatories and/or astronomical observations which were sent to her as a result of her popularity among the general public; some historical photographs including images of Harlow Shapley at work, portraits of J.S. Plaskett early director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, and his successor Joseph Pearce and, of some significance, three group photos of meetings of Canadian and American astronomers ca. 1908-191-.
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