Slipher Brothers

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Title

Slipher Brothers

Subject

Slipher, Vesto Melvin
Slipher, Earl Carl
Lowell Observatory
Astronomy
Flagstaff, Arizona

Description

This collection highlights the lives and careers of brothers and Lowell Observatory astronomers V.M. and E.C. Slipher.

Creator

Slipher, Vesto Melvin
Slipher, Earl Carl

Date

1875-1969

Rights

This object is property of the Lowell Observatory Archives. Any public use requires the written permission of the Lowell Observatory Archives. Contact us at archives@lowell.edu

Language

English

Collection Items

Three Decades of V.M. Slipher - Edwin Hubble Correspondence
"Three Decades of V.M. Slipher - Edwin Hubble Correspondence." Article in HAD News (The Newsletter of the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society), Number 95, May 2020

Arizona Legislature Resolution on the Death of Earl Carl Slipher
Arizona Legislature Resolution on the Death of Earl Carl Slipher, 1965

Northern Arizona Furniture Company Documents
Various documents pertaining to the Northern Arizona Furniture Company. V.M. Slipher was the company's President in 1930.

Pluto Discovery Plates
Copy of sections of the original glass plates on which Pluto was discovered. The arrows show Pluto's movement against the background stars. Clyde Tombaugh discovered it by blinking the plates back and forth on a machine called a Blink Comparator.

Letter from Percival Lowell to V.M. Slipher, February 8, 1909
Letter from Percival Lowell to V.M. Slipher requesting spectrographic work on spiral nebulae (galaxies)

Letter from Percival Lowell to V.M. Slipher, January 29, 1909
Letter from Percival Lowell to V.M. Slipher requesting spectrographic work of planets and spiral nebulae (galaxies)

V. M. Slipher, Emma Slipher, Allan Cree with daughter-in-law Margaret Cree and children Robert and Mary in front of Slipher house (Lodge)
V. M. Slipher, Emma Slipher, Allan Cree with daughter-in-law Margaret Cree and children Robert and Mary in front of Slipher house (Lodge)

V.M. Slipher with Dinosaur Track
V.M. Slipher with dinosaur track. Copied from Marcia Slipher Nicholson's family album.

C.O. Lampland, Judge Edward Doe, and V.M. Slipher on the San Francisco Peaks
Picnic at foot of Peaks, from left, C.O. Lampland, Judge Doe, V.M. Slipher, 1905

V.M. Slipher with A.E. Douglass and Museum of Northern Arizona Staff
Vesto M. Slipher with A.E. Douglass and Museum of Northern Arizona staff: Vesto M. Slipher, Catherine Bartlett, Mary Russell Colton, Andrew E. Douglass, Willie Coin, Edwin McKee, Harold S. Colton, Major Brady
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