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Unknown, Elizabeth Langdon Williams, 1920 ca.

Elizabeth Williams, who worked as a computer for Lowell Observatory beginning in 1905.

Williams, Robert Longfellow, Elizabeth Williams with her siblings in the early 1900s, 1900 ca.

Elizabeth Williams with Ursula Louise Ring and Henry Trumbull Williams

Unknown, George Hall Hamilton and Elizabeth Williams, 1920 ca.

George Hall Hamilton and Elizabeth Williams

Williams, Elizabeth Langdon, Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Johnson O'Connor, 1917, 1917-08-24

Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Johnson O'Connor discussing coordinates of Jupiter's fifth moon (Amalthea).

Williams, Elizabeth Langdon, Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell discussing Planet X calculations, 1910-08-15

Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell discussing mathematical calculations of Planet X and Uranus. Williams worked in Lowell's Boston…

Williams, Elizabeth Langdon, Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell, August 1, 1913, 1913-08-01

Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell discussing least square solutions.

Williams, Elizabeth Langdon, Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Wrexie Leonard, November 4, 1909, 1909-11-04

Letter from Elizabeth Williams to Wrexie Leonard discussing a computational error in "Planets and Their Satellites."

Williams, Elizabeth Langdon, Letters between Elizabeth Williams and Thomas Gill regarding least squares and machine computation, 1921, 1903

Two letters between Elizabeth Williams and Thomas Gill discussing the publication of a method for adapting least squares to machine computation.

Unknown, Newspaper clipping about Elizabeth Williams at MIT's commencement ceremony, 1903, 1903

Newspaper account of Elizabeth Williams' speech at MIT's commencement and her studies in math and physics at the school.

Williams, Elizabeth Langdon, Telegram from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell, March 18, 1914, 1914-03-18

Telegram from Elizabeth Williams to Percival Lowell discussing computations of Neptune and Planet X.