Reference Request
Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 02-187
Bedini, Silvio A.
Silvio A. Bedini Papers, 1952-1996
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Bedini, Silvio A. |
| Title: | Silvio A. Bedini Papers |
| Dates: | 1952-1996 |
| Quantity: | 25.43 cu. ft. (25 record storage boxes) (1 12x17 box) |
| Collection: | Accession 02-187 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | This accession primarily consists of Bedini's correspondence and memoranda with Smithsonian colleagues, scholars, professional organizations, publishers, and the general public documenting his research activities for special projects and publications including a project related to Thomas Jefferson. Also included are Bedini's publications; book reviews; research notes; photographs of scientific instruments, individuals, and exhibitions; copies of primary and secondary sources; and biographical information. |
Historical Note
Silvio A Bedini (b. 1917), an historian and author, attended Columbia University, 1935-1942, and received a LLD from the University of Bridgeport in 1970. In 1961, he began his career at the Smithsonian Institution as Curator in the Museum of History and Technology (MHT), Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. By 1965, Bedini became Assistant Director of MHT, and in 1972 was appointed Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. Following his tenure as Deputy Director, he served as Keeper of the Rare Books at the Dibner Library from 1978 until his retirement in 1987. Bedini is currently Historian Emeritus at the Smithsonian, a title he has held since retiring. During his long association with the Institution he has authored more than twenty books and countless articles, particularly on the history of science, and is a leading authority on the life of Thomas Jefferson.
Descriptive Entry
This accession primarily consists of Bedini's correspondence and memoranda with Smithsonian colleagues, scholars, professional organizations, publishers, and the general public documenting his research activities for special projects and publications including a project related to Thomas Jefferson. Also included are Bedini's publications; book reviews; research notes; photographs of scientific instruments, individuals, and exhibitions; copies of primary and secondary sources; and biographical information.
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 02-187, Silvio A. Bedini Papers
Container List
Box 1
Bedini's Publications, c. 1962-1992
Exposition Books
Holy Smoke
We Declare Independence
That Awful Stage
The Tube of Long Vision
An Early Optical Lens - Grinding Lathe
A Renaissance Lapidary Lathe
G. Campani, Pioneer: Optical Inventor
Giuseppe Campani: Pioneer Inventor
Contributo di Giuseppe Campani alla Scienza Ottica
The Clock of Death
Chinese Mechanical Clocks
The Cobbler's Clockwork
The Borghesi Astronomical Clock
La biblioteca Di Bernardo Facini
XIVth and XVth Century Public Clocks of the Papal Marches
Scent of Time
Rolling Ball Clocks in England
Perpetuum Mobile
Thomas Jefferson, Clock Designer
17th Century Magnetic Timepieces
Science and Liberty: The Scientific Instruments of King's College and 18th Century Columbia College in New York
The Evolution of Science Museums
Die Mechanische Uhr in Japan und China
Compass Cord of Paul Revere
Early American Surveyors
Galileo Galilei and Time Measurement
Galileo Galilei and the Measure of Time
Galilean Jovilabe
The Makers of Galileo's Scientific Instruments
Scientific Instruments of Lewis & Clark Expedition
The 17th Century Table Clepsydra
Evolution of Science Museums
Vatican Library Archives
Johann Wolfgang Gello of Ulm
Godfather of American Invention
The Dentzel Brothers of Ulm
The Perspective Machine of Wentzel Jamnitzer
Lens Making for Scientific Instrumentation in the 17th century
Bramante and the de'Dondi Astrarium
Instrumentation
Box 2
Oriental Concepts of the Measure of Time
Agent for the Archduke
The Unfinished Utrecht Quadrant
The Instruments of Galileo Galilei
Papal Pachyderms
Pectoral Cross Watch of Pope Pius VII
Peter Hill: Clockworker
Time and Light
Andrew Ellicott: Surveyor of the Wilderness (printed copies)
Andrew Ellicott: Surveyor of the Wilderness (photocopies and original in publication)
The Aerial Telescope
Telescope Tubes in the 17th Century
The Practical Science in the American Revolution
The Strange Adventure of Lafayette's Stolen Watch
The Pocahontas Watch
The Tinkers Timepiece
Vatican Astrological Paintings
Vatican Library and Archives
Benjamin Banneker and the Survey of the District of Columbia, 1791
D.C. Washington Markers
Articles [two folders]
Derek J. Desolla Price, 1922-1961
Miscellaneous Articles and Correspondence, 1965-1974
Box 3
Ellicott Research
Ellicott Items
Correspondence: A-H, 1971-1980 [two folders]
Correspondence: I-Q, 1971-1980
Correspondence: R-Z, 1971-1984
Correspondence, 1986
Photographs: Joseph Ellicott [?], etc.
Articles/Publication, c. 1978-1979 [two folders]
Clocks: Joseph Ellicott, 1988
Compass, Surveying (Metal) Andrew Ellicott
Joseph Ellicott Research Material, c. 1979
Photographs: Adams Circle
Photographs: Zenith Sector
Photographs: Ellicott, Andrew: Copying Press
Photographs: Altitude Instrument
Photographs: Seal of Andrew Ellicott
Photographs: Andrew Ellicott Surveying Compass
Photographs: Seal, Andrew Ellicott
Photographs: Telescope
Photographs: Ellicott, Andrew Letters found in copying press
Photographs: Andrew Ellicott Portrait
Photographs: Unlabelled Photographs
Photographs: Unlabelled Negative
Photographs: Various [two folders]
Newspaper Clippings, 1972
Andrew Ellicott Research Material, c. 1972 [five folders]
Cogs in the Wheel
The Planetarium of Giovanni de Dondi Citizen of Padua (in three parts), 1964
Box 4
Collection de Differens Traites Instrumens D'Astronomie, etc
Descriptions et usages de plusieurs nouveaux microscopes… (copy from microfilm)
An Account of the 71st Anniversary of the Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers, 1860 (photocopy)
Ellicott: Miscellaneous Items
Sborník pro dejiny prírodních ved a techniky
IX Acta historiae rerum naturalium nec non technicarum (photocopy)
Die Armillarsphare van Dr. Phil, Friedrich Nolte, 1922
Manuscript Book B Andrew Ellicott
Photocopies of Letters
Photographs: Ellicott Quadrant
Scientific Instruments Research
Handwritten Manuscript
Photographs: Various Images, 1977 [two folders]
Novæ coelestivm (photocopy)
Scientific and Technological Instrumentation displayed at National
Museum of History and Technology (brochure)
General Research Material
Book Cover: Thinkers and Tinkers
Publications, Articles, and Photographs
"The Study of Time" by J.T. Fraser
Scientific Instruments
Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science
Bedini Articles on Scientific Instruments
Photographs: Galileo
Original Manuscript
Astrolabes
Clocks [three folders]
Photographs: Greenough
Photographs: Scientific Instruments
Miscellaneous Photographs [two folders]
Box 5
Photographs of Chinese Sundails
Photographs: Compasses [two folders]
Correspondence: July-December, 1985 Jul-Dec [two folders]
Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, Spring 1987 - A Skirmish in America: A Rare Etching...by Silvio A. Bedini
Early Military Books in the University of Michigan Libraries
Il Bugnarroti de Benvenuto Gasparoni..
Physics and Astronomy by Accrombie
Relazione di Sintesi by Eugenio Garin
Natural History by Maries Boas Hall
Le Musée d'Histoire de la Science by Marla-Luisa Bonelli
Foreign Articles
Photographs: Chinese Sundials
NMHT/Smithsonian Research
Brochures, 1982-1983
History of the National Museum of History and Technology, 1973-1979
A Study of the Smithsonian Centennial Collection, 1972
Collection Academique
The Smithsonian Institution and the American Philosophical Society
Correspondence, 1971
Orrery Photographs and List [two folders]
"The National Treasury of American History Proposal" by Silvio A. Bedini
General Information re: NMHT Research Project, c. 1961-1973 [four folders]
Early Smithsonian
NMHT Museum Project [three folders]
Box 6
"The Sinews of Independence" by Neil York [four folders]
"Research and Study Resources of the NMHT" (1977) by Silvio A. Bedini
Staff Publications, October 1977
"The National Museum of History and Technology, 1974-1978" by Silvio A. Bedini
Museum News Article
Newsletter: Conference Board of the Mathematical Science, May-June 1978
Long Term Plan for Revitalization of Exhibits in the Institution, May 31, 1950
Photograph: Underwood and Underwood
Notes
Conceptual Plan of the Museum of History and Technology
Correspondence, 1975
Relics of the Revolution, 1969 [two folders]
Howe, Elias
Proposal: "The National Treasury of American History," by Silvio A. Bedini
Preliminary Outline: "The National Treasury of American History"
Letter from Wittfield J. Bell, 1974
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois
Newspaper Clippings
Smithsonian Employees (prior to 1876)
Franklin Press, 1979-1980
Franklin Press: Research
National Museum Children's Room
1876 Philadelphia Centennial
Early American Museums [two folders]
Booklet: Exhibits in the Museums of the Smithsonian Institution
Article re: Patent Office, Harpers Weekly, April 11, 1891 [two folders]
Draft Chapters of Book, 1980
Chronology of Events: NMHT, 1978
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and SI News/Photo Recommendations [two folders]
Box 7
SAO and SI News/Photo Recommendations
Photographs: Nouvelle Division des Instrumens
"Editto"
La Macchina Di Leonardo Per L' Orfeo Del Poliziano
NMHT book sources, 1979
La LaFayette Cannon, 1980
Miscellaneous Photographs
Here at the Smithsonian
"In the Smithsonian" Series
The Canvas of Culture: Rediscovery of the Past as Adaptation for the Future
Page 1, Unit V draft (copy)
Lafayette Cannon, 1979-1981 [two folders]
Photographs: Scientific Instruments
Miscellaneous Research Items
Dedication of the Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution, 22 January 1964 (photocopy)
SI Annual Reports [two folders]
NMHT Book: Arts & Industries Building, 1979
"The Torch" Articles, 1979-1980
"Torch" article by FA Taylor, 5 March 1956
"Mechanical Powers"
Patent Models
The Institute Polka
Newspaper Sections re: Smithsonian, 1965-1966
Articles
Significant Patent Models
"The Hardware of History" (1977) by Silvio A. Bedini
Photographs: Arts & Industries Building
Photographs: Patent Office
Photographs: Carl Mitman
Miscellaneous Negatives
Photographs: Exhibitions
Photographs: Smithsonian "Castle" Building
Photographs: Work Shop [?]
Smithsonian Postcards
Photographs: Washington DC
Photographs: A&I Building Storage Areas
Museums: Their History and Use by David Murray (Vol. 1)
57th Congress House of Representatives, Doc. 314: New Building for the UD National Museum, 22 January 1903
The Smithsonian Institution and the American Philosophical Society by Leonard Carmichael, Oct 1957 (reprint)
News articles re: Smithsonian Institution
Photographs: Washington Tents
Photographs of Manuscript
Photographs: Presidential Memorabilia
Box 8
Photographs: Arts & Industries Building/Exhibits [three folders]
Photographs: Miscellaneous Objects
Photographs: Washington and Jefferson Objects
NMHT Postcards
Photographs: NMHT Exhibits [four folders]
Newspaper Clippings and Pamphlets re: Smithsonian Museums, c. 1965-1970 [three folders]
Research Files: Correspondence/Other, I-Z
I (general), 1974-1980
Instruments in Art (photographs)
Instruments: Scientific [two folders]
ISIS: Correspondence, 1965-1986
J (general), 1964-1976
Jesuits in Science, 1980
Jones, Edward, 1964-1977
Research Correspondence: K, 1975-1980 [two folders]
Box 9
Kelly, John T., 1970-1978 [two folders]
King, Benjamin, 1966-1973
Kranzberg, Melvin, 1967-1979
L (general), 1969, 1980
Lafayette: O. Connick Mss, 1952-1962 [three folders]
Lafayette: Printed Resources, c. 1952-1957 [three folders]
Lafayette Watch (photographs), 1979-1981 [two folders]
Leonardo DaVinci: Madrid Codices, 1963-1975
Leonardo DaVinci: Madrid Manuscript [three folders]
Leonardo DaVinci: The Unknown Leonardo, 1973
Leonardo DaVinci, 1980
Leonardo DaVinci: Exhibition Booklet [three folders]
Leonardo DaVinci: "To Do With Time (The Horological Sketches of Leonardo)" by Silvio A. Bedini
Box 10
Leonardo DaVinci: Windsor Collection, c. 1976 [six folders]
Lewis and Clark: Speech and Article, 1983 ("The Scientific Instrumentation of the Lewis and Clark Expedition" by Silvio A. Bedini) [two folders]
Library Research
Library of Congress: Council of Scholars, 1979
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, c. 1963
Lynch, Kenneth, 1964-1986 [four folders]
M (general), 1967
Machgamer, Peter K., 1968-1973
Mailing List: "Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers," 1964-1974
"Man and Time: Proposal for an Exhibition," by Silvio A. Bedini
"Man-Made Man (Mechanical Automata to Modern Computer)" by Silvio A. Bedini
Man, Time, and the Sun
Maryland Academy of Science, 1975
Maryland Historical Society, 1965-1976
"Mechanical Universe (The Astrarium of Giovanni de Donti)" by Silvio A. Bedini and Francis R. Maddison, c. 1964-1973
Box 11
"Mechanical Universe (The Astrarium of Giovanni de Donti)" by Silvio A. Bedini and Francis R. Maddison, c. 1964-1973
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959-1977
Michaelis, Anthony, 1966-1974
Michaelis Collection and Publications
Microscopes, 1963
Colonial American Microscopy
Middelton, W.E.K., 1963-1978
Millburn, John R., 1980
Miscellaneous Illustrations, c. 1974
Miscellaneous Articles, 1979
Museology Bibliography, 1979
Museum of History and Technology, 1965-1979
Museum of the History of Science, 1962-1978 [two folders]
NMHT: Office of the Director, 1980 [three folders]
NMHT: Office of the Director, 1979 [two folders]
NMHT: Office of the Director, 1978
N (general), 1969, 1980
Napoleon's Caesar Emerald, 1979
National Academy of Sciences, 1974-1976
National Archives, 1976-1980
National Geographic Society, 1965-1982
National Portrait Gallery, 1978
National Science Foundation, 1979-1983
National Maritime Museum, 1967-1983
Box 12
National Maritime Museum: Instrument Symposium, 1981-1983 [two folders]
National Treasures Act
Navigation
N.Y. Historical Society, 1963-1978
NISI, 1971-1983
Nocturnal
Octants [two folders]
Obelisks
Odemeters
Optical Instruments [two folders]
Optical Society of America, 1965-1966
Oracle Bones (Chinese), 1965-1967
Orrery
P (general)
Patent Office Research, 1962-1968
Professional Accomplishments Evaluation Committee: Evaluation Plan, 1965-1967
Perpetual Motion in America, 1978-1979
Peters Collection (relating to Science)
Physick, 1976
Port Royal Project (Jamaica), 1978-1979
Prager, 1979
Price, Derek, 1963-1982 [three folders]
Box 13
Priestly, Joseph: Burning Glass, 1965
Photograph and Book Purchases: Correspondence, 1962-1978 [six folders]
Quadrants, 1977
Quadrants, Gunners
Queen Elizabeth II, 1977
R (general), 1969
Research Correspondence, 1979-1984 [eleven folders]
Box 14
Research Correspondence, 1985
Sundials
Richards, Oscar, 1963-1976
Ring Dials
Ripley, S. Dillon Projects, 1979-1981
Rittenhouse, Benjamin, 1975-1980
Rittenhouse, Benjamin: Metal Surveying Compass
Rolph, Miles, 1966
S (general)
Science Museum, 1962-1978
Science Museums, History of: Early Years, 1964
Saxton, Joseph, 1968-1980
Science Teaching Instruments, 1979
Scribners' Sons, 1968-1977
Sectors
Semi-Circle
"Seventeenth Century Magnetic Timepieces" by Silvio A. Bedini
"The Seventeenth Century Table Clepsydra" by Silvio A. Bedini
Sextants
Sheaffer, Louis, 1968-1977
Short, William, 1979
Skills That Made America, 1971
Silver Jubilee Exhibit, c. 1977 [three folders]
Slemp, James, 1965-1974
Smith, William A., 1976
Society of American Historians, 1979
Society of the History of Technology, 1978-1983
Society for Industrial Architecture, 1978
Societe Internationale de L'Astrolabe, 1979-1980
Surveying Instruments
SWABE Astrolabe, 1979
Symposium Washington Collegium, 1978
T (general), 1970-1978
Tchenekal (Russian Instruments), 1963-1970
Technology and Culture, 1979-1984
Telescopes, c. 1965-1972
The Ariel Telescope
The Hurried Pace (XIII), 1982
Theodolites
"Thinkers and Tinkers: The Early American Men of Science," by Silvio A. Bedini
Box 15
Timekeeping, 1968
Time Life, 1964-1977
Torriano, Juanelo, 1980
Tube for Distant Vision, 1972
Tuttell, Thomas: Playing Cards, 1967
Tyler, John D., 1964-1975
Unidentified Objects: Fragments from Rod [?], 1972
United States Merchant Marine Academy (Campbell Collection), 1971
Utah: ACSM-ASP Convention, 1983
"Universe in Miniature" by Silvio A. Bedini, 1964-1965
V (general)
Varden, John, 1979 [two folders]
Volpaia, Della [three folders]
W (general), 1963-1964
Wall, George
Warshaw Collection, 1971
Washington, George, 1965-1977
Washingtoniana, 1972
Watches, 1974-1976 [four folders]
Watt, James, 1963-1974
What's-its Exhibition, 1984
Williams, William, 1967-1972
Writing Desk: NMHT, 1973
Box 16
General Correspondence: A-Z, c. 1978-1988
A (a-l)
A (m-z)
Ashmun, Dr. Lee M.D.
B (a-m) [two folders]
B (n-z) [four folders]
Battle, Dr. John [three folders]
C (a-m) [two folders]
C (m-z)
Collins, M.
D [two folders]
Dibner, Ben
E [two folders]
F [two folders]
G (a-i)
Box 17
Grondive
Galuzzi, Paolo
Garcia, Diego, Jose A.
G (j-z) [two folders]
H (a-h) [two folders]
Hamarneh, Sami
Hansen, James
H (i-z) [two folders]
I
J
K (a-i) [three folders]
K (j-z)
L [three folders]
Library (NMHT)
M (a-h) [two folders]
M (l-z) [two folders]
N
NMHT [two folders]
O
Box 18
P (a-m)
P (n-z)
Price, Derek J. de Solla [three folders]
Q
R (a-m) [two folders]
R (n-z)
Ripley, S. Dillon
S (a-m) [three folders]
S (n-z) [three folders]
S.I. Productions Division
S.I. Press Guidelines
Smithsonian Quadrangle
Supplies
T (a-m)
T (n-z)
Turner, Anthony J.
Turner, Gerard L'E
U
V
W (a-h) [two folders]
Wells, Ellen
W (i-z) [two folders]
X
Y
Z
Box 19
Correspondence, 1986-1988 [fourteen folders]
Research in Progress
Research Aids, c. 1980s [eight folders]
Reviews of SAB books
Book Reviews: Currently by SAB, c. 1986 [two folders]
Annals of Science, 1982-1988 [three folders]
Christie's Auction Galleries, 1983
Galileo Project, 1982-1983 [two folders]
Early American Scientific Instruments
The Process of Galileo
George Washington and the Land (photographs)
Historic Gems, 1980
Incense Clocks, 1980-1983
Miscellaneous Research Projects, 1980
History of Patents, 1960-1967
Peale Museum Project, 1987
Rome Science Museum, 1984
Shadowed Stylus (Sundials)
Sheahan, D.B., 1981-1982
Sound of Time, 1982
Box 20
Sound of Time, 1982 [two folders]
State House Yard Observatory ("That Awful Stage")
Whitaker, 1983
The Nova Reperta ("New Discoveries") by Alice McGinty [two folders]
Wilkes Expedition Exhibition, 1983
Word Processor Computer: Epson, 1981-1984
Yale Instrument Committee
SI Libraries: History, 1990-1992
SIL Facsimile Editions, 1980
Silvio A. Bedini Travel, 1984-1996
Silvio A. Bedini: Proposed Program of Work, 1978-1980
Vatican Project
Research Materials [three folders]
Vatican & Science: Proposal, 1981-1984 [five folders]
Travel to Italy, 1984-1985 [four folders]
Vatican Correspondence: A-M, 1977-1985 [two folders]
Vatican Correspondence: N-Z, 1977-1985 [three folders]
Vatican & Science: Book Outline, 1983
Vatican & Science: Objects, 1984-1985 [three folders]
Box 21
Project Vatican, 1976-1982 [three folders]
Vatican & Science: Bibliographical Source Material
The Papal Pachyderms: Lecture and Article, 1982-1985 [two folders]
Project Vatican: Articles, c. 1984 [three folders]
Vatican Obelisk, 1982 [two folders]
Vatican Library and Archives, 1987
"The Vatican's Astronomical Paintings" by Silvio A. Bedini, 1978-1982 [four folders]
Vatican & Science: Articles [three folders]
Instruments in Art, 1962
Vatican News, c. 1984 [three folders]
The Vatican & the New World, 1977
Vatican Scientific Collections, 1980 [two folders]
Vatican Timekeeping, 1981
The Vatican and Calendar Reform, 1984
Barberini Instruments, 1978
Cryptography [two folders]
"Research at the Vatican," (1978) by Silvio A. Bedini
Lecture: Vatican Research, 1978 [two folders]
"The Academia Fisicamatematica Romana (A Preliminary Survey)" by Silvio A. Bedini, 1978
Tower of the Winds, 1980
Cardinal Baum, 1976-1981
Vatican Musei, Monumenti, & Gallerie, 1977-1980
Box 22
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticona, 1977-1978
Archivio Segreto Vaticano, 1977-1979 [two folders]
Specola Vaticana, 1976-1980
Papal Processions
Vatican Film Project, 1981
Travel to Italy, 1979-1984
Papal Correspondence, 1981
Vatican: Mappamundi
Vatican Research Expenses, 1982
Vatican Exhibition, 1981
Vatican Correspondence, 1981
Thomas Jefferson Project
Chronology of Thomas Jefferson and Science
Thomas Jefferson: New Chapters
Correspondence: A-M, 1965-1984
Correspondence: N-Z, 1965-1984
Correspondence: Bear, James A. Jr., 1963-1984
Correspondence: H.J. Coolidge, 1981-1985
Cryptography: Negatives
Cryptography: Papers, c. 1974-1977
Frontiers: Philadelphia Academy of Science, 1981-1982
"Thomas Jefferson and the Beginnings of American Paleontology" by Silvio A. Bedini, c. 1984 [two folders]
Photographs: Thomas Jefferson and Science Exhibition [four folders]
Photographs: Declaration of Independence Desk [two folders]
Declaration of Independence Desk, 1979-1985 [two folders]
Box 23
Declaration of Independence Desk, 1979-1985 [three folders]
Study at Monticello
Photographs: Polygraphs [three folders]
Polygraph: Thomas Jefferson, 1971-1982 [three folders]
"Thomas Jefferson: Man of Invention" by Silvio A. Bedini
Thomas Jefferson & Science Exhibit Catalogue Scripts
Thomas Jefferson Exhibition: Loans, 1986
Thomas Jefferson Exhibition: Script, 1981 [two folders]
Thomas Jefferson Exhibition: Articles, 1981-1982
Thomas Jefferson Exhibition: News Releases, 1981
Research: Thomas Jefferson, 1976-1985 [six folders]
Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text
Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography
Correspondence: The Scientific Pursuits of Thomas Jefferson, 1973-1979
Box 24
Lectures on Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson Bible, 1975 [two folders]
Harper's Weekly
Research Files: Correspondence/Other, A-B
A (general), 1964-1978 [four folders]
Abrams, Harry N., 1969-1980
Adler Planetarium, 1966-1970
Air Pumps (Dr. Prince)
Almanacs (photographs)
Almanacs: Research
Althin, Tarsten, 1964-1969
American Antiquarian Society, 1964-1979
American Association of Museums, 1975-1979
American Historical Review, 1971-1975
American Philosophical Society, c. 1964-1984 [four folders]
Animals on the Mall, 1975-1976
Announcement of Books, 1976
Antiquitarian Horological Society, 1979
Anthony, Susan B., 1975
Apostolic Clocks, 1980
Applied Optics, 1965
Armillary Spheres (photographs)
Astrarium (photographs)
Astrolabes: Research, 1963-1983
Astrolabes: Photographs [two folders]
Box 25
Astrolabes: Photographs, c. 1966-1980 [five folders]
Astrolabe Analysis Project, 1963-1972 [two folders]
Astronomy, 1968, 1984
B (general), 1970-1978 [four folders]
Backstaffs (photographs)
Barometers (photographs)
Bassett, Preston, 1963-1981
Bedini, Silvio A.: Research Grant/Sabbatical, 1984-1985
Bedini, Silvio A.: Publications, 1983-1984 [two folders]
Bedini, Silvio A.: Projects in Progress, 1969-1978 [two folders]
Bedini, Silvio A.: Bibliography
Bedini, Silvio A.: Biographical Sketch
Box 26
Photographs: Thomas Jefferson and Science
Photographs: Arts & Industries Building
Photographs/Negatives: Octants
Photographs: Miscellaneous
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