Interesting Archive

I came across this interesting website via Thus Spake Zuska. It's Harvard University's Women Working 1800-1930 archive from their open collections, and it features "digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections." There are interesting pictures, diaries, and newspaper articles from the times, including this photograph of the observatory computer room and staff from 1891 (where by "computer" they meant "computing by hand"). The women in the picture analyzed photographs from the telescope and performed calculations related to the astronomical data.

There are a lot of interesting resources at that website and I encourage you to check it out!