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Subject History Place Peru, South America

1. EAP1190/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1190/1
Title:
Endangered Records in the Boyden Observatory Archive
Scope & Content:
Boyden Observatory - named for the American engineer Uriah A. Boyden (1804-1879) - was established as a southern station of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College (popularly known as Harvard College Observatory) in 1890, at Arequipa in Peru. In 1927 it was relocated to South Africa, 26 ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1891-1994
Extent:
25432 File(s)

2. EAP1190/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1190/1/2
Title:
Astronomical Log Books
Scope & Content:
A set of hard-cover note books used to record the progress of research programmes carried out on a certain telescope. During this period of Boyden’s history, photography was the principal method of detecting and recording information. Typically, a piece of glass was coated with a photographic em...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891-1994
Extent:
969

3. EAP1190/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1190/1/5
Title:
Lantern Slides
Scope & Content:
A collection of mounted images most probably used to illustrate lectures and to disseminate news. The slides are a mix of original material from Boyden Observatory and commercially-available reproductions. The bulk of the material consists of reproductions of plates taken at Boyden Observatory (...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891-1994
Extent:
105

4. EAP1190/1/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1190/1/5/2
Title:
Boyden Lantern Slides Box 4: Telescopes and astronomical objects.
Scope & Content:
A collection of slides showing telescopes, observatories, astronomers, and astronomical objects. Several images illustrate the history of Harvard College Observatory, showing scenes from the USA, Peru, and Chile. Two images show Harlow Shapley and Solon Bailey. Other well-known observatories in ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891-1994
Extent:
99

5. EAP1190/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1190/1/7
Title:
Photographic Plates
Scope & Content:
255 photographic glass plate negatives (gelatin dry plates), stored in 23 original plate boxes, haphazardly arranged. All appear to be original plates, mostly exposed in the early 1930s. About half (127) show buildings, telescopes, instruments and people at Boyden Observatory, South Africa, most...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891-1994
Extent:
255

6. EAP1234/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1234/1
Title:
Manuel Moral - Elias del Aguila archive [1900s-1930s]
Scope & Content:
Elias del Aguila was born in Tarapoto in 1875. He was disciple, collaborator and close friend to Portuguese photographer Manuel Moral. In 1903, when Moral opens a new studio at Mercaderes Street in Callao, Del Aguila takes over the studio that Moral previously had at 23-25 Mantas Street in Lima,...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s-1930s
Extent:
2405 TIFF images

7. EAP1299/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1299/1
Title:
Monasterio Santa Rosa de Santa María
Scope & Content:
The Monastery of Santa Rosa de Lima or Monastery of Santa Rosa de Santa María, better known as Santa Rosa de las Monjas, is made up of the Church and the Monastery, it was built in the 17th and 18th centuries, next to the house where Santa Rosa de Lima, Patron Saint of Lima, America and the Phil...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Latin and Spanish
Date Range:
1600-1999
Extent:
13470

8. EAP1299/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1299/1/1
Title:
Proceso original de la vida, santidad, muerte y milagros de la bendita sor Rosa de Santa María del hábito de tercera de la religión de Santo Domingo.
Scope & Content:
Information on the life and miracles of Santa Rosa, by Father Fray Francisco de Valcaçar, attorney general of the Order of Santo Domingo, and Tomás de Paredes, perpetual alderman and attorney general of the Lima Chapter, Justice and Regiment presented to Dr. Baltasar de Padilla, penitentiary can...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1617-1630
Extent:
972

9. EAP1299/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1299/1/2
Title:
Libro en que se asientan las elecciones de preladas de este Real Monasterio de Nuestra Señora Santa Rosa de Santa María y otros hechos y demás cosas que deben quedar en perpetua memoria; a las cuales se dio principio en el año de 1708.
Scope & Content:
Book of elections of prelates of the Royal Monastery of Santa Rosa de Santa María de Lima, of the Order of Preachers, corresponding to the years 1708 - present. It includes a brief account of the foundation of the convent and its first years of existence. Libro de elecciones de preladas del Rea...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1708
Extent:
122

10. EAP1299/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1299/1/3
Title:
Libro de las profesiones y recibimientos de las religiosas de este monasterio y convento real de Santa Rosa de Santa María patrona de todas las Indias nuestra madre, fundado en esta Ciudad de Los Reyes el día 2 de febrero del año 1708.
Scope & Content:
Book of professions and receptions of the Royal Monastery of Santa Rosa de Santa María de Lima, of the Order of Preachers, corresponding to the years 1708 - present. Includes brief news about a mission to found a monastery in Santiago de Chile. Libro de profesiones y recibimientos del Real Mona...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1708
Extent:
248