Edward Charles Pickering
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Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He
Pickering in the 1880s
This portrait was painted in 1911 by Sarah Gooll Putnam and is now part of the Harvard Art Museum.
Pickering at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910
Pickering and the Harvard Computers, standing in front of Building C at the Harvard College Observatory, 13 May 1913
Appalachian Mountain Club
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The Appalachian Mountain Club is the oldest outdoor group in the United States. Created in Boston in 1876 to explore and conserve New Hampshire's White Mountains, it now expands throughout the Northea
Edward Charles Pickering
…mountain climbing and bicycling in earlier days and later he was an interested spectator of football games. He was co-founder and first president of the Appalachian Mountain Club. He was also a lover of classic music. During the first world war he was busy trying to devise useful applications to win the war. The Pickering Polaris…
AMC headquarters in Charlestown, MA
AMC's former headquarters at 5 Joy Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
Greenleaf Hut
AMC Fall Foliage Trip in the Adirondacks