1950s

Montreal 1952

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Montreal 1952

Star Night at Westmount Park in Montréal on 1952 September 25 with a 6-inch reflector.

No identification. Sent by Louie Bernstein of the RASC Montréal Centre. This photo may have appeared in the Montréal Gazette. Graetz Bros. Ltd. Photographers Prints No. 77123.

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London Display 1952

A display put on by RASC London Centre in 1952.

Photograph by Arthur A. Gleason, London, Ontario. Original print at DDO.

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AAVSO 1952

AAVSO meeting group photo at Potsdam, NY in 1952. An image map with names is available.

(The Snap Shop, Potsdam, NY, USA. Original print at DDO. No key.)

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Windsor Presidents

Three successive RASC Windsor Centre presidents (left to right): Cyril Hallam, Dan Bautenheimer, Charlie Bell discuss plans for a meeting in 1950. (Lorne Rogers and Cameron Montrose were also in the original photo.)

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F.S. Hogg

This is none other than Frank Scott Hogg, Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor of Astronomy, etc, etc, and also the husband of Helen Hogg. I am sure you can find an obituary in the Journal [JRASC 45,1]. Frank had a weak heart and died prematurely in 1949, I believe -- otherwise he would have been the third Director of DDO. It is a good picture of him, showing his piercing but firendly eyes.

Photo by R. Northcott, Nov. 1950. Note by D.A. MacRae, 1998.

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