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Byron and Essie White Cohn Collection
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Series 1: Cohn Family

Series 2: Essie White Cohn

Series 3: Byron Cohn

Part 1: University of Denver Administrative Materials

Part 2: University of Denver Teaching Materials

Part 3: Conferences
Part 4: Personal and Professional Materials
Part 5: Publications
Part 6: Equipment and Supplies
Part 7: Research
Part 8: Mt. Evans High Altitude Laboratory
Series 4: Oversize materials
Series 5: Glass Lantern Slides
Box 1
Series 1: Cohn Family
File Folder # Contents
1 Donations
2 Essie White Cohn Memorial
3 Vitae of Essie's Brother, Abraham White
  Photo Album
Series 2: Essie White Cohn
File Folder # Contents
4 Chemistry Teacher Award
5 Clippings
6 Editorships
7 Education
8 Honors
9 The Iotan - magazine of Iota Sigma Pi, women's chemistry honor society
10 Lectures
11 Memorials
12 Personal: Vita
13 Photographs, Personal
14 Photographs, Professional
15 Press Releases
16 Publications and Bibliography
17 Sigma Xi Installation, 1950
18 Women's Faculty Club
  Essie's Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Box 2
Series 3: Byron Cohn
Part 1: University of Denver Administrative Materials
File Folder # Contents
1 Chancellor Alter, 1959-60
2 Annual Report, Dept. of Physics, 1959-61
3 Assistantships, Fellowships, etc., 1961-62
4 Budget Material, Bureau of Physical and Biological Sciences (BPBS), 1949-1951
5 Budget, 1961-63
6 10-year Budgetary Plan, Dept. of Physics, 1960-61
7 Committees, 1935-42
8 Correspondence with Erl Ellis, University Treasurer, 1949-1951
9 Courses, Physics, 1959-62
10 Engineering, 1961-62
11 Equipment Information, 1961
12 Equipment, Dept. of Physics, 1961-62
13 Esso, 1961-62
14 Faculty, Physics Dept., 1958-62
15 Graduate Student Inquiries, 1961-62
16 Laboratory, 1962
17 Dr. Dan McLachlan, Correspondence, 1961
18 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1960-62
19 New Physics Programs, 1960-61
20 Phycs Dept. Requisitions, 1960-62
21 Prospective Students, 1960
22 Registrar Office Materials, 1936
23 Research, 1960-62
24 Research Papers, n.d.
25 Staff Membership Inquiries, 1962
26 Students, Misc., 1960-61
27 Fire Damage Data, 1952
28 Fire Damage, Photos
29 Replacement of Physics Equipment after Fire
30 Fire Folder, Jan. 19, 1952
Series 3: Byron Cohn
Part 2: University of Denver Teaching Materials
31 Class Record Books, 1962-64
32 Class Record Books, 1964-67
33 Class Record Books, 1967-68
34 Class Record Books, 1969-70
35 Course Description - Photography
36 Course Material - Misc.
37 Course Material - Photography Instructions
38 Course Material - Tests, typewritten
39 Course Material - Tests, handwritten, with keys, 1937-1938
40 Course Proposals - United States Office of Education, Engineering, Science & Management Defense Training, 1941
41 Sigma Phi Alpha
42 Student Papers - Cenco Grating Spectrograph
43 Student Papers - Hilger Spectrograph
44 Student Papers - Misc.
Box 3
Series 3: Byron Cohn
Part 3: Conferences
File Folder # Contents
1 Addresses
2 American Association for the Advancement of Science - Rooms available, n.d.
3 American Physical Society Meeting, 1952 - Attendees
4 American Physical Society Meeting, 1952 - Correspondence
5 American Physical Society Meeting, 1952 - Correspondence, Arrangements
6 American Physical Society Meeting, 1952 - Correspondence, Arrangements
7 American Physical Society Meeting, 1952 - Program
8 American Physical Society Meeting, 1964 - Expenses
9 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1961 - Abstracts of contributed papers
10 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1961 - Acceptances I
11 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1961 - Acceptances II
12 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1961 - Acceptances III
13 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1961 - Clippings
14 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1961 - Correspondence with Phillips and White, 1961-62
15 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1961 - Financial
16 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1961 - Letters of Appreciation
17 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1961 - Proposal
18 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1961 - Report to the National Science Foundation
19 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1961 - "Special Issue on Curricula for Physics Majors: The Denver Conference," in American Journal of Physics, v.30, no.3, March 1962
20 Conference on the Curriculum for Undergraduate Majors in Physics, 1964 - Applications
21 Cosmic Ray Symposium, 1949
22 Physics Seminar, Oct. 20, 1962 - Participants
23 Summer Science Institutes, 1958-1959 - Brochures
24 Summer Science Institutes, 1958-1959 - Budget, National Science Foundation
25 Summer Science Institutes, 1958-1959 - Clippings
26 Summer Science Institutes, 1958 - Form Letters
27 Summer Science Institutes, 1958 - Housing
28 Summer Science Institutes, 1958 - List of Alternates
29 Summer Science Institutes, 1959 - National Science Foundation
30 Summer Science Institutes, 1958 - Participant Recommendations
31 Summer Science Institutes, 1959 - Participants
32 Summer Science Institutes, 1958 - Photos - Field Trips, July 1958
33 Summer Science Institutes, 1958 - Photos - Field Trip to Bureau of Standards and Summers Bausch Observatory, Boulder, July 11, 1958
34 Summer Science Institutes, 1958 - Photos - Field Trip to Weather Bureau Observatory, July 1958
35 Summer Science Institutes, 1958 - Photos - Field Trip to Mt. Evans Lab, July 1958
36 Summer Science Institutes, 1958-1959 - Proposals to NSF
37 Summer Science Institutes, 1959 - Recorded Lectures (on 45rpm discs)
38 Summer Science Institutes, 1958 - Rejections
39 Summer Science Institutes, 1958-1959 - Report Material
40 Summer Science Institutes, 1958-1959 - Reports
41 Summer Science Institutes, 1958 - Seminar Presenters
42 Summer Science Institutes, 1959 - Speakers
43 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1958/59-1959/60 - Brochures
44 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1959/60 - Budget
45 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1958/59-1959/60 - Clippings
46 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1958/59-1959/60 - Correpondence
47 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1958/59-1959/60 - Lecture Summaries
48 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1958/59 - Letters from Participants
49 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1959/60 - Letters from Participants
50 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1959/60 - Los Alamos Trip
51 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1958/59-1959/60 - Participants
52 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1958/59-1959/60 - Photos
53 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1958/59-1959/60 - Photos - Los Alamos Lab
54 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1958/59-1959/60 - Photos - Reception/Luncheon
55 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1958/59-1959/60 - Program
56 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1959/60 - Proposal
57 Esso Saturday In-Service Institute, 1958/59-1959/60 - Publicity
Box 4
Series 3: Byron Cohn
Part 3: Conferences (Cont.)
File Folder # Contents
1 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Alberto A. Giesecke, Jr.
2 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Clippings
3 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Conference
4 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Correspondence
5 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Financial
6 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Future Programs
7 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Letters from Participants
8 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Life Publicity
9 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Participants
10 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Photos
11 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Proposals, 1959, 1960
12 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Report, Briefing
13 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1960 - Scientists
Part 4: Personal and Professional Materials
14 Bibliography, notes
15 Clippings
16 Correspondence
17 Education - Undergraduate Studies at DU
18 Education - Graduate Studies at University of Chicago
bk 1 Announcements The University of Chicago, The College and Divisions for the sessions of 1935-36
19 Miscellaneous
20 Patents 1939-1940
21 Personal: Birth Certificate, Vita
22 Personnel File to 1939
23 Personnel File 1940 to 1949
24 Personnel File 1950 to 1955
25 Personnel File 1956 to 1959
26 Personnel File 1960 to 1965
27 Personnel File 1966 to 1970
28 Phonograph Recording - "Denver Greetings"
29 Photographs - in lab
30 Photographs - misc.
31 Photographs - personal
32 Physics Honors
33 Press Releases
34 Speeches and Writing
Part 5: Publications
36 Publications, written by Cohn
"An improved elementary method for the determination of the heat of vaporization" - Reprint from School Science and Mathematics, Nov. 1929
"Luminescence and color excited by radium in zinc borate glasses which contain manganese" (with S.C. Lind) - Reprint from The Journal of Physical Chemistry, March 1938, v.42, no.3
"Luminescence and crystalline structure" - Reprint from The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1933
"Measurements of thermoluminescence of glass exposed to light" (with R.E. Nyswander) - Reprint from The Journal of the Optical Society of America, March 1930, v.20, no.3
"A Modification of the Skraup synthesis of quinoline" (with R.G. Gustavson) - Reprint from The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1928
"Thermoluminescence in glasses which contain two activators" (with William D. Harkins) - Reprint from The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1930
"Thermoluminescence in glasses which contain two activators" (part of Cohn's Ph.D. dissertation) - Reprint from The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1930, v.52, no.12
"Tribothermoluminescence" (with R.E. Nyswander) - Reprint from Physical Review, Oct. 1, 1930, v.36 no.7
"Some considerations of the overhead" - In The Torch, Oct. 1961, v.34, no.4
37 Publications, by other DU physics faculty
38 Publications, about DU research
39 Publications - Atomic Energy Commission Pamphlets
Part 6: Equipment and Supplies
40 Densitometer Instructions and Diagram
41 Freon
42 Geiger-Muller Counter Apparatus - Diagram and Notes
43 Grating Spectrograph Drawings from Applied Research Laboratories
44 Incandescent Lamp Testing Results
45 Misc. Instruction Books and Diagrams
46 Patents Information
47 Public Service Company of Colorado - Turbine Generator (25,000 KW Turbine)
48 Quartz
49 Spectroscope Lens Design
50 Tower (radio?) Welding Diagram
51 X-Ray Diagrams
Box 5
Series 3: Byron Cohn
Part 6: Equipment and Supplies (cont.)
File Folder # Contents
1 Suppliers Catalogs - Lists
2 Suppliers Catalogs - A-Am
3 Suppliers Catalogs - An-At
4 Suppliers Catalogs - Ba-Bl
5 Suppliers Catalogs - Baird
6 Suppliers Catalogs - Bausch & Lomb
7 Suppliers Catalogs - Bo-Br
8 Suppliers Catalogs - Ca
9 Suppliers Catalogs - Central Scientific Co.
10 Suppliers Catalogs - Ce-Cl
11 Suppliers Catalogs - Co
12 Suppliers Catalogs - Cr
13 Suppliers Catalogs - D
14 Suppliers Catalogs - E
15 Suppliers Catalogs - F
16 Suppliers Catalogs - Fairchild
17 Suppliers Catalogs - Ga
18 Suppliers Catalogs - Gaertner Scientific Corp.
19 Suppliers Catalogs - Gaertner Scientific Corp.
20 Suppliers Catalogs - General Electric
21 Suppliers Catalogs - Ge-Go
22 Suppliers Catalogs - Gr
23 Suppliers Catalogs - Ha
24 Suppliers Catalogs - He-Hy
Box 6
Series 3: Byron Cohn
Part 6: Equipment and Supplies (cont.)
File Folder # Contents
1 Suppliers Catalogs - Honeywell
2 Suppliers Catalogs - I-J
3 Suppliers Catalogs - K
4 Suppliers Catalogs - La
5 Suppliers Catalogs - Le-Li
6 Suppliers Catalogs - Leeds & Northrup - Bulletins
7 Suppliers Catalogs - Leeds & Northrup - Catalogs 20-46
8 Suppliers Catalogs - Leeds & Northrup - Catalogs 50-80
9 Suppliers Catalogs - Leeds & Northrup - Instructions, Correspondence
10 Suppliers Catalogs - Leybold
11 Suppliers Catalogs - Ma
12 Suppliers Catalogs - Me-Mo, Mc
13 Suppliers Catalogs - N
14 Suppliers Catalogs - O
15 Suppliers Catalogs - Pa-Pe
16 Suppliers Catalogs - Pi-Py
17 Suppliers Catalogs - Ra
18 Suppliers Catalogs - Re-Rh
19 Suppliers Catalogs - Sa-Se
20 Suppliers Catalogs - Si-Sp
21 Suppliers Catalogs - St-Su
22 Suppliers Catalogs - T
23 Suppliers Catalogs - U-V
24 Suppliers Catalogs - Wa-We
25 Suppliers Catalogs - Westinghouse Electric
26 Suppliers Catalogs - Wh-Wi
27 Rocky Mountain Tool Engineer Product Directory
28 Instrument Purchases - Receipts
29 Correspondence - Suppliers
30 Correspondence - Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp.
Box 7
Series 3: Byron Cohn
Part 7: Research
File Folder # Contents
1 General - Equipment Lists, Various Contracts
2 General - Insurance
3 General - Photos - Charts & Diagrams
4 General - Photos - Instruments, Unidentified
5 General - "The Solar Constant and Radiation Measurements in Meteorology," by Johannes Georgi
6 General - "Theory of Two New Telescopes of the 'Schmidt Type'," by Attilio Colacevich - in Italian with English summary
7 Spectrograph - "Design and Construction of a F/1.1 Quartz Spectrograph," by Byron Cohn … [et al.] - Paper given at Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science Meeting
8 Spectrograph - "The Design of an Instrument to Compute Spectral Energies from Exposure on Photographic Emulsion," by Dana T. Warren and Byron Cohn
9 Spectrograph - Photos - Eclipse Spectrograph
10 Sunseeker Research - "Analysis of Procedure for the Separation of Light Source Components in Skylight"
11 Sunseeker Research - Photos on DU Campus
12 Balloon Spectrograph Research - Elevation-Time Data for Balloon Flight, Dec. 16, 1952
13 Balloon Spectrograph Research - Timer Circuits Data, 1949-50
14 Balloon Spectrograph Research - Photos of Apparatus
15 Balloon Spectrograph Research - Photos of Balloon Flights, DU Campus and Vicinity
16 Holloman Air Force Base Research - Balloon Experiments, 1948-51
17 Holloman Air Force Base Research - Correspondence, 1952-53
18 Holloman Air Force Base Research - Photos - Aerobee Rocket, 1950
19 Holloman Air Force Base Research - Photos - Aerobee Rocket, 1952
20 Holloman Air Force Base Research - Photos - Balloon Launch, 1950-52
21 Holloman Air Force Base Research - Photos - V-2 Rocket
22 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Contract AF19(604)-224 - Aerobee
23 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Contract AF19(604)-224 - Correspondence
24 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Contract AF19(604)-224 - Equipment Lists
25 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Contract AF19(604)-224 - Inventory
26 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Contract AF19(604)-224 - Photos and Proposals
27 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Contract AF19(604)-224 - Radio Frequency
28 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Contract AF19(604)-224 - Research Papers
29 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Contract AF19(604)-224 - Security Clearance
30 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Contract AF19(604)-224 - Spectrograph Shipment
31 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Reports
32 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Drawings & Photos of Release Mechanism and Nose Section, Aerobee no. 30
33 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Contract W19-122ac-16 - Final Report
34 Air Force Cambridge Research Center - Contract W19-122ac-16 - Schematic Drawings of Beacons
Part 8: Mt. Evans High Altitude Laboratory
35 Air Force Data
36 Budget, 1957
37 Clippings
38 Correspondence, 1948-1959
39 Echo Lake Lodge, 1949
40 Experiments
41 Facilities
42 Grant Application, 1947
43 Harvard and University of Colorado, 1952
44 "History, Personalities, Reminiscences," 1973
45 Plans
46 Photos - Echo Lake Laboratory
47 Photos - Echo Lake Lodge
48 Photos - Echo Lake Lodge Construction
49 Photos - Laboratory
50 Photos - Laboratory, 1966-68
51 Photos - Summit
52 Photos - Summit Lake
53 Proposal, 1960-63
54 Reports, 1950, 1957
55 Site Report, 1948
Box 8
Series 4: Oversize Material
File Folder # Contents
1 Photos - Mt. Evans Labortory
2 Photos - Balloon Experiments on DU Campus
3 Photos from Life Magazine - on DU Campus
4 Photos from Life Magazine - Summit Lake
5 Photos from Life Magazine - Mt. Evans Laboratory
no folder Watercolor of Echo Lake Laboratory, by Anna Tongiorgi
6 Inter-University High Altitude Laboratory - Brochure Mock-ups
7 University of Denver Laboratory Plans
no folder Essie White Cohn - University of Denver Diploma, B.A.
no folder Essie White Cohn - Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority Membership Certificate
no folder Essie White Cohn - Honorary Citizen of New Orleans Certificate, March 7, 1961
no folder Misc. Building and Laboratory Plans
Box 9
Series 5: Glass Lantern Slides
Set 1 Mt. Evans High Altitude Laboratory
Set 2 Mt. Evans High Altitude Laboratory - Duplicates of Prints
Set 3 Spectrograph

 

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