{"id":"9jwi2mc","internal_id":"c06233bf-335d-433e-8836-a9e27260c0ca","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/7kpa825/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/9jwi2mc"},"title":"Letter from Janet A. Mattei to John C. Haas, October 26, 1998","additional_title":[],"format":["text"],"genre":["Business correspondence"],"medium":[],"extent":[],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Waterman Haas, Phoebe, 1882-1967","Astronomers","Women astronomers","Women in science","Haas, John C. (John Charles)","Mattei, Janet A. (Janet Akyüz)","American Association of Variable Star Observers"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":["Series II: Phoebe Waterman Haas Papers, 1882-2006"],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/","rights_holder":"The American Association of Variable Star Observers","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Auerbach, Jahna","description":"Letter from Janet A. Mattei ( 1943-2004), director of  The American Association of Variable Star Observers, to  John C. Haas (1918-2011) regarding an article about Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967), mother of John C. Haas. \n\nPhoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. ","description_html":"<p>Letter from Janet A. Mattei ( 1943-2004), director of  The American Association of Variable Star Observers, to  John C. Haas (1918-2011) regarding an article about Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967), mother of John C. Haas. </p>\n\n<p>Phoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913. </p>","published_at":"2026-07-31T17:17:36Z","updated_at":"2026-07-31T17:17:36Z","creator":[{"category":"author","value":"Mattei, Janet A. (Janet Akyüz)"},{"category":"addressee","value":"Haas, John C. (John Charles)"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1998-10-26","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1998-Oct-26"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"Massachusetts--Cambridge"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":{"box":"2","folder":"6","volume":"","part":"","page":"","shelfmark":"","reel":"","formatted":"Box 2, Folder 6"}}