{"id":"fiq4ffr","internal_id":"a075f200-5384-4165-8a96-dc3b0e33e502","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/1wrbti8/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/fiq4ffr"},"title":"Letter from John C. Haas to John Lankford, September 29, 1997","additional_title":[],"format":["text"],"genre":["Business correspondence"],"medium":[],"extent":[],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Waterman Haas, Phoebe, 1882-1967","Lankford, John, 1934-","Haas, John C. (John Charles)","Astronomers","Women astronomers","Women in science"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":["Series II: Phoebe Waterman Haas Papers, 1882-2006"],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/","rights_holder":"David Haas","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Auerbach, Jahna","description":"Letter from John C. Haas (1918-2011) to John Lankford, dated September 29, 1997. Haas compliments Lankford on his new book American Astronomy, and tells him about his mother, Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967). \n\nPhoebe Waterman Haas was one of the first American women to earn her doctorate in astronomy in 1913.","description_html":"<p>Letter from John C. Haas (1918-2011) to John Lankford, dated September 29, 1997. Haas compliments Lankford on his new book <i>American Astronomy</i>, and tells him about his mother, Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967). </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":"2026-07-31T15:44:23Z","updated_at":"2026-07-31T15:44:59Z","creator":[{"category":"author","value":"Haas, John C. (John Charles)"},{"category":"addressee","value":"Lankford, John, 1934-"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1997-09-29","start_qualifier":"","finish":"2006","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1997-Sep-29 – 2006"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"Pennsylvania--Villanova"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":{"box":"2","folder":"6","volume":"","part":"","page":"","shelfmark":"","reel":"","formatted":"Box 2, Folder 6"}}