For the complete text [PDF] of Life on Mt. Hamilton, 1899-1913
Photo: Kenneth Campbell, 1962
Kenneth Campbell was a noted research engineer from Ridgewood, New Jersey. His father, William Wallace Campbell, was Director of the Lick Observatory from 1901 to 1930. Descriptions of living conditions on Mount Hamilton at the turn of the century--the Mt. Hamilton School, water supply, plumbing, food supplies, mail and banking, health care, a nine hole golf course, hunting and fishing, baseball, hiking, funerals and church attendance, and early automobiles. Discussion of early Lick telescopes, eclipse expeditions around the world, and sketches of early Lick astronomers as Campbell remembered them from his youth.
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