Harvard Plate Stacks

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The Harvard Plate Stacks
Mission statement	"to serve as a beacon of knowledge, preservation, and inclusivity, ensuring that the legacy of astrophotography and the pioneering women behind it continue to shine brightly for generations to come"[1]
Commercial?	No
Type of project	Educational research center and historic archival collection
Location	Cambridge, MA
Owner	Harvard College Observatory a member of The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Founder	Mary Anna Draper and Edward Charles Pickering
Established	1880s
Website	platestacks.cfa.harvard.edu

The Harvard Plate Stacks, previously known as the Harvard College Observatory's Glass Plate Collection or the Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection is the largest collection of photographic glass plate negatives of the night sky in the world. The collection was created across a century by the Harvard College Observatory and is a key historical collection at the The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[2]