Group Photographs from AAVSO Meetings

The AAVSO is a dynamic organization that has continuously evolved since its founding in 1911. Below, witness how the AAVSO photographs of attendees at the AAVSO Spring and Annual meetings have changed over the last eight decades!

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[links to most recent group photos coming soon]

1916 Annual Meeting at HCO	1917 Formal Organizational Meeting	1917 Spring Meeting at the home of David B. Pickering, Orange, NJ
1918 Annual Meeting on Nov.23 at  Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1919 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge MA	1920 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge MA
1921 Annual Meeting on Nov. 5 at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1921 Spring Meeting at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY	1922 Spring Meeting at the home of William Tyler Olcott, Norwich, CT
1923 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1924 Annual Meeting on Oct.11 at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1925 Spring Meeting on May 25 at the home of J. Ernest G. Yalden, Leonia, NJ
1925 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA
1926 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1927 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge MA	1927 Spring Meeting at Yale University, New Haven, CT
1928 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	192? Meeting	192? Meeting
1930 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1930 Spring Meeting at Maria Mitchell Observatory, Nantucket, MA	193? Meeting
1932 Spring Meeting at Hood College in Frederick, MD	1934 Spring Meeting at Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia, PA	1935 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA
1938 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1938 Spring Meeting at Brown University, Providence, RI	1939 Spring Meeting at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1946 Spring Meeting at Smith College, Northampton, MA	1947 Spring Meeting at Hood College, Frederick, MD	1948 Spring Meeting at Williston Observatory, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
1949 Annual Meeting	1950 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge MA	1950 Spring Meeting at Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
1951 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1951 Spring Meeting at Georgetown University, Washington, DC	1952 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA
1952 Spring Meeting at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY	1953 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1953 Spring Meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1954 Spring Meeting at Columbia University, New York City, NY	1955 Spring Meeting at Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh, PA	1955 Annual Meeting at Museum of Natural History, Springfield, MA
1956 Annual Meeting at Museum of Natural History, Springfield, MA	1956 Spring Meeting at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY	1957 Annual Meeting, Amherst College, Amherst, MA. The newspaper Dorrit Hoffleit is holding announces the Sputnik satellite launching by the USSR.
1957 Spring Meeting at Montreal Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada at Sir George Williams College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada	1958 Spring Meeting, Maria Mitchell Observatory, Nantucket, MA	1959 Annual Meeting at The Edgehill Inn, Nahant, MA
1959 Spring Meeting at Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL?	1960 Annual Meeting at Museum of Natural History, Springfield, MA	1960 Spring Meeting at Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY
1961 50th anniversary meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1961 Spring meeting at Ottawa Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada at the Canadian National Research Council Buildings, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	1962 Spring Meeting at Georgetown University, Washington, DC
1963 Annual Meeting at Aldrich Observatory, Worcester, MA	1963 Spring Meeting at Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach, CA	1966 Spring Meeting at Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL
1975 Spring Meeting at Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta, GA	1977 Spring Meeting at Capitol Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC	1978 Annual Meeting at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA
1978 Spring Meeting, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI	1979 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1979 Spring Meeting, Altamonte Springs Racquet Club, Orlando, FL
1980 Annual Meeting, The Espousal Conference Center, Waltham, MA	1980 Spring Meeting at Houston Airport Hilton International, Houston, TX	1982 Annual Meeting, Center for Space Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1983 Annual Meeting at Maria Mitchell Observatory, Nantucket, MA	1983 Spring Meeting at Quebec Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and l'Association des Groupes d'Astronomes Amateurs, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada	1984 Annual Meeting at Hawthorne Inn, Salem, MA
1984 Spring Meeting, Iowa State University and Ames Area Amateur Astronomers, Ames, IA	1985 Spring Meeting at University of Washington, Seattle, WA	1985 Annual Meeting at Williston Observatory, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
1986 75th Anniversary Meeting and Dedication of New AAVSO Headquarters at Harvard Law School and Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1987 Spring Meeting at Hotel Atherton and Marine Memorial Club, San Francisco, CA	1989 Spring Meeting at Heritage Inn, Williamsburg, VA
1990 First AAVSO European Meeting at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium	1991 Annual Meeting at AAVSO Headquarters and Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1992 Annual Meeting at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA
1993 Annual Meeting, AAVSO Headquarters and Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1994 Annual Meeting at AAVSO Headquarters and Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA	1995 Annual Meeting at AAVSO Headquarters and Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, MA
1996 Annual Meeting at AAVSO Headquarters and Harvard College Observatory,Cambridge, MA	1997 Second AAVSO  European Meeting (Spring) in Sion and St. Luc, Switzerland	1997 Annual Meeting, Chicopee and Williston Observatory, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
1998 Spring Meeting at University of Colorado, Boulder, CO	1998 Annual Meeting, AAVSO Headquarters and Howard Johnson Hotel, Cambridge, MA	1999 Spring Meeting at University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1999 Annual Meeting at Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Hyannis, MA	2000 Spring Meeting and First High-Energy Astrophysics Workshop for Amateur Astronomers at NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL	2000 Annual Meeting at AAVSO Headquarters and Massachusetts Medical Society Headquarters,  Waltham, MA
2001 Spring Meeting at Yerkes Observatory, Madison, WI	2001 Annual Meeting at AAVSO Headquarters and Holiday Inn,  Somerville, MA	2002 Spring Meeting at Waikoloa Beach Outrigger Hotel, Waikoloa Beach, HI
2002 Annual Meeting, AAVSO Headquarters and Holiday Inn, Somerville, MA	2003 Spring Meeting at University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ