The Unevolved Massive Star Content of the Magellanic Clouds

The Magellanic Clouds offer a unique astrophysical laboratory where we can actually obtain an unbiased estimate of the number of unevolved massive stars above a certain mass. Comparing this number with the {known} number of evolved massive stars, such as Wolf-Rayets, yellow supergiants, and red supergiants, provides a hiterto unavailable test of massive star evolutionary theory. We are engaged in a long-term {5 year} effort to characterize the massive star content of select OB associations of the SMC and LMC using spectroscopy with the Magellan 6.5-m telescopes. Here we are asking for a short { 1 sec} SNAPshot of each of 23 OB associations in the F225W filter. These HST data will provide a crucial complement to our ground based data, allowing us to concentrate on the early and mid O-type stars with our spectroscopy, and to recognize close doubles that would otherwise be unrecognized from the ground.