Object Details
maker
Daily, L. Mae
Description
This cut and folded tan paper model has a hexagon on the top and the bottom and twelve isoceles triangles around the sides.The side triangles have their bases on alternate hexagons.
A mark on the model reads: Miss Daily.
Compare 304723.146, 1979.0102.345, 1979.0102.346, MA.304723.462, and MA.304723.675.
Lena Mae Daily (1904-1973) was an undergraduate at Brown University's Women's College who took a course from Wheeler in the spring of 1925. She sent him a letter in July of that year showing several models she had made (see 1979.3009.110) Daily would go on to get an M.A. in mathematics at Brown in 1932, and to teach mathematics in the Warwick, Rhode Island, school system from 1926 until her marriage to Allie C. Aldrich in 1942. For models by Daily, see 1979.0102.260, MA.304723.493, and probably MA.304723.676.
Reference:
Brown Alumni Monthly, vol. 74, #4, January, 1974, p. 51.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
date made
ca 1925
ID Number
MA.304723.676
accession number
304723
catalog number
304723.676
Object Name
Geometric Model
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
tan (overall color)
cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
Measurements
average spatial: 3.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 3.5 cm; 1 3/8 in x 2 5/32 in x 1 3/8 in
place made
United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Women's History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1073407