Object Details
Description
Olive C. Hazlett (1890–1974), a leading American mathematician of the 1920s, received this wooden tenor recorder from the family of astronomer Harlow Shapley (1885–1972) . Hazlett gave the recorder to a mathematician, Grace Shover (1906–1998), whom she had befriended at national mathematics meetings. Grace Shover Quinn and her physicist husband, Robert B. Quinn (1907–1993), gave the instrument and its instruction book to the Smithsonian Institution in 1983.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Grace Shrover Quinn and Robert Quinn
ID Number
1983.0873.01
accession number
1983.0873
catalog number
1983.0873.01
Object Name
recorder (musical)
Physical Description
metal (overall material)
wood (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 63 cm x 5.2 cm x 5.2 cm; 24 13/16 in x 2 1/16 in x 2 1/16 in
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
web subject
Mathematics
Subject
Women's History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1214097