Object Details
- Parker, Lois M.
- Description
- This tan wooden model represents four intersecting cubes. A paper tag on the model reads: 97. Another mark reads: Lois M. Parker (/) 4-9-38 (/) No. 97. The model has a total of ninety-six faces.
- Compare 1979.0102.046 and 1979.0102.047.
- Lois M. Parker (1920-2004) was a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, whose father was an insurance agent. She took a high school course with A. Harry Wheeler in 1938. She went on to attend Colby Junior College in New London, New Hampshire, and then obtained bachelor and master’s degrees in music from the University of Michigan. Parker returned to Worcester, where she taught music at South High school for thirty years.
- For models by Parker, see 1979.0102.040, 1979.0102.046, and 1979.0102.048.
- Reference:
- Census, graveyard, and yearbook records from ancestry.com.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louise D. Campbell
- 1938
- 1938 04 09
- ID Number
- 1979.0102.046
- accession number
- 1979.0102
- catalog number
- 1979.0102.046
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm; 4 1/8 in x 4 1/8 in x 4 1/8 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Women Teaching Math
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Women's History
- Record ID
- nmah_905074
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-5078-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
