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
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Women Mathematicians
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Mathematics
- Subject
- Women's History
- Record ID
- nmah_1214097
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-a17a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
