Tenor Recorder

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Tenor recorder.

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

web subject: Mathematics
Subject: Women's History

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Credit Line: Gift of Grace Shrover Quinn and Robert Quinn

Data Source: National Museum of American History

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

Metadata Usage: CC0

GUID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-a17a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID: nmah_1214097