Notes and Stories of A. Harry Wheeler
date: label: date made
content: 1929-1945
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: These materials are divided into four folders containing groups of sheets written by A. Henry Wheeler, a mathematics teacher.
label: Description
content: Folder 1 includes a handwritten story by Wheeler that is dated April 22, 1929. The story is about “The man who tried to improve Nature.”
label: Description
content: Folder 2 inlcudes eight pages of quotations Wheeler found in 4 books in the series “Wisdom of the East:” <I>The Bustan of Sadi</I>, <I>Yang Chu’s Garden of Pleasure</I>, <I>The Sayings of Lao Tzu</I>, and <I>Musings of a Chinese Mystic</I>, that were published in the early 20th century. Half of these pages have include part of a six page story, “The Three Wise Fools Go to a Fire” that is dated 7-16-45.
label: Description
content: Folder 3 contains a typescript for a book, Kitty Mu, that Wheeler wrote and illustrated with tangrams [see 1979.3002.134 for a short description of tangrams and notes about a 1908 article “Tales with Tangrams”]. The final page is labeled “THE SEVEN CLEVER BLOCKS,” [these are mentioned in the 1908 article] and shows the seven shapes that make up every tangram.
label: Description
content: Folder 4 contains handwritten and typed draft a book, Some People are Like That, a book that Wheeler wrote and illustrated with tangrams. There are also some typed lists of various types of people with handwritten description of tangrams and transformations of related to each type, e.g. the tangram for The Stubborn Man is transformed from a man to a mule.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3002.130
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.130
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets, Group of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.5 cm x 30 cm x 22 cm; 19/32 in x 11 13/16 in x 8 21/32 in