Tenor Recorder
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Women's History
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Women Mathematicians
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Grace Shrover Quinn and Robert Quinn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0873.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0873
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0873.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: recorder (musical)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: 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