Geometric Model by Agda Carlson, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Regular Octahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1915 01 26
name: label: maker's teacher
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Carlson, Agda
notes: label: Description
content: This tan paper cut and folded model consists of twelve equilateral triangles. The pieces can be folded to form a regular octahedron. Circular arcs are indicated in pencil next to many edges
label: Description
content: An inscription in pencil on one side reads: Agda Carlson (/) Jan-26-1915. An inscription on the inside (as folded) reads: Original Model.
label: Description
content: Agda Carlson (1896-1980) was the Massachusetts-born daughter of Swedish immigrants to the United States. Yearbook records from the Old English High School and New High School of Commerce in Worcester, Massachsetts, for 1915 indicate that she planned to work in a hospital after graduating that year. However, subsequent Census records indicate that she continued to live with her parents and worked in Worcester as a dressmaker (1920) and a lace maker in a factory (1930). She is listed in later Worcester city directories as a “designer.”
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content: References:
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content: Aftermath [Yearbook of Old English High School and New High School of Commerce], 1915 gives a picture of Carlson as a high school senior. This, as well as Census, city directory, and burial records have been consulted on ancestry.com.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Women's History
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Women Teaching Math
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304723.701
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.701
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: .1 cm x 5 cm x 4.4 cm; 1/32 in x 1 31/32 in x 1 23/32 in