Solitaire Game Once Owned by Olive C. Hazlett
notes: label: Description
content: This game consists of a wooden octagonal board with handle and thirty-seven white pegs in an open box. There are thirty-six holes in the board, arranged as in European peg solitare. There is a badly worn set of instructions, giving the name of the game and the rules in French. The board shown on the instructions is not exactly the same shape in its handle as the one received.
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content: The dimensions given include the instructions, unfolded.
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content: Associated with the mathematician Olive C. Hazlett.
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content: For related objects, see 1998.0314 and 2015.3004.
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content: For an account of a similar object, see The Jerry Slocum Mechanical Puzzle Collection, Lilly Library, Indiana University, object 03664.
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content: Reference:
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content: John D. Beasley, <I>The Ins and Outs of Peg Solitaire</I>, Oxford: Oxford University Press,1985.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Women Mathematicians
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hermitage of St. Joseph
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0027.14
label: accession number
content: 2015.0027
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0027.14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: game
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (board, box material)
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content: bone (pegs material)
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content: paper (instruction material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.4 cm x 14.5 cm x 26.5 cm; 15/16 in x 5 23/32 in x 10 7/16 in