Tenor Recorder: Museum Object and Cultural History
Tenor Recorder: Object Name: recorder (musical). Physical Description: metal (overall material). Physical Description: wood (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: recorder (musical)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: 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
- web subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Women's History
- ID Number: 1983.0873.01
- accession number: 1983.0873
- catalog number: 1983.0873.01
- Credit Line: Gift of Grace Shrover Quinn and Robert Quinn
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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