Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter
Author
Ellen MacGregor
(1906 Baltimore, Maryland - 1954 Chicago, Illinois)
Artist
Paul Galdone
(1907 Budapest, Hungary - 1986 Nyack, New York)
Date1953
Mediumletterpress on paper
Dimensions8 1/4 × 5 1/2 × 3/4 in. (21 × 14 × 1.9 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Laurel Wallace and Joseph Traugott
Object numberPC2021.38.8
DescriptionHardbound book with a cover showing a white-haired woman wearing glasses and carrying a purse and Geiger counter. She is pointing a detector probe at a large rock on the ground. There is a cow and a building with smoke stacks in the background. Ellen MacGregor's character Miss Pickerell was part of a children's science-fiction book series with this example looking at atomic energy.
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Mount Sopris Instrument Corporation
1955
September 1968
