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- Collection: Early American Numbers
The Wonderful Advantages of Adventuring in the LotteryStory about the dangers of participating in the lottery, includes hand painted illustrations.
Practical Arithmetic; comprising all the rules for transacting business. Executed at Mrs. Rowson's AcademyA manuscript copybook created by a student at Susanna Rowson's academy for girls in Boston. The manuscript seems to be at once an exercise in…
The Young Lady's Arithmetic; containing an epitome of definitions, rules, and examples, which explain in a familiar, concise, and easy manner, the first principal and common use of numbers.A mathematical textbook targeted specifically to women
Newham's Rotary Principal Interest DemonstratorRotating device to use to calculate interest.
Jelleff's Patent Revolving Interest TableRotating device used to calculate interest.
Multiplication Table flash card for 9 x 7Illustrated flash card used to practice multiplication tables; this one has image of dancing slave and rhyme "The British slaves/ are now all…
Multiplication: An Arithmetical GameA game played to learn multiplication tables
Rotary Multiplication TableRotary dial used to solve simple multiplication problems. In each tiny circular window that appear as a spiraled series, the product of the two…
Musical Multiplication TablePoster with score for singing and playing multiplication song, followed by times table.
Stokes's Pictorial Multiplication TableIllustrated mechanism for learning multiplication table using pictures associated with numbers, along with rhymes set to music.