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  • Collection: Early American Numbers

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A table explaining and visualizing the numeration system for schoolchildren and others learning the fundamentals of math and calculation.

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Bound manuscript of arithmetic textbook created by student in Susanna Rowson's academy for girls in Boston. Handwritten book is simultaneously an exercise in learning math, penmanship, and business genres.

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A 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 penmanship and in learning math and other commercial practices and genres, perhaps following the principal…

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Lottery ticket, 6th class, for Rhode Island state lottery

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Rotary dial used to solve simple multiplication problems. In each tiny circular window that appear as a spiraled series, the product of the two aligned numbers around the outside of dial appear.

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Illustrated mechanism for learning multiplication table using pictures associated with numbers, along with rhymes set to music.
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