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  • Collection: Early American Numbers

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Rotating device to use to calculate interest.

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Rotating device used to calculate interest.

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Illustrated flash card used to practice multiplication tables; this one has image of dancing slave and rhyme "The British slaves/ are now all free;/nine times seven are/..... ....."

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A game played to learn multiplication tables

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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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Ticket for lottery drawing, 3rd class, to raise funds to build a bridge in Newcastle

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

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Lottery ticket, 4th class, for Harvard College drawing

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Ticket for lottery to promote literature in New York state
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