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  • Collection: Early American Numbers

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Title page from George Fisher's An American Instructor, instruction manual for schoolchildren and prospective merchants, 15th edition, published in Philadelphia

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Image of instructor giving lessons in schoolroom with charts and instruments and books

Numeration Table from Fisher, The American Instructor
Table illustrating how to read and identify numbers

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Example of double entry bookkeeping, showing parallel lists of money owed and money spent

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Mathematics textbook for schools and merchants

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Mathematics textbook in Hawaiian used to teach math and commerce at a missionary school in Honolulu

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Story about the dangers of participating in the lottery, includes hand painted illustrations.
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