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Title

Owen Afflick arithmetic notebooks

Authors

• Afflick, Owen, 1792-1841

Other related names

• Hall, Edith Hayward, 1877-1943, former owner
• Maria Hosmer Penniman Library of Education (University of Pennsylvania), former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 1474
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978154605403681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1334941667
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3mc8rz8x

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1807-1809

Summary

Two arithmetic notebooks, with many examples, covering basic arithmetic; weights and measures; simple interest; money exchange; and geometry, for use in school. Written at the Springfield schoolhouse in Springfield (Delaware County), Pennsylvania. Several entries in the second volume are dated to February 1807. Occasional references added later, possibly by Owen Afflick, to farming and weather events in Upper Darby in 1818. Three notes (one with the name Owen Afflick in square capitals in ink; one signed Hettie J. Taylor (or Hettie P. Taylor), Darby; and one by Dr. Thomas Woody, Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania, describing the contents) formerly laid in, housed with the collection.

Notes

• Former paper bindings and many pages badly damaged by damp, with many pages missing text; conserved in 2022.
   
• Four printed maps from the 1850s (one titled Map of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies; one in two pieces titled Map of the Middle States and Part of the Southern; one titled Map of the New England or Eastern States; and one titled Map of the Chief Part of the Southern States and Part of the Western) formerly laid in, housed with the collection. The maps showing sections of the United States are from Mitchell's School and Family Geography.
   

Extent

2 volumes (18, 47 leaves) : 330 x 210 mm (volume 1), 330 x 225 mm (volume 2) +

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Gift of Mrs. J.M. Dohan (Edith Hayward Hall), 1934.
   
• Formerly held in the Penniman Library of Education, University of Pennsylvania, call number Pn 511.8.Af23.
   

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Study and teaching--Early works to 1900
• Springfield (Delaware County, Pa. : Township)--History--Sources

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• Manuscripts, English--19th century
• Manuscripts, American--19th century
• Handbooks and manuals

Licenses

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