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1800s

Math problems
A schoolteacher's manuscript exercise book containing a variety of simple and complex mathematical problems, 1806, Pennsylvania.   including such all-time favorite as the two travelers starting off from two points of origin traveling as such a speed  . . . under the category: "Promiscuous Questions"
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January 29, 2009
Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, 1800s, 1810s, account, book, exercise, math, pennsylvania, problem, question, schoolteacher, word
Beware of Foreign Lobsters!
A series of broadsides from 1715, forming a dialogue arguing for and against the presence of foreign fishermen in English waters.
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December 11, 2008
Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, 1715, 1800s, 18th, broadside, century, coast, england, fish, fishermen, fishing, lobster, thames, vessel
Visual dictionary
A graphic vocabulary list intended for "sourds-muets" (deaf-mutes) printed in Nancy, France, in 1830.
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September 25, 2008
Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, 1800s, book, deaf, dictionary, france, mute, visual, vocabulary
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