Owen Afflick arithmetic notebooks, 1807-1809

Contributor:

Afflick, Owen, 1792-1841 (compiler); Maria Hosmer Penniman Library of Education (University of Pennsylvania) (former owner)

Date:

1807

Description:

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.

Language:

English

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.; Hall, Edith Hayward, 1877-1943, former owner.

Subject:

Arithmetic -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1900

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; Handbooks and manuals; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (18, 47 leaves) : paper; 330 x 210 mm (volume 1), 330 x 225 mm (volume 2) + 4 maps, 3 notes.

Geographic Subject:

Springfield (Delaware County, Pa. : Township) -- History -- Sources

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

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.; Former paper bindings and many pages badly damaged by damp, with many pages missing text; conserved in 2022.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 1474