Book, New Practical Arithmetic
date: label: date made
content: 1877
name: label: maker
content: Maglathlin, Henry Bartlett
notes: label: Description
content: Benjamin Greenleaf's series of mathematics textbooks apparently inspired a "franchise" that relied upon the credibility of Greenleaf's well-known name. Henry Bartlett Maglathlin (1819-1910) wrote at least two elocution textbooks around 1850 and served as a captain in the 4th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the Civil War before he turned his attention to reorganizing Greenleaf's textbooks. Between 1865 and 1881, Maglathlin prepared at least twelve textbooks and four keys that were printed by Greenleaf's publisher, Robert S. Davis of Boston, or another small Boston publisher, Leach, Shewell, and Sanborn. This textbook is an 1877 reprint of material that first appeared in 1866 and was revised in 1876. The overall content is similar to that in Greenleaf's <I>National Arithmetic</I>, but Maglathlin has rearranged the topics into a new order. Maglathlin also added study questions at the bottom of each page and several sets of review exercises. Some of the problems are to be done mentally, and others are called "applications." Maglathlin retained the technique of "analysis" used by Greenleaf in <I>National Arithmetic</I>. His book contains some of the new typographic stylings that became popular in mathematics textbooks during this time period-section titles appear in all capital letters, and there is some use of boldface to highlight key terms. Each paragraph is numbered.
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content: This copy was owned by Jennie McGee of South Lincoln, Maine. She left graffiti and rubbings of coins throughout the textbook.
label: Description
content: See also 1982.3001.04 and 1982.3001.07.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Education
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Wilfred A. Mack
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.334401
label: accession number
content: 309501
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content: 334401
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.8 cm x 13 cm x 19.2 cm; 1 3/32 in x 5 1/8 in x 7 9/16 in