Book, Progressive Arithmetic Complete
date: label: Date made
content: 1907
name: label: publisher
content: American Book Company
label: author
content: Milne, William J.
notes: label: Description
content: Scottish-born educator William James Milne (1843-1914) was brought to New York State as a child and received his education there, graduating from the University of Rochester in 1868. He quickly became head of the Genesco Normal and Training School in Genesco, New York and then the New York State Normal School at Albany. In the 1870s, Milne began writing a series of mathematics textbooks that included volumes on arithmetic, algebra, and plane and solid geometry.
label: Description
content: According to the author's preface, "The Progressive Complete Arithmetic is designed to cover in a single volume the work in arithmetic usually given to pupils during the last four years of their school course, thus forming with the First Book of the author's Progressive Series a complete course in elementary arithmetic." Each of the four parts of the book was to provide work for one year.
label: Description
content: This example is signed: Helen Yingling.
label: Description
content: In addition to this 1907 edition of the book. there is an edition published in 1912.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Albany
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 Arthur Skebeck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.3001.09
label: nonaccession number
content: 1982.3001
label: catalog number
content: 1982.3001.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (binding material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 3.4 cm x 15 cm x 18.9 cm; 1 11/32 in x 5 29/32 in x 7 7/16 in