Collection Highlights
Parade on Broadway for McKinley & Hobart
Date:
1896
Object Number:
PR.008.1
Medium:
Photograph
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Rule of Three, with London Merchant
Object Number:
MSS.BV.AfricanFreeSchool.Vol4.
Date:
1816
Medium:
Manuscript
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 7/8 x 7 5/8 in. (32.7 x 19.4 cm)
Gallery Label:
To know the "rule of three" in the nineteenth century implied a certain basic competency in mathematics. As the presence of a London merchant in this word problem might suggest, this problem originally appeared in a British arithmetic text book, and was later copied verbatim in a great many American editions.
Student: Henry Hill
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
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