Arithmetic.
From p. 1 of The Cork Remembrancer by John Fitzgerald (1783). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized October 18, 2007.
April 22, 2013
February 4, 2013
Calendar page obscures plate.
From p. 30 of The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II: 1576-1612 by Henry Carrington Bolton (1904). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 28, 2007.
January 10, 2013
Child-colored plate.
From the title page of Olney’s First Lessons in Arithmetic by Edward Olney (1884).Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized September 9, 2009.
November 10, 2012
Scribbles, scratching, letters, and arithmetic.
From Simple Truths in Verse for the Amusement and Instruction of Children at an Early Age by Mrs. Mary Belson Elliott (1816). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 8, 2008.
September 14, 2012
A collage of use: arithmetic, writing, doodling, barcode, card folder, clip of digitization equipment.
From the back matter of The Rudiments of Navigation by Mungo Murray (1760). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 16, 2006.
July 21, 2012
Scribbles, doodles, and drawings everywhere.
Throughout The Principles of Arithmetic by Joseph Ray (1856). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 6, 2007.
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May 29, 2012
Arithmetic.
From the back matter of American Historical Tales for Youth by Francis Lister Hawks (1801). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized June 12, 2007.
April 18, 2012
“This book just has a lot of awesome things going on. Someone was practicing their math on the front blank pages and maybe someone else was practicing their handwriting on the last blank pages. There are also doodles throughout and the book appears to have suffered some water damage and rough readers (torn/ripped pages).”
Submitted by Krista Dukes, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
Throughout Conspiracy of Catiline by Charles Anthon (1854). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 2, 2008.
March 13, 2012
A blush of red crayon, a little arithmetic, and a riot of library artifacts.
From the back matter of The Rainbow by David Herbert Lawrence (1922).Original from Indiana University. Digitized August 5, 2010.
March 1, 2012
Math worked through in the endpapers.
From College Algebra, v. 2, by Henry Lewis Rietz and Arthur Robert Crathorne (1919).
January 6, 2012
December 31, 2011
Marked-up table of contents with autolinks and arithmetic.
From The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton Jesse Hendrick (1920).
September 15, 2011
MSS notes: recipes and page numbers, arithmetic and animal rights (“To roast lobster alive / What infernal cruelty”).
From back matter of The Lady’s Companion: or, An Infallible Guide to the Fair Sex (1743). [Here]
August 18, 2011
![Arithmetic penciled in endpapers.
From back matter of American Practical Navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch and Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch (1841). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq3ny0Dw441qixa76o1_1280.png)
Arithmetic penciled in endpapers.
From back matter of American Practical Navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch and Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch (1841). [Here]
