Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

9-2-2008

Comments

This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Ciphering books (2) of William Carman, a teacher in Mayfield, Kentucky. One book is dated 1815-1816; the other one is undated, but evidently of the same period. The ciphering used is the British pound system. The title page of one volume is by Gavin G. Craig of WKU's Penmanship Department.

Disciplines

History | Mathematics | United States History

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Carman Ciphering 2.jpg (1442 kB)
Page from William Carman Ciphering Book
carman ciphering 1.jpg (2371 kB)
Title Page from William Carman Ciphering Book by G.G. Craig
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