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Cotton Calculator

Cotton Calculator
Description:

Pamphlet with printed tables used to calculate prices of cotton. According to the title page, "Showing the results of any multiplications of all quantities from 300 to 600, at rates beginning with 1-20c or 5 points, and advancing in five points, one-sixteenth, one-eighth and one-quarter of a cent, and by cents from one to thirty." The title page also includes examples to show how to use the tables for calculations.

Creator: Unknown
Location:
Creation Date: 1917
Partner(s):
University of North Texas Libraries
Collection(s):
Texas History Collection
Creator:
Unknown
Publisher Info:
Publisher Name: Cotton Manual Pub. Co.
Place of Publication: Atlanta, Georgia
Original Creation Date: 1917
Coverage:
Place
United States - Texas
Era
New South, Populism, Progressivism, and the Great Depression, 1877-1939
Description:

Pamphlet with printed tables used to calculate prices of cotton. According to the title page, "Showing the results of any multiplications of all quantities from 300 to 600, at rates beginning with 1-20c or 5 points, and advancing in five points, one-sixteenth, one-eighth and one-quarter of a cent, and by cents from one to thirty." The title page also includes examples to show how to use the tables for calculations.

Note:

On cover: "Compliments of First National Bank, McKinney, Texas."

Physical Description:

[32] p. ; 23 x 11 cm.

Language: English
Subject(s):
Keyword(s): calculations | mathematical tables | crops
Partner:
University of North Texas Libraries
Collection:
Texas History Collection
Identifier:
  • CALL-NO: 510 C829
  • OCLC: 40485434 |
  • ARK: ark:/67531/metapth46831
Resource Type: Book
Format: Text

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