April 21, 2012
OCR recognizes text from title page, even when photographed through protective tissue. Discovered by carolinhaney of John Crooks’s UC Irvine course Digital Media: Current Directions (Arts 12 of Google Books). From the title page of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1906). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 15, 2008.

OCR recognizes text from title page, even when photographed through protective tissue.

Discovered by carolinhaney of John Crooks’s UC Irvine course Digital Media: Current Directions (Arts 12 of Google Books).

From the title page of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1906). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 15, 2008.

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December 24, 2011
Newspaper clipping pasted in. From the back matter of A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens (1845). 

Newspaper clipping pasted in.

From the back matter of A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens (1845). 

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