Fore-edge and employee’s (distorted) hand.
From Psalmi Finn (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 21, 2010.
May 14, 2013
May 1, 2013
Reanimated stain.
From L’Examen de Soy-Mesme pour Bien se Préparer à la Communion par Jean Claude (1682). Original from the Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 16, 2010.
November 27, 2012
Employee’s autocorrected hand hovers over the page.
Throughout A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
November 8, 2012
Reanimated water stain.
From Syntagma de Studio Liberali by Gabriel Naudé (1632). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized March 12, 2010.
November 6, 2012
An employee moves through the book.
Throughout Capt. John Smith: of Willoughby by Alfoed, Lincolnshire; President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England, v. 16, pt. 2, by John Smith, ed. Edward Arber (1895). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
November 2, 2012
Moiré shimmer.
(Plate photographed twice, with two different moire patterns.)
From Reindeer, Dogs, and Snow-shoes: A Journal of Siberian Travel and Explorations Made in the Years 1865, 1866, and 1867 by Richard James Bush (1871). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization.
October 6, 2012
Reanimated flipping gesture.
From A New Collection of Voyages and Adventures (1711). Original from Oxford University. Digitized June 30, 2006.
September 24, 2012
Reanimated stain.
From Tavern Anecdotes, and Reminiscences of the Origin of Signs, Coffee-houses, &c by William West (1830). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 17, 2008.
September 21, 2012
An employee flips through pages.
From A System of Mineralogy: Including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography by James Dwight Dana (1837). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized April 25, 2006.
September 19, 2012
Reanimated fore-edge spill.
From Astro-Meteorologica: Or, Aphorisms of the Coelestial Bodies by John Goad (1699). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized June 15, 2012.
September 6, 2012
Employee’s reanimated gesture.
From The Retir’d Gard’ner: Being a Translation of Le Jardinier Solitaire, or, Dialogues Between a Gentleman and a Gard’ner by François Gentil, trans. by George London and Henry Wise (1706). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized July 19, 2006.
September 5, 2012
Reanimated water stain.
From Medulla Aurea de Arte Grammatica Quatuor Partium Alexandri (1502). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized July 5, 2012.
August 19, 2012
Reconstructed page-turning gesture.
Throughout A Treatise on Naval Gunnery by Sir Howard Douglas (1860). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 19, 2006.
July 27, 2012
Reconstructed page-turning gesture.
From Teacher’s Manual for Freehand Drawing in Intermediate Schools by Walter Smith (1879). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 9, 2007.
July 26, 2012
Reanimated ink stain.
From The Elements of Book-Keeping by Patrick Kelly (1805). Original from the University of California. Digitized December 13, 2007.
