None of the above.
From the front matter of A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson (1775). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized June 11, 2007.
April 29, 2013
December 22, 2012
Crinkled circulation slip.
From the back matter of The Lives of Saints, v. 1, by Pedro de Ribadeneyra and William Petre (1730). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized June 15, 2011.
December 1, 2012
Never checked out.
From the back matter of Cider: A Poem in Two Books by John Philips (1791). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized December 2, 2006.
November 26, 2012
Partial NYPL stamp.
From the front matter of My Year in a Log Cabin by William Dean Howells (1893). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized July 11, 2007.
June 6, 2012
Never checked out.
From the back matter of The Slave of Silence by Fred Merrick White (1906). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 15, 2006.
April 30, 2012
Employee’s hand corrected to white; page split with a false digital gutter.
From p. 2-3 (?) of A Select Collection of Poems, from Admired Authors and Scarce Miscellanies (1790). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 27, 2006.
February 11, 2012
January 16, 2012
I submitted this collage of digital NYPL library artifacts (found in Google Books) to the digital Centennial Quilt. —kcw
(via krissywilson)
December 26, 2011
November 30, 2011
![Never checked out.
From the back matter of Gretchen’s Joys and Sorrows, by Clementine Helm (1877). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvhk4oNkBA1qixa76o1_400.png)
Never checked out.
From the back matter of Gretchen’s Joys and Sorrows, by Clementine Helm (1877). [Here]
November 16, 2011
![Reader’s illustration of a horse (with New York Public Library stamp).
From the front matter of Wyoming, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (1888). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luq2r8dpxU1qixa76o1_500.png)
Reader’s illustration of a horse (with New York Public Library stamp).
From the front matter of Wyoming, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (1888). [Here]
August 22, 2011
New York Public Library and NYPL circulation department stamps on every blank page.
From various pages of the Economical Printing Company’s Specimens of Type (1896). [Here]
August 6, 2011
![New York Public Library Reference Department checkout slip; statement that the book is “under no circumstances to be taken from the building” contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital distribution.
From the back matter of Change for the American Notes: in Letters from London to New York by Henry Wood (1843). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lphmuvycdw1qixa76o1_400.png)
New York Public Library Reference Department checkout slip; statement that the book is “under no circumstances to be taken from the building” contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital distribution.
From the back matter of Change for the American Notes: in Letters from London to New York by Henry Wood (1843). [Here]
June 8, 2011
![Spotted pages (dirt? mold?) with New York Public Library artifacts
From front matter of The Pin-Basket to the Children of Thespis by Pasquin (1797). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm9oqunnUJ1qixa76o1_400.png)
Spotted pages (dirt? mold?) with New York Public Library artifacts
From front matter of The Pin-Basket to the Children of Thespis by Pasquin (1797). [Here]
June 7, 2011
![Diagram left folded through digitization; with neon filter and New York Public Library stamp
From p.216 of A Treatise of Military Discipline by Humphery Bland (1743). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmdr107Vpu1qixa76o1_400.png)
Diagram left folded through digitization; with neon filter and New York Public Library stamp
From p.216 of A Treatise of Military Discipline by Humphery Bland (1743). [Here]
