Handwritten copy of a poem:
From the front matter of A View of the Structure, Functions, and Disorders of the Stomach and Alimentary Organs of the Human Body by Thomas Hare (1821). Original from Harvard University. Digitized January 27, 2006. (Poem source)
Snowflake effect; light spots and textual ghosts on darker page ground (mold or aging?).
From various pages of Executive Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives at the First Session of the Twenty-Second Congress … in 7 Volumes, v.3 (1832). [Here]
