Employee holds in paper ephemera.
From the front matter of Newspaper Accounts by Benjamin T. Norton (1895). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 26, 2007.
May 22, 2012
May 21, 2012
Library artifacts in selective black-and-white and greyscale.
From the back matter of A Manual for Use at Funerals by Charles Jason Staples and Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1903). Original from Harvard University. Digitized December 15, 2007.
May 11, 2012
Employee’s hand with significant distortion and imperfect, reaching autocorrect.
From various pages of An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean by George Keate and Henry Wilson (1788). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 27, 2007.
May 10, 2012
Marbled paper digitized in black and white, with movement.
From the back matter of The Universal Songster, or, Museum of Mirth, v. 2, ills. by George and Robert Cruikshank (1826). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized September 27, 2011.
May 9, 2012
Captured digitization environment.
From the back matter of Billy Whiskers’ Kids: or, Day and Night, a Sequel to Billy Whiskers by Frances Trego Montgomery (1903). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized September 2, 2011.
May 8, 2012
Black and white printed plate, photographed in color, with significant pixellation.
From p. 122 of California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence: A Book for Travellers and Settlers by Charles Nordhoff (1872). Original from Princeton University. Digitized April 6, 2010.
April 29, 2012
Marbled paper photographed in black and white.
From the endpapers of Modern Novel Writing, or, The Elegant Enthusiast; and Interesting Emotions of Arabella Bloomville, A Rhapsodical Romance, v. 1, by Harriet Marlow (William Beckford) (1796). Original from Oxford University. Digitized June 13, 2008.
April 16, 2012
Color images presented in blocky black-and-white and greyscale.
Throughout Motion Picture Classic, v. 3-4 (1915). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 9, 2011.
April 12, 2012
Full-color image from PDF compared to the high contrast, blocky, black-and-white image from the web view.
Discovered by penetranter of John Crooks’s UC Irvine course Digital Media: Current Directions (Arts 12 of Google Books).
From Motion Picture Classic, v. 3-4 ( 1915). Original from The University of Michigan. Digitized May 9, 2011.
March 29, 2012
Marbled paper digitized in black and white.
From the front matter of The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture (1807). Original from University of Chicago. Digitized August 17, 2011.
March 18, 2012
“Moire or digital artifact from scanning of print.” Submitted by pudding.gs (John Crooks).
From p. 64 of The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897 by Henry Saxe Wyndham (1906). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized September 18, 2008.
March 3, 2012
Employee’s hand bitten by high-contrast filter.
From the front matter of Letters from a Father to His Son, v. 2, by John Aikin (1800).
February 28, 2012
Butterflies made transparent by high-contrast digitization.
From p. 144 of As Nature Shows Them: Moths and Butterflies of the United States, v. 1, by S. F. Denton (1900).
February 25, 2012
Light shines on the wreck of the Florida: black and white plate digitized in color, with orange and blue neon effect.
From p. 98 (?) of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1874).
February 20, 2012
Assorted Stanford Library circulation stamps.
From the back matter of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, by Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861).
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