Plates photographed with neon moiré.
Throughout Cross Country With Horse and Hound by Frank Sherman Peer (1902). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 1, 2008.
May 31, 2012
May 31, 2012
Plate photographed through protective tissue.
The frontispiece to A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1810). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 8, 2006.
May 31, 2012
Captured page-turning motion gives dynamism to the printed plate.
From p. 106 of With Hound and Terrier in the Field: Hunting Reminisces by Alys F. Serrell (1904). Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Digitized September 11, 2009.
May 30, 2012
Turning pages and employee’s finger autocorrected with text.
From p. 12-13 (?) of A Treatise on the Hair by James Woodman (1835). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 7, 2006.
May 30, 2012
Text visible through the page (the subject of the girl’s gaze).
Also, an amazing plate: “The mother stated that when three months pregnant with the child she was much terrified by a monkey attached to a street organ, which jumped on her back as she was passing by.”
From p.82 of The Human Hair: Its Structure, Growth, Diseases, and Their Treatment by Hermann Beigel (1869). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 23, 2007.
May 29, 2012
Inscription of ownership - “John Amory.”
From the back matter of The Child’s Instructor by John Ely (1818). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized August 24, 2006.
May 29, 2012
An employee’s finger and ring distorted by movement.
From p. li (?) of The Sia by Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1894). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
May 29, 2012
Arithmetic.
From the back matter of American Historical Tales for Youth by Francis Lister Hawks (1801). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized June 12, 2007.
May 29, 2012
“Musical notation cropped in such a way that no musical notes remain visible. In addition, this entire book has been digitized in reverse page order, beginning with 357 and proceeding backwards to the beginning to the book. Also, text recognition software incorrectly believes this book to be in Arabic, for some reason.”
Submitted by Gregory Bloch.
From The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music: Being a Selection of the Most Approved Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Anthems, Sentences, Chants, &c. : Together with Many Beautiful Extracts from the Works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Other Eminent Composers, Harmonized for Three and Four Voices, with a Figured Base for the Organ and Piano Forte (1830). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 7, 2007.
May 26, 2012
Writing autolinked with items from the table of contents (“My Dear Lame / It is pleasure— This / is the letter ??? / Pinkard written to / Miss Lambe”).
From p. xii of Poetry for Children, ed. J. Aikin (1805). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2007.
May 26, 2012
Turning pages.
From p. 130-133 (?) of Essays on the Duty of Parents and Children by Cyrus Comstock (1810). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 15, 2007.
May 26, 2012
Negated University of Michigan bar code (heavily pixellated).
From the back matter of The Child’s Christian Education: or, Spelling and Reading Made Easy, 16th ed., by the Reverend Mr. Fisher (1809). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized February 24, 2006.
May 25, 2012
Turning pages.
From p. 16-17 (?) of Select Stories for Children (1810). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2007.
May 25, 2012
Endpapers used for writing, blotting, and test scribbles. Also, clips of the digitization equipment.
From Poetry for Children, ed. J. Aikin (1805). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2007.
May 24, 2012
Embossed map made intangible by digitization.
From p. 96 of Light for the Blind: A History of the Origin and Success of Moon’s System of Reading (Embossed in 131 Languages) for the Blind by William Moon (1879). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 23, 2007.
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