May 22, 2012

Digitally severed maps.

Throughout N. W. Ayers & Son’s American Newspaper Annual and Directory (1920). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include University of Illinois library artifacts).

April 14, 2012
Portions of a map crossing the digital gutter. 
Submitted by Nelly Stavro, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From p. 344-5 of The History of Herodotus, v. I, by Herodotus (1737).

Portions of a map crossing the digital gutter. 

Submitted by Nelly Stavro, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.

From p. 344-5 of The History of Herodotus, v. I, by Herodotus (1737).

April 6, 2012
“‘Den of Eden’ is all this folded map lets us see. A map, intended to point direction, is rendered useless in this medium.”
Submitted by Danny Ennis, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From page 229 of The City of Cincinnati: A Summary of Its Attractions, Advantages, Institutions and Internal Improvements by George E. Stevens (1869). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized February 8, 2008. 

“‘Den of Eden’ is all this folded map lets us see. A map, intended to point direction, is rendered useless in this medium.”

Submitted by Danny Ennis, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.

From page 229 of The City of Cincinnati: A Summary of Its Attractions, Advantages, Institutions and Internal Improvements by George E. Stevens (1869). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized February 8, 2008. 

February 12, 2012

Address written into front endpapers matched with current address on Google Maps.

From the front matter of The Science and Practice of Cheese-Making by Lucius Lincoln Van Slyke and Charles Albert Publow (1909). (Map)

February 9, 2012
Digitally severed map of Australia.
From p. 1090 (?) of The Gallery of Geography, v.2, by Thomas Millner (1872). 

Digitally severed map of Australia.

From p. 1090 (?) of The Gallery of Geography, v.2, by Thomas Millner (1872). 

February 7, 2012

Digitally severed maps, half in color and half in black and white. See also.

From various pages of 1865 to the Present: A United States History for High Schools by Boyd C. Shafer, et. al. (1965). 

January 28, 2012

The impossible place created by leaving a map folded through digitization.

From the back matter of Chinese Turkestan, With Caravan and Rifle by Percy William Palmer Church (1901). 

January 11, 2012
NYC without NYC: map left folded through digitization.
From p. 192 (?) of New York As It Is, ed. Edwin Williams (1833).

NYC without NYC: map left folded through digitization.

From p. 192 (?) of New York As It Is, ed. Edwin Williams (1833).

December 30, 2011
Map left folded through digitization.
The frontispiece to Semi-Centennial History of West Virginia by James Morton Callahan (1913). 

Map left folded through digitization.

The frontispiece to Semi-Centennial History of West Virginia by James Morton Callahan (1913). 

December 15, 2011

Maps left folded through digitization.

From various pages of Practical Guide to the English Lake District, by Henry Irwin Jenkinson (1881). 

December 1, 2011
Map left folded through digitization.
From the front matter of Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas, by William Kennedy (1841). [Here]

Map left folded through digitization.

From the front matter of Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas, by William Kennedy (1841). [Here]

November 30, 2011

Maps left folded through digitization. (More like this)

From various pages of The Post Office Directory of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire (1869). [Here]

November 15, 2011

Printed plate left folded through digitization.

From p. 148 of A History of Ancient Geography among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Roman Empire, v. 2, by E. H. Bunbury (1879). [Here]

Submitted to The Art of Google Books by asfaltics.

November 14, 2011

“Map of the British Isles According to Ptolemy” left folded through digitization.

Facing p. 584 of A History of Ancient Geography among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Roman Empire, v. 2, by E. H. Bunbury (1879). [Here]

Submitted to The Art of Google Books by asfaltics.

October 31, 2011
Map left folded through digitization.
From the front matter of Chicago and the Great Conflagration, by Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin (1871). [Here]

Map left folded through digitization.

From the front matter of Chicago and the Great Conflagration, by Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin (1871). [Here]