Child-painted illustrations.
Throughout History of England, In Words of One Syllable by Helen W. Pierson (1884). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized March 2, 2007.
March 29, 2013
January 19, 2013
Minnie looks through a mirror, as if into the next page.
From p. 751 (?) of Our Young Folks: An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, v. 9 (1873). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 8, 2007.
October 16, 2012
Child-colored illustrations. Discovered by Emily Cottrell of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Paratexts.
Throughout The Land of Oz: A Sequel to The Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum, ills. John Rea Neill (1904). Original from the University of Virginia. Digitized July 28, 2008.
October 10, 2012
Pictorial endpapers populated by library artifacts.
From My Book House, v. 1, edited by Olive Beaupré Miller (1920). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
October 9, 2012
Illustrations composed of and trapped by linked table of contents.
From My Book House, v. 1, ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (1920). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
September 14, 2012
Meet me at the intersection of 247 Park Ave. and the most famous quote from The Wind in the Willows.
From p. 7 of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized March 7, 2008.
August 14, 2012
Interludes of blue paper.
Throughout Kate Greenaway’s Birthday Book for Children by Mrs. Sale Barker (1880). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 30, 2009.
July 20, 2012
Handwriting practice doodle.
From the back matter of National Elementary Speller by James Madison Watson (1863). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 5, 2007.
July 18, 2012
Paper ephemera used as bookmarks.
As found in The New American Second Reader by Epes Sargent and Amasa May (1871). Original from Princeton University. Digitized March 21, 2008.
July 18, 2012
Scribbles and rudimentary writing.
From p. 14-15 of The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language by Noah Webster (1816). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized February 9, 2007.
May 25, 2012
Child-colored plates.
Throughout Child’s Magazine, v. 2 (1816). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 15, 2007.
May 24, 2012
Child’s illustration.
From the back matter of Constance Latimer: or, The Blind Girl by Emma Catherine Embury (1838). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 14, 2008.
April 18, 2012
“This book just has a lot of awesome things going on. Someone was practicing their math on the front blank pages and maybe someone else was practicing their handwriting on the last blank pages. There are also doodles throughout and the book appears to have suffered some water damage and rough readers (torn/ripped pages).”
Submitted by Krista Dukes, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
Throughout Conspiracy of Catiline by Charles Anthon (1854). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 2, 2008.
March 25, 2012
Reader-painted plates.
Throughout A Complete View of Baltimore by Charles Varle (1833). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 11, 2006.
March 15, 2012
Scribbles.
From the front matter of The Child: Its Care, Diet, and Common Ills by Elisha Mather Sill (1913). Original from the University of California. Digitized September 5, 2007.
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