May 14, 2013

Fore-edge and employee’s (distorted) hand.

From Psalmi Finn (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized December 21, 2010.

May 13, 2013

Earthquake!

Throughout A Genuine Account of Earthquakes, Especially that at Oxford, in the Year 1695; and of Another Terrible One at Port-Royal, in Jamaica, in the Year 1692 (1750). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 11, 2009.

April 29, 2013

Distortion of employee’s finger and ring.

From the back matter of Libanii Sophistae Graeci (1522). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized August 24, 2012.

April 29, 2013
“Ghostwrist.” Submitted by asfaltics.
From p. 686 of Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, v. 59 (1921). Original from the University of Chicago. Digitized April 13, 2012.

“Ghostwrist.” Submitted by asfaltics.

From p. 686 of Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, v. 59 (1921). Original from the University of Chicago. Digitized April 13, 2012.

April 23, 2013
Motion, distortion, correction, hand of employee.
From p. 306-308 (?) of British Education: or, The Source of the Disorders of Great Britain by Thomas Sheridan (1756). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized April 26, 2006.

Motion, distortion, correction, hand of employee.

From p. 306-308 (?) of British Education: or, The Source of the Disorders of Great Britain by Thomas Sheridan (1756). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized April 26, 2006.

April 17, 2013

Neon; uncropped; distortion.

Throughout A Charitable Proposal for Relieving the Sick and Needy, and Other Distressed Persons (1720). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 24, 2009.

April 10, 2013
Don’t touch that! An employee’s hands over an illustration of the Portuguese man o’ war. 
From p. 8 of Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australia by George Bennett (1860). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2006.

Don’t touch that! An employee’s hands over an illustration of the Portuguese man o’ war

From p. 8 of Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australia by George Bennett (1860). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2006.

April 7, 2013
Transformative gutter (and employee’s ringed fingers).
From the front matter of Regulations for the Army of the United States (1857). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

Transformative gutter (and employee’s ringed fingers).

From the front matter of Regulations for the Army of the United States (1857). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

April 7, 2013
Employee holds in paper ephemera.
From the front matter of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized January 20, 2010.

Employee holds in paper ephemera.

From the front matter of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized January 20, 2010.

April 2, 2013
Employee holds paper ephemera over portrait photographed through tissue.
The frontispiece to Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself by Frances Power Cobbe (1904). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 22, 2007.

Employee holds paper ephemera over portrait photographed through tissue.

The frontispiece to Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself by Frances Power Cobbe (1904). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 22, 2007.

April 1, 2013
Tissue paper cone.
From p. 32 of My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

Tissue paper cone.

From p. 32 of My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

March 27, 2013

Glitched hands.

From the front and back matter of The Works: Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse by Thomas Brown and James Drake (1730). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized September 27, 2011.

March 23, 2013
The transformative gutter.
From the back matter of A Homoeopathic Materia Medica On a New and Original Plan: A Sample Fascicle Containing the Arsenic Group by Marvin W. Van Denburg (1894). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 8, 2007.

The transformative gutter.

From the back matter of A Homoeopathic Materia Medica On a New and Original Plan: A Sample Fascicle Containing the Arsenic Group by Marvin W. Van Denburg (1894). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 8, 2007.

March 19, 2013
Page turning. Submitted by Laura Estill. 
From p. 550-553 of Locorum Communium Tituli et Ordines Centum Quinquaginta, ad Aeriem Praedicamentorum Decem Descripti by John Foxe (1557). Original from Austrian National Library. Digitized January 3 2012.

Page turning. Submitted by Laura Estill

From p. 550-553 of Locorum Communium Tituli et Ordines Centum Quinquaginta, ad Aeriem Praedicamentorum Decem Descripti by John Foxe (1557). Original from Austrian National Library. Digitized January 3 2012.

March 19, 2013
Employee holds folded plate closed. 
The frontispiece to A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India by Lieut. Colon Forrest (1824). Original from Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 22, 2011.

Employee holds folded plate closed. 

The frontispiece to A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India by Lieut. Colon Forrest (1824). Original from Lyon Public Library. Digitized August 22, 2011.