Bar code over marbled paper.
From the front matter of A Year on the Punjab Frontier, v. 1, by Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (1851). Original from the University of Lausanne. Digitized November 19, 2008.
May 13, 2013
May 1, 2013
Bookmark.
From p. 200-01 of Quatre Traictez Excellents by Francisco Arias and Pillehotte (1609). Original from the Lyon Public Library. Digitized October 24, 2011.
April 29, 2013
None of the above.
From the front matter of A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson (1775). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized June 11, 2007.
April 23, 2013
Newspaper clippings.
Throughout Some Improvements to the Art of Teaching, Especially in the First Grounding of a Young Scholar in Grammar Learning by William Walker (1730). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 28, 2006.
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.
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.
March 24, 2013
Newspaper clipping pasted in.
From the front matter of The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing of Downingville: Away Down East in the State of Maine by Seba Smith (1834). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 28, 2007.
January 30, 2013
Newspaper clipping about a girl named Armistice Day Guiseppina Olympia Bredice.
From the front matter of How to Name Baby Without Handicapping it for Life: A Practical Guide for Parents and All Others Interested In “Better Naming” by Alexander McQueen (1922). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 6, 2009.
January 28, 2013
“The volume has done second service as a scrapbook, not mentioned in metadata.” Submitted by asfaltics.
Check out some of the other pasted-in articles: “The Grasshopper Plague,” “An Elephant on a Steamboat,” “Where Do These Sponges Go?” “Remains of a Mastodon,” “Hydrophobia,” “A Trout Fish Living in a Well Twenty-Five Years,” “The Little Monster in Your Sugar,” and “Shower of Worms.”
Throughout A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, v. 2 By Oliver Goldsmith (1855). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 4, 2009.
January 2, 2013
The price list, mailed upon application. Someone had their eye on a 1794 Laurentius Storioni.
From the front matter of Masterpieces of the Great Violin Makers by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company (1917). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
December 13, 2012
Fogg Museum ephemera (with doodle) used as bookmark.
From p. 465 of The Principles of Money and Banking, v. 2, by Charles Arthur Conant (1905). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 7, 2005.
November 10, 2012
Finding poetry in the Thames: Artist Krissy Wilson talks to Zoë Large about how mudlarking has inspired her to create public mosaic poems, and her explorations of London’s murky river foreshore
Check out one of my forthcoming projects and follow Detritus: Poems from the Thames Foreshore! —Krissy
November 6, 2012
Newspaper clipping with review of the book (and image on verso).
From the back matter of Voting in the Field: A Forgotten Chapter of the Civil War by Josiah Henry Benton (1915). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized September 19, 2006.
October 15, 2012
Employee holds in paper ephemera (with original price).
From the front matter of A New Translation of Ovid’s Epistles into English Prose by Ovid, trans. unknown (1657). Original from Princeton University. Digitized August 18, 2009.
October 8, 2012
Manuscript notes galore.
From the front matter of London and Middlesex Illustrated by John Warburton (1749). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 5, 2009.
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