Folded tissue obscures image.
From p. 84 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 23, 2012
May 4, 2012
Invented topographies (plates left folded through digitization).
Throughout A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean: Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty … in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780, v. 2, by James Cook, Charles Clerke, John Gore, and James King (1784). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized January 7, 2009.
May 2, 2012
Plates left folded through digitization.
Throughout Nature Displayed in the Heavens and On the Earth by Simeon Shaw (1823). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 11, 2008.
May 1, 2012
Invented topographies (plates left folded through digitization).
Throughout A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, 1795-1798 by William Robert Broughton (1804). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 24, 2008.
April 30, 2012
Folded plate obscures text.
From p. 14 of Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the North-East of Siberia, the Frozen Ocean, and the North-East Sea, v.1, by Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev and Sir Richard Phillips (1806). Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Digitized October 15, 2007.
April 30, 2012
Plate left folded through digitization, excluding key information about the conflict (?) at hand.
The frontispiece to Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, on Discovery by John Rickman (1781). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 27, 2007.
April 16, 2012
“A picture of bullet impact diagrams that has been crinkled up.”
Submitted by Sam Manno, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From the back matter of Rifles and Rifle Practice: An Elementary Treatise Upon the Theory of Rifle Firing, Explaining the Causes of Inaccuracy of Fire and the Manner of Correcting It by Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox (1859). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 16, 2007.
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).
April 12, 2012
“By capturing a folded page in the image above, Google unintentionally draws focus towards the material, tactile nature of print and the literary consequences of traversing text through this medium. The visual effect of planets sliced in half is also bizarrely captivating.”
Submitted by Chris Hawley, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From p. 240 of The New American Grammar of the Elements of Astronomy by James Ryan (1827). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 6, 2007.
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.
April 6, 2012
“‘Tis not quite the solar system.”
Submitted by mercadoc of John Crooks’s UC Irvine course Digital Media: Current Directions.
From the back matter of British Encyclopedia by William Nicholson (1819). Original from Harvard University. Digitized Jan 31, 2008.
March 30, 2012
Obscured note.
From A Catalogue of the Library of the Athenæum, Liverpool by George Burrell (1820). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 8, 2007.
March 25, 2012
Plate left folded through digitization, and photographed with neon colors. Submitted by pwclose.
From p. 370 of The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, v. 69, pt. 1 (1799). Original from Princeton University. Digitized on November 16 2009.
March 21, 2012
Printed plate left folded through digitization.
The frontispiece to A Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament by John Parkhurst (1798). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized September 22, 2006.
March 11, 2012
Turning page.
From p. 124 (?) of The Diseases of Women with Child by François Mauriceau and Hugh Chamberlen (1727). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized November 19, 2009.
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