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Throughout The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments (1704). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 3, 2009.
April 29, 2013
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.
April 2, 2013
Frontispiece (somehow!) merged with photograph of digitization equipment.
From the front matter of What Frances E. Willard Said by Frances Elizabeth Willard, ed. by Anna A. Gordon (1905). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
March 26, 2013
Scuffed leather covers photographed in high-contrast black and white.
From The History of Timur-Bec: Known by the Name of Tamerlain the Great, Emperor of the Moguls and Tartars: Being an Historical Journal of His Conquests in Asia and Europe, v. 1, by Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī (1723). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized July 3, 2008.
February 18, 2013
High contrast streaking in pictorial endpapers.
From The Star People by Gaylord Johnson (1921). Original from the University of California. Digitized December 10, 2007.
February 14, 2013
Digitally imposed gutter with transformative powers.
From Tables of Discount: or, Simple Interest by T B. Gumersall (1829). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 29, 2006.
February 13, 2013
Severe distortion.
From The ABC: or, Alphabetical Railway Guide, v. 88-99 (1861). Original from Oxford University. Digitized January 25, 2007.
February 11, 2013
Frontispiece in high contrast.
From the front matter of The Human Drift by Jack London (1917). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 22, 2005.
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February 4, 2013
Black-and-white glitched Cubism.
Throughout Cubists and Post-Impressionism by Arthur Jerome Eddy (1914). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 10, 2007.
January 30, 2013
Employee’s fingers autocorrected with mirrored text.
Throughout An Exact Narrative of Many Surprizing Matters of Fact Uncontestably Wrought By an Evil Spirit or Spirits, In the House of Master Jan Smagge (1709). Original from Oxford University. Digitized March 10, 2009.
January 27, 2013
Endpaper illustrations obscured by library artifacts and digital contrast.
From Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field (1904). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 19, 2005.
January 14, 2013
Digitally severed maps.
Throughout A Popular Atlas of Comparative Geography: Comprehending a Chronological Series of Maps of Europe and Other Lands, at Successive Periods, From the Fifth to the Later Half of the Nineteenth Century by William Hughes (1870). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized February 2, 2009.
January 12, 2013
Employee’s hand, three ways.
From the back matter of A Collection of Proverbs and Popular Sayings: Relating to the Seasons, the Weather, and Agricultural Pursuits (1846). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized October 11, 2011.
January 2, 2013
Frontispiece photographed through tissue.
From Wife No. 19, or: The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Exposé of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy by Ann Eliza Young (1875). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized June 17, 2008.
December 23, 2012
Arctic landscapes made more stark by high-contrast digitization.
See also.
Throughout My Life With the Eskimo by Vilhjálmur Stefánsson and Rudolph Martin Anderson (1913). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 26, 2008.
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