Plates photographed with neon moiré.
Throughout Cross Country With Horse and Hound by Frank Sherman Peer (1902). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 1, 2008.
May 31, 2012
May 31, 2012
Plate photographed through protective tissue.
The frontispiece to A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1810). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 8, 2006.
May 30, 2012
Text visible through the page (the subject of the girl’s gaze).
Also, an amazing plate: “The mother stated that when three months pregnant with the child she was much terrified by a monkey attached to a street organ, which jumped on her back as she was passing by.”
From p.82 of The Human Hair: Its Structure, Growth, Diseases, and Their Treatment by Hermann Beigel (1869). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 23, 2007.
May 29, 2012
Inscription of ownership - “John Amory.”
From the back matter of The Child’s Instructor by John Ely (1818). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized August 24, 2006.
May 29, 2012
An employee’s finger and ring distorted by movement.
From p. li (?) 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 26, 2012
Turning pages.
From p. 130-133 (?) of Essays on the Duty of Parents and Children by Cyrus Comstock (1810). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 15, 2007.
May 26, 2012
Negated University of Michigan bar code (heavily pixellated).
From the back matter of The Child’s Christian Education: or, Spelling and Reading Made Easy, 16th ed., by the Reverend Mr. Fisher (1809). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized February 24, 2006.
May 25, 2012
Turning pages.
From p. 16-17 (?) of Select Stories for Children (1810). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2007.
May 24, 2012
Portrait of a blind man photographed through a film of tissue.
The frontispiece to Autobiography of a Blind Minister by Timothy Woodbridge (1856). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 30, 2009.
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.
May 23, 2012
“My curiosity leads me to wonder what the words underneath the slip say. This slip creates a traceable history of the book, showing when it was checked out and returned from the University of California Medical School Library. I also appreciate the shift from hand-written dates to stamps back to hand-written again for the last recorded return date. What happened before the first recorded date? What happened after the last recorded date? This slip also lacks any names…what were the names of the people that checked out the book on those dates? Why did they choose this book, and what did they learn from it?”
Submitted by Catherine Hanson, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From the back matter of A Compend of Equine Anatomy and Physiology by William Rice Ballou (1907). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 13, 2008.
May 23, 2012
“Transposed.” Submitted by Nelly Stavro, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From p. 372 of Archaeologia Americana, v. 1 (1820). Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Digitized June 9, 2010.
May 23, 2012
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 22, 2012
Digitally severed maps.
Throughout N. W. Ayers & Son’s American Newspaper Annual and Directory (1920). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include University of Illinois library artifacts).
May 21, 2012
Library artifacts in selective black-and-white and greyscale.
From the back matter of A Manual for Use at Funerals by Charles Jason Staples and Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1903). Original from Harvard University. Digitized December 15, 2007.
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