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 31, 2012
Captured page-turning motion gives dynamism to the printed plate.
From p. 106 of With Hound and Terrier in the Field: Hunting Reminisces by Alys F. Serrell (1904). Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Digitized September 11, 2009.
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 29, 2012
Arithmetic.
From the back matter of American Historical Tales for Youth by Francis Lister Hawks (1801). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized June 12, 2007.
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 25, 2012
Endpapers used for writing, blotting, and test scribbles. Also, clips of the digitization equipment.
From Poetry for Children, ed. J. Aikin (1805). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2007.
May 24, 2012
Embossed map made intangible by digitization.
From p. 96 of Light for the Blind: A History of the Origin and Success of Moon’s System of Reading (Embossed in 131 Languages) for the Blind by William Moon (1879). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 23, 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
Caricature pasted into front endpapers.
From Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen by Sir Max Beerbohm (1896). Original from the University of California. Digitized October 14, 2011.
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