May 14, 2013
Tissue with foxing partially covers illustration.
From p. 314 of The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances by Clinton G. Gilroy (1845). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 14, 2005.

Tissue with foxing partially covers illustration.

From p. 314 of The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances by Clinton G. Gilroy (1845). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 14, 2005.

May 14, 2013
Dog-ear.
From p. 294 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1912). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 27, 2007.

Dog-ear.

From p. 294 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1912). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 27, 2007.

May 6, 2013

Impossible places and creatures (illustrations left folded).

Throughout A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, in 1758 by Rev. John Lindsay (1759). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 28, 2007.

May 5, 2013
Frontispiece left folded.
From Chūshingura: or, The Loyal Retainers of Akao by Izumo Takeda, Shōraku Miyoshi, and Senryū Namiki, translated by Jukichi Inouye (1894). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 2, 2009.

Frontispiece left folded.

From Chūshingura: or, The Loyal Retainers of Akao by Izumo Takeda, Shōraku Miyoshi, and Senryū Namiki, translated by Jukichi Inouye (1894). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 2, 2009.

May 2, 2013

Plates photographed through tissue.

From Vincent Van Gogh: A Biographical Study, v.2, by Julius Meier-Graefe (1922). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 22, 2009.

April 30, 2013
Frontispiece photographed through tissue.
From The Book of Legends Told Over Again by Horace Elisha Scudder (1889). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 29, 2007.

Frontispiece photographed through tissue.

From The Book of Legends Told Over Again by Horace Elisha Scudder (1889). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 29, 2007.

April 29, 2013

Wait, what?

Throughout The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments (1704). Original from Oxford University. Digitized February 3, 2009.

April 29, 2013
Map left folded.
From p. 297 of Iohn Huighen Van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages Into Ye Easte [and] West Indies: Deuided Into Foure Bookes by Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1598). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized February 10, 2009.

Map left folded.

From p. 297 of Iohn Huighen Van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages Into Ye Easte [and] West Indies: Deuided Into Foure Bookes by Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1598). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized February 10, 2009.

April 29, 2013
Employee holds plates closed.
Throughout The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1732 to the Year 1744), edited by John Martyn (1747). Original from Montserrat Abbey Library. Digitized February 9, 2011.

Employee holds plates closed.

Throughout The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1732 to the Year 1744), edited by John Martyn (1747). Original from Montserrat Abbey Library. Digitized February 9, 2011.

April 23, 2013
Plate photographed through image-stained tissue.
From the front matter of Life and Times of Red-Jacket: or Sa-go-ye-wat-ha by William Leete Stone (1841). Original from Harvard University. Digitized August 17, 2006.

Plate photographed through image-stained tissue.

From the front matter of Life and Times of Red-Jacket: or Sa-go-ye-wat-ha by William Leete Stone (1841). Original from Harvard University. Digitized August 17, 2006.

April 22, 2013
Plate photographed through tissue.
The frontispiece to Red Men and White by Owen Wister (1895). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

Plate photographed through tissue.

The frontispiece to Red Men and White by Owen Wister (1895). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

April 17, 2013
Plate left folded; photographed through tissue; thematic foxing. 
From p. 517 of On Megrim, Sick-headache and Some Allied Disorders by Edward Liveing (1873). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 4, 2006.

Plate left folded; photographed through tissue; thematic foxing. 

From p. 517 of On Megrim, Sick-headache and Some Allied Disorders by Edward Liveing (1873). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 4, 2006.

April 16, 2013

Plates photographed through tissue.

Throughout Boston of To-day: A Glance at Its History and Characteristics edited by Edwin Monroe Bacon (1892). Original from Harvard University. Digitized August 29, 2006.

April 16, 2013

Maps left folded.

Throughout The Crooked & Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston 1630-1822 by Annie Haven Thwing (1920). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).

April 13, 2013
Plate left folded; kitchen made smaller.
From p. 384 of The Wife’s Own Book of Cookery by Frederick Bishop (1856). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 31, 2006.

Plate left folded; kitchen made smaller.

From p. 384 of The Wife’s Own Book of Cookery by Frederick Bishop (1856). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 31, 2006.