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
May 29, 2012
“Musical notation cropped in such a way that no musical notes remain visible. In addition, this entire book has been digitized in reverse page order, beginning with 357 and proceeding backwards to the beginning to the book. Also, text recognition software incorrectly believes this book to be in Arabic, for some reason.”
Submitted by Gregory Bloch.
From The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music: Being a Selection of the Most Approved Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Anthems, Sentences, Chants, &c. : Together with Many Beautiful Extracts from the Works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Other Eminent Composers, Harmonized for Three and Four Voices, with a Figured Base for the Organ and Piano Forte (1830). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 7, 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 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 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
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 18, 2012
Plate photographed through tissue.
The frontispiece to June on the Miami: An Idyl by William Henry Venable (1912). Original from Harvard University. Digitized February 24, 2009.
May 14, 2012
Plates photographed through protective tissue and heavily pixellated.
Throughout The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvinalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, trans. Dryden, et. al. (1735). Original from Oxford University. Digitized October 11, 2007.
May 14, 2012
Text obscured to a vertical string of characters.
From various pages of The Gary Public Schools: Science Teaching by Otis W. Caldwell (1920). Original from the University of California. Digitized October 12, 2007.
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 2, 2012
Disintegrated text (reversed, through tissue?).
From p. 196 of Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Inquiries into Very Many Received Tenants, and Commonly Presumed Truths by Sir Thomas Browne (1658). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized October 10, 2005.
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
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.
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