Torn paper poem.
From the back matter of A Princess of Java: A Tale of the Far East by Sarah Jane Higginson (1887). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 25, 2008.
May 5, 2013
April 29, 2013
![Tear.
From p. 10 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.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/114c183dfbc8fa73e3031a710e794ee7/tumblr_mm0rvb2EMd1qixa76o1_1280.png)
Tear.
From p. 10 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 24, 2013
Torn circulation slip.
From the back matter of The Devotional Life of the Sunday School Teacher by James Russell Miller (1913). Original from Princeton University. Digitized March 19, 2008.
April 7, 2013
Tears and tape.
From p. 87-91 of Peter and Polly in Spring by Rose Lucia (1915). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
March 24, 2013
Plate photographed through (ripped) tissue.
From p. 516 of Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, v. 1, ed. by William Richard Cutter and William Frederick Adams (1910). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 20, 2006.
March 23, 2013
Torn library artifact.
From the front matter of Popular Romances of the West of England: or, The Drolls, Traditions and Superstitions of Old Cornwall, v. 2, by Robert Hunt (1865). Original from Harvard University. Digitized November 21, 2005.
March 18, 2013
Torn directory left folded.
From p. 138 of Miller’s New York As It Is: or, Stranger’s Guide-book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn and Adjacent Places, Comprising Notices of Every Object of Interest to Strangers by James Miller (1867). Original from the University of California. Digitized December 6, 2007.
February 8, 2013
Tear interrupts “Sleep.”
From p. 266 of The Longfellow Birthday-Book by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, arranged by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1881). Original from Princeton University. Digitized November 26, 2008.
January 5, 2013
Torn and yellowed (in an atmospheric way).
From p. 56 of Gleason’s Horse Book: The Only Authorized Work by America’s King of Horse Tamers, Comprising History, Breeding, Training, Breaking, Buying, Feeding, Grooming, Shoeing, Doctoring, Telling Age, and General Care of the Horse by Oscar Rudolph Gleason (1832). Original from the University of California. Digitized December 1, 2007.
January 4, 2013
Page torn, perhaps by Google Books employee. The photograph of p. 307 is of a whole page, but after the leaf is turned, there is a tear in the photograph of p. 308.
From The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods by Andrew Lincoln Winton and Josef Moeller (1906). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 7, 2007.
January 2, 2013
Ripped, taped, and ripped again.
From p. 148 of Anna Karenina by Lyof N. Tolstoï, trans. by Nathan Haskell Dole (1899). Original from Harvard University. Digitized July 18, 2008.
January 2, 2013
The cloud of paper that remained after a circulation slip was torn out.
From the back matter of Spencer-Meade Cane Sugar Handbook (1916). Original from the University of California. Digitized September 23, 2010.
December 7, 2012
Employee holds together a torn page: “Already! A living manicule.” Submitted by John McVey (asfaltics).
From p. 521 of A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction and Design of Concrete and Reinforced Concrete, 2nd ed., by Fredrick W. Taylor and Sanford E. Thompson. Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Digitized January 7, 2008.
December 1, 2012
Bookplate palimpsest.
From the back matter of All Aboard: or, Life On the Lake by Oliver Optic (1856). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 14, 2008.
December 1, 2012
Torn page corners.
From Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, v. 4, (April 1913). Original from Princeton University. Digitized August 31, 2011.
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