Arguments in the margin.
Throughout Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley (1922). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 27, 2006.
March 8, 2013
March 5, 2013
Writing practice.
From the endpapers of The Pilgrim’s Progress: From This World to That Which is to Come by John Bunyan (1758). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 1, 2006.
September 14, 2012
A collage of use: arithmetic, writing, doodling, barcode, card folder, clip of digitization equipment.
From the back matter of The Rudiments of Navigation by Mungo Murray (1760). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 16, 2006.
July 18, 2012
Scribbles and rudimentary writing.
From p. 14-15 of The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language by Noah Webster (1816). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized February 9, 2007.
July 17, 2012
A Google Books employee’s recursive message.
Throughout Another Fairy Reader by James Baldwin (1907). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
June 22, 2012
A neon pocket.
From the back matter of Foundation to Flute Playing: An Elementary Method, by Ernest Frederick Wagner (1918). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
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
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
Writing autolinked with items from the table of contents (“My Dear Lame / It is pleasure— This / is the letter ??? / Pinkard written to / Miss Lambe”).
From p. xii of Poetry for Children, ed. J. Aikin (1805). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2007.
May 14, 2012
A stack of items.
The title page to Practical Poultry Culture, iss. 150-155, by R. W. Davison (1898). Original from Cornell University. Digitized March 19, 2009.
April 19, 2012
I’m pretty sure Herbert Allan Gilman owned this book.
From the title page to A Country Kid: A Rural Merry Comedy in Three Acts by Nesbit Stone Scoville (1900). Original from Harvard University. Digitized January 22, 2008.
April 18, 2012
“As suggested by the title page, either an amateur stage producer or a harsh critic decided that Carroll’s text would read better if three very specific acts were omitted. … [This] version of Alice in Wonderland is not unlike a personalized rewrite, perhaps even an interesting new take on the classic story, should we consider the meaningful consequences of the reader’s cuts and edits.”
Submitted by C. T. Douglas, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
Throughout Alice in Wonderland in Five Acts by Lewis Carroll (adapted, 1897). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 14, 2006.
April 18, 2012
“This book just has a lot of awesome things going on. Someone was practicing their math on the front blank pages and maybe someone else was practicing their handwriting on the last blank pages. There are also doodles throughout and the book appears to have suffered some water damage and rough readers (torn/ripped pages).”
Submitted by Krista Dukes, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
Throughout Conspiracy of Catiline by Charles Anthon (1854). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 2, 2008.
![Chalk or crayon mark on rear cover.
From Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys, by Henry Marion Howe (1903). [Here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvv85mdfmH1qixa76o1_400.png)
![Rear cover, with pencil scrawl.
From Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet, by Carlo Collodi (1914). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltyfq7TaCo1qixa76o1_400.png)
