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Handwritten labeling.
From p. 105 of New Complete Palmistry: Containing the Most Simple Presentations of the Science of Modern Palmistry, Including All of the Discoveries, Investigations and Researches of Centuries by Julius and Agnes Zancig (1905). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization.
An impossible place; plate left folded.
The frontispiece to Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua by John Russell Bartlett (1854). Original from Harvard University. Digitized December 20, 2007.
Frontispiece in high contrast.
From the front matter of The Human Drift by Jack London (1917). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 22, 2005.
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Employee’s many-ringed fingers.
From the front matter of New Orleans: The Place and the People by Grace Elizabeth Kin (1895). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized July 17, 2006.
Plate photographed through tissue.
From p. 550 of Manual of British Rural Sports, by Stonehenge (1856). Original from Oxford University. Digitized August 2, 2006.
Contemporary pink highlighter.
Throughout How to Argue and Win by Grenville Kleiser (1910). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized February 26, 2008.
Library statement contradicted by digitization and digital circulation.
From the front matter of Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy by Thomas D’Urfey (1719). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 11, 2007.
“An example of a snarky bit of marginalia with the inscription: ‘I’m Ty Cobb!’” Discovered by Michael Snyder of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Paratexts.
From How to Play Baseball: A Manual for Boys by John Joseph McGraw (1914). Original from the University of California. Digitized October 19, 2007.
Spilled ink/Rorschach test. Discovered by Kathryn Marguy of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Paratexts.
From p. 8-9 of Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte: From the French of M. Fauvelet de Bourrienne, trans. John S. Memes (1831). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 9, 2008.
Marginalia: “The anatomy of the universe is in his eyes.”
From p. 229 of Tales by Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. John H. Ingram (1884). Original from Princeton University. Digitized December 1, 2008.
