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Summary

Description

Editors of Leading Religious Newspapers. Six historical portraits from The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, vol. 56 (old series), no. 5, whole no. 413, May 1873, printed p. 301. Top row: J. Cotton Smith, H. W. Bellows and A. S. Patton. Bottom row: W. J. R. Taylor, Isaac T. Hecker and Daniel Curry. The artist and engraver have not been established.

The portraits, ornamental frames and printed names match the upper group in H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 35, item 1. The scrapbook places the group from p. 301 above that from p. 300. This file follows that album order; it is not a reconstruction of the scrapbook collage. This witness does not establish the first-ever appearance of the portraits or identify the particular physical copy used for the scrapbook.

Source

The Wellcome Library copy digitized by the Internet Archive, item s5967id1397956, ARK ark:/13960/t9b684k93, serial identifier b31515915. A more specific physical-copy shelfmark is not established here.

• Internet Archive / Wellcome item record.
• Complete source page, IA leaf 309, printed p. 301.
• Exact original camera JPEG 2000 file, 6000 × 4000 pixels, RGB, 2289624 bytes, SHA-256 772fb4326b3488912bfc0945d87e248c1fdac2fe996edb17e2bdfdf5d51e5255.
• Bound-volume title page: vol. LVI, January–June 1873, New York: Samuel R. Wells, 389 Broadway.
• May issue opening, vol. LVI, no. 5, whole no. 413. The issue and printed headers were checked visually. The catalogue's generic series date of 1870 is not used as the date of these portraits.

Thank you to the Wellcome Library and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making the colour scans freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 2620 × 2880 pixels, RGB. A faithful crop of the complete six-portrait panel, including the ornamental frames and all printed names. The original camera file was oriented 90 degrees clockwise exact transpose, then cropped in upright coordinates (280, 1060)–(2960, 4000), aligned 1.175630 degrees counterclockwise with one bicubic resampling, and trimmed to (30, 30)–(2650, 2910). Right and bottom bounds are exclusive. A source-area mask confirms that all output pixels lie within the source image. The resulting caption baseline is level within 0.02 degrees. The source colour profile is retained if present; no colour conversion is applied.

Natural paper colour, marks and show-through are retained. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. The page header and adjacent prose are excluded and remain available on the complete source page.

Rights

Public-domain historical engravings published in New York in 1873. The item metadata checked on 2 November 2026 identifies Wellcome Library as contributor and sponsor and supplies the Public Domain Mark 1.0. PDM is a public-domain status mark, not a Creative Commons attribution licence. The scan providers are credited above.