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Summary

Description

There are some notable nooks and bluffs along the bayou. Two people in a small boat on Buffalo Bayou, near Houston, Texas, beneath overhanging trees. The figures, boat, oars, branching trunks, bank, reflections and engraved hatching match the scrapbook cutting. The book's complete rounded upper composition and printed caption are retained; the scrapbook covers the upper part with a separate blue ornamental strip. The blue strip and handwritten album additions are not part of this source image.

Edward King, The Great South: A Record of Journeys (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1875), chapter X, Buffalo Bayou—A Norther, printed p.112. The visible running head and surrounding text identify Buffalo Bayou and Houston. The book's publication date is 1875; the copyright verso gives 1874, Scribner & Co. The volume-wide credit to original sketches by J. Wells Champney does not establish the individual artist or engraver of this image. No individual attribution is made here.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 52, item 1. This is a matching book witness; the first appearance and the physical source copy of the scrapbook cutting have not been established.

Source

Library of Congress, through Internet Archive, identifier greatsouthrecord01king, ARK ark:/13960/t9087300x, catalogue call number 10064268, LCCN rc 01002442. Original colour camera JP2, raw leaf 122; the catalogue records a Canon 5D camera. This file uses the camera image, not a PDF rendering or the separate UNC access JPEG.

• Complete page, printed p. 112.
• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Original camera JP2 used for this file.
• Printed title page, dated 1875.
• Additional research transcription and page illustrations: Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina.

Thank you to the Library of Congress and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and freely providing its original colour camera files, and to the University of North Carolina for its freely accessible research edition.

File and processing

PNG, 1545 × 2150 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Complete original JP2: 4368 × 2912 pixels, 1625987 bytes, SHA-256 fae197439b151c4a47137dd4769e2a2c02b87e7c044520a9849346e5965ff7b3.

Lossless 90-degree counterclockwise transpose to a 2912 × 4368 upright image. Native context crop (120, 900)–(1900, 3400), followed by one bicubic alignment correction of 1.260316 degrees clockwise, measured from 54 of 55 connected glyph components of the printed caption. Final trim (85, 185)–(1630, 2335); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. The full composition, engraved borders, caption and small printed marks are retained. No added canvas is included. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the original file remains unchanged.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration published in the United States in 1875, reproduced by a faithful library scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.