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Summary

Description

Fairmount. Historical engraving showing a view across the river towards the Fairmount waterworks, within a circular ornamental frame, from Philadelphia and Its Environs, and the Railroad Scenery of Pennsylvania, with 225 illustrations (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., [1875]), printed p. 63. The title page is undated in print; its pencilled date, the Library of Congress copyright stamp and the printed copyright verso identify 1875. The artist and engraver have not been securely identified here; the engraved signatures are preserved.

The full composition, engraving details and printed lettering match H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 55, item 1. This witness does not establish the first-ever appearance of the drawing or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook.

Source

Colour scan provided by the Library of Congress, digitized book identifier philadelphiaitse00jb. Shelfmark visible on the copyright verso: F158.5 .P53.

• Complete LOC PDF, printed p.63, PDF page93. The retained PDF has 212 pages, 70074608 bytes, SHA-256 66bc0999ca3f961a15d1c39ed75a5eef9454a28859c11d19b8656882c922f095.
• Title page, PDF page29; printed copyright1875 is PDF page30.

Thank you to the Library of Congress for preserving this book and making its colour scan freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 3570 × 4020 pixels, RGB. The retained complete colour JPEG page is 4413 × 6667 pixels, 2880901 bytes, SHA-256 07bb6d9d2be6fb91e133581c6ae50ab07189ed6f42f53aa3102639cd103447a3.

The complete engraving was cropped from page coordinates(280, 850)–(3920, 4940). Alignment was checked against the straight printed heading on the source page; a rotation of0.577330 degrees clockwise was applied with one bicubic resampling. The naturally curved lettering within the ornamental base is retained. The crop was trimmed to(35, 35)–(3605, 4055). Right and bottom bounds are exclusive. A source-area mask confirms that every output pixel lies within the source image; no added canvas is included. The page header and adjacent prose remain available in the complete source PDF. Natural paper colour, marks and show-through are retained. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving published in the United States in1875, reproduced by a faithful library scan. The printed copyright page is linked above. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to the Library of Congress for this object.