File:SB-03-055-source-3-native.png

Summary

Description

Fairmount. A river landscape framed by trees and foliage, with buildings and a bridge beyond the water, people in the foreground and the decorative Fairmount name below. The matrix matches the first identified part of the scrapbook collage. Original engraved details, signatures where present and the printed caption are retained. Individual artist and engraver roles and full names have not been securely established here.

From Philadelphia and Its Environs, and the Railroad Scenery of Pennsylvania, with 225 illustrations (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., [1875]), printed p.63. The printed title is undated. The Library of Congress copyright stamp, pencilled title-page date, printed copyright verso and catalogue record identify 1875. This is not the Centennial 1876 edition.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 55, first identified view. This witness does not establish the first publication or the physical source copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Source

Original colour camera scan provided by the Library of Congress, through Internet Archive, identifier philadelphiaitse00jb, ARK ark:/13960/t3nv9r31g, catalogue call number 9128414, LCCN 01010600. Shelfmark visible on the copyright verso: F158.5 .P53.

• Digitized book and catalogue record.
• Original camera JP2, leaf 93, printed p. 63.
• Scandata linking the leaf, printed folio, orientation and page crop.
• Original camera title page and printed copyright verso, 1875.

Thank you to the Library of Congress and Internet Archive for preserving this book and making the original colour camera files freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1832 × 2212 pixels, RGB. Original JP2: 4368 × 2912 pixels, 990129 bytes, SHA-256 a3d1c46185ddb1b10791c5033a8339a219f33e701cbe0a9d36e51aac62e57455.

Lossless 90-degree transpose clockwise, followed by the documented page crop (203, 419)–(2486, 3867) at native pixels. The illustration fragment was cropped within that page to (145, 310)–(2025, 2570). One bicubic alignment correction of 0.873658 degrees clockwise, measured from the printed straight page heading. Final trim (24, 24)–(1856, 2236); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. Natural paper colour, marks, show-through and engraved details are retained. No PDF rasterization, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving published in the United States in 1875, reproduced by a faithful library scan. The printed copyright verso is linked above. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.