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Summary

Description

Governor's Mansion, Austin. Homer S. Thrall, A Pictorial History of Texas, from the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879, fifth edition, carefully revised (St. Louis: N. D. Thompson & Co., 1879), an unnumbered plate. The scan preserves a Library of Congress deposit stamp dated 1880; that later stamp is not the publication date.

The mansion, columns, fence, two pedestrians, horse-drawn carriage and arched sky match the scrapbook engraving. The captions differ slightly: the scrapbook has The Governor's Mansion—Austin, while this book has Governor's Mansion. Austin. This 1879 witness is later than the stated 1875–1878 range of scrapbook volume 3. It documents reuse of the same engraving; it does not establish the first publication or the physical source of the scrapbook cutting. Compared with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 75, item 2.

Source

Colour scan provided by Library of Congress, made available through Internet Archive. Internet Archive identifier pictorialhistory01thra; ARK ark:/13960/t2g742553; catalogue call number 8659843; LCCN 01006596. The selected public page image is n718. The plate itself has no printed folio; an earlier research card indexed it as p.713.

• Digitized book and catalogue record.
• Complete colour page used for this crop.

Thank you to Library of Congress and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making its scan freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1051 × 1216 pixels, RGB. The retained complete JPEG page is 1954 × 3310 pixels, 323113 bytes, SHA-256 65e554b1f285a72906b67874b372c9a89be9e3ea1830c7cbae2e47330381eb27.

The engraving and original printed caption were cropped from (285, 1080)–(1360, 2320), aligned by 0.597179 degrees counterclockwise using one bicubic resampling, then trimmed to (12, 12)–(1063, 1228). Right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete page remains linked above. Natural paper colour, marks and show-through are retained. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the source page itself is JPEG.

Rights

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