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Summary

Description

Tip-Toed Figures Reach the Catch. Benjamin F. Taylor, Songs of Yesterday (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company), printed p.127, illustrating The Old School-House. This copy is catalogued as 1876; the printed title page is undated. The repository's copyright-evidence metadata records a stated copyright date of 1875. No claim of first publication is made.

The child reaching the door catch, basket, two approaching children, face in the window and woodwork match the scrapbook engraving. This copy's caption contains only Tip-Toed Figures Reach the Catch; the scrapbook also includes Tiny Fingers Click the Latch. Taylor is the author of the text; the artist and engraver have not been securely identified here. This witness does not identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook. Compared with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 79, item 2.

Source

Colour scan provided by University of California Libraries, made available through Internet Archive. Internet Archive / California Digital Library identifier songsyesterday00taylrich; ARK ark:/13960/t3cz3388h; catalogue call number 33876562; LCCN 12039299. The public page image n120 visibly carries printed folio 127.

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

Thank you to University of California Libraries and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making its scan freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1726 × 1386 pixels, RGB. The retained complete JPEG page is 2768 × 4068 pixels, 892429 bytes, SHA-256 3ec6ec6393151daed2328dbb38fbdbfcb3b7633a3d137588bde31dfd9198353b.

The engraving and original printed caption were cropped from (510, 1640)–(2260, 3050), aligned by 0.681437 degrees counterclockwise using one bicubic resampling, then trimmed to (12, 12)–(1738, 1398). 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.