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Summary

Description

Schenck's Calendar for 1877, matching the floral calendar design in H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, page 3, item 1. The roses and daisies, leaves and stems, five advertising slips, calendar grid and printer's imprint correspond. The NYPL impression has a dark green-black background while the album shows blue. This is the same design in a different colour/printing condition, not the same physical exemplar; no colour alteration has been applied to make them agree. Individual flower artist not established.

The advertising slips identify Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son, Pulmonic Syrup, Seaweed Tonic and Mandrake Pills. Historical medical advertising language is retained as source content, not advice.

Source

The upper floral 1877 calendar on NYPL sheet 482903. The lower red 1878 calendar is a separate composition, excluded from this crop and used separately on HPB-SB-7-3.

The calendar footer reads McCALLA & STAVELY, PRS., 237–9 DOCK ST., PHILA. The lower-left advertising slip also prints COPYRIGHT 1876 BY L. PRANG & CO. The NYPL catalogue records L. Prang & Co.; that collection/publisher heading does not erase the distinct printed McCalla & Stavely credit. The calendar year is 1877; the catalogue Date Issued is 1876, and the printed copyright is 1876. Neither is asserted as a separately established first-publication date.

The New York Public Library, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection; Publisher's proofs of the publications of L. Prang & Co. Volume 1, shelf MEYK+. Item title: Calendars from 1877 and 1878, depicting flowers and angels. Image 482903, UUID 9fced8a0-c5c4-012f-9434-58d385a7bc34.

• NYPL catalogue, complete sheet and rights.
• Original delivered full-sheet JPEG.

Thank you to The New York Public Library for freely providing the colour proof, full-sheet scan and catalogue.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 1949 × 2357 pixels, from the received 3438 × 4703 full-sheet JPEG. A single 0.2996927° clockwise BICUBIC rotation on the full native canvas, without expansion, measured from the median of eighteen long central calendar rules. Final crop (36, 58)–(1985, 2415), right/bottom exclusive, surrounds the transformed original subject box (40, 70)–(1970, 2410). The complete upper calendar, all five slips, flowers, calendar year, copyright and printer's imprint remain. Torn edges, age marks and natural print/paper colours are preserved. Support-mask minimum 255 over the final crop; no exterior fill wedges. Final pixels independently reproduced from the recorded transform.

No enlargement, tonal adjustment, colourization, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. The original JPEG remains unchanged, SHA-256 2b3c4f31a99356540cfe354d8afe089ec48540b67f268121de180a9ea6c2f5d3. This is a delivered scan derivative; no TIFF/camera master was received or claimed.

Rights

The current exact NYPL item is labelled Free to use without restriction, verified 4 November 2026. NYPL believes it is public domain under United States law and has not determined its status under other countries' laws. No separate Creative Commons licence is asserted. Requested source credit: From The New York Public Library. Changes: fine rotation and cropping.