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Summary

Description

H. P. Blavatsky. Engraved portrait of H. P. Blavatsky within an ornamental rectangular frame. Face, hair, clothing, necklace, hatching, frame and small printed marks match the scrapbook. The complete printed frame and marks are retained, without assigning an unidentified engraver. On p. 137 the article credits the photograph from which the portrait was engraved to M. Sarony, of Broadway. This is a photographic-source credit, not an engraver’s signature; the initial is not expanded here. The album’s handwritten note about a priest is absent from the journal original and remains untouched in the album.

From The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, vol. 66, no. 3, March 1878, whole no. 471, printed p. 135, raw leaf 14 / PDF page 15. The physical opening page prints the volume, year, month and both issue numbers. The retained scandata has 52 leaves, leaf 1=p. 122 and leaf 14=p. 135; the opening masthead itself has no printed folio. The repository identifier uses a different expanded journal-title form. The printed title above is retained. The first publication and physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting are not established.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky’s Scrapbooks, volume 4, page 203, item 1. The album, its caption, handwriting, notes, transcription and previous sources are unchanged.

Source

Internet Archive, Serials in Microfilm, item sim_phrenological-journal-and-science-of-health_1878-03_66_3. Native processed grayscale microfilm JP2. Original camera TIFF and a natural-colour paper scan were not examined. The modest native-size gain over the earlier PDF render is not described as a large increase in detail.

• Exact digitized issue and reader.
• Complete native processed JP2 page used for this crop.
• Issue page-sequence metadata.

Thank you to Internet Archive and its Serials in Microfilm contributors for preserving this issue and making the primary scans freely accessible.

File and processing

PNG, 1519 × 1639 pixels, grayscale (L). Complete input: 2260 × 3384 pixels, 486526 bytes, SHA-256 73893c1d5d0e0d4b87d9fdac0788b628dc006dd4eefdee89d8095b75331a42bd.

Crop (325, 830)–(1880, 2505) in the complete page. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.146842 degrees counterclockwise, measured from the robust bottom of long straight printed frame rule. Final trim (18, 18)–(1537, 1657); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is retained. Original grayscale values, print and scan marks remain. No enlargement, colourization, tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the input is a JP2 access scan. A natural-paper-colour witness remains a future quality target.

Rights

Public-domain United States historical printed illustration published in 1878, faithfully reproduced in a microfilm access scan. No separate Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark for this exact item has been verified, and none is assigned here. The original printed illustration is distinguished from handwritten additions in the scrapbook.