File:SB-07-057-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Mission Ridge, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. A view of Mission Ridge near Chattanooga, Tennessee. The foreground rocks and plants, trees on both sides, irregular tall central trunks, wooded hills, birds and clouds match the scrapbook’s composition. The full picture, surrounding rule, small printed marks and caption Mission Ridge, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. [Page 528.] are retained. Page 528 in that caption is an internal cross-reference; this illustration occurs on page 527 in the book’s page sequence. No individual artist or engraver is assigned from the volume-wide Champney credit or unidentified marks.

From Edward King, The Great South: A Record of Journeys (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1875), chapter LIX, page 527 in the book sequence. The title page directly prints the author, publisher, place and 1875. This chapter-opening page has no printed folio; the exact source scandata maps raw camera leaf 539 to page 527. The bracketed Page 528 in the illustration caption is a separate internal cross-reference. The title’s credit to original sketches by J. Wells Champney applies to the volume as a whole and does not establish the individual artist of this image.

The same composition is recorded earlier in Southern Mountain Rambles, Scribner’s Monthly, May 1874, p. 7, captioned simply Mission Ridge, as in the scrapbook. This file uses the natural-colour 1875 book witness with its longer caption. Neither the book witness nor the earlier located journal witness proves the physical source copy of the scrapbook cutting or the very first appearance of the image. The first appearance in all editions and the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting are not established.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky’s Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 57, item 1. Album images, captions, articles, handwriting, author parameters, notes, metadata, footnotes and prior sources remain unchanged.

Source

Library of Congress, through Internet Archive, identifier greatsouthrecord01king, ARK ark:/13960/t9087300x, catalogue call number 10064268, LCCN rc 01002442. Original colour camera JP2 supplied in the volume’s original archive, raw leaf 539; the visible source metadata records Canon 5D. Native stored image 4368 × 2912 pixels, turned 90 degrees clockwise and cropped to the 2430 × 3648 page according to the exact leaf metadata. No TIFF claim is made.

• Complete source page in the reader.
• Digitized volume and catalogue.
• Original camera JP2 used for this crop.
• Exact page-sequence, orientation and crop metadata, leaf 539, page 527.
• Printed title page, dated 1875.
• Earlier matching witness: Scribner’s Monthly, vol. 8, no. 1, May 1874, p. 7.

Thank you to the Library of Congress and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and freely providing its original colour camera files.

File and processing

PNG, 2091 × 1191 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Complete input: 4368 × 2912 pixels, 1424235 bytes, SHA-256 d20280a45949fd3d62cbe07713885a05ef4329a84ece43106b30e0afd25accb2.

Lossless 90-degree clockwise transpose, then native page crop (280, 364)–(2710, 4012) according to leaf 539 metadata. Illustration crop (140, 1270)–(2275, 2505) in the upright page. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.457647 degrees clockwise, measured from the robust glyph baseline of the complete printed illustration caption. Final trim (22, 22)–(2113, 1213); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is retained. The full composition, original frame or surrounding hatching, printed caption, signatures and meaningful marks remain. Original paper or grayscale values, show-through, marks, watermark where present, printing irregularities and scan artefacts are retained. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching, watermark removal or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the complete original access file remains unchanged.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration published in the United States in 1875, reproduced by a faithful library scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.