File:SB-07-215-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Old Horton House, Southold, matching H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 215, item 1. The connected roofs and chimneys, windows and doorway, left tree and broken fence, rows of foreground plants, two figures and hatching match. The entire irregularly drawn frame and original OLD HORTON HOUSE, SOUTHOLD. caption are retained. The album cutting omits this printed caption. The exact engraved design is confirmed; the physical copy used for the album cutting and the artist and engraver are not independently established here.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LVII, no. 341, October 1878, p. 715 (New York: Harper & Brothers). The issue opening physically prints No. CCCXLI, October 1878 and Vol. LVII; the bound title page prints June to November 1878. Page 715 is established by the source leaf/page mapping; this illustrated layout has no visible printed folio. The date of this impression does not establish when the scrapbook leaf was assembled.

Source

Internet Archive, identifier harpersmagazine57alde, ark:/13960/t8w97kr8k. Original colour camera exposure 731. The physical volume bears the Burlingame Public Library stamp; the current record lists Internet Archive as contributor and burlingamepubliclibrary as donor. The catalogue's generic date 1913 is not the date of this physical volume and is not used here.

• Complete source page.
• Digitized volume and current catalogue.
• Exact original camera JP2 used here.
• Leaf and page mapping.

Thank you to Internet Archive for preserving this volume and freely sharing its original colour camera files, and to Burlingame Public Library for the source copy.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration published in the United States in 1878, reproduced by a faithful scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object. The exact current repository record and freely available original member were checked 4 November 2026.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 2420 × 1470 pixels, preserving the natural paper colour. Original camera JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1557660 bytes, SHA-256 5e32224f8a06f4b6d8c52898b16c84f1315c8265aa4bf1c316b76cc6caa487b2.

Lossless 90-degree clockwise transpose, then one 1.085208950-degree clockwise bicubic correction on the full native 3744 × 5616 canvas without expansion, measured from 24 inlier printed caption glyphs. The hand-drawn frame was not forced into an artificial rectangle. Final crop (520, 720)–(2940, 2190), right and bottom exclusive. Full frame, foliage, plants, figures and caption remain within the original image-supported area. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. Final pixels were independently reproduced from the unchanged original JP2.