File:SB-07-220-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Follow my Lead, matching H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 220, item 1. Children jumping from the broken jetty, the two girls below, the bucket and spade, distant towers and sailboat, irregular stepped outline and engraved strokes match. The complete engraved composition and original printed caption are retained. The rectangular crop also preserves the original printed article text occupying the stepped artwork's recess; this text has not been erased or replaced with artificial paper. 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. 696 (New York: Harper & Brothers). The issue opening prints No. CCCXLI, October 1878 and Vol. LVII; the bound title page prints June to November 1878. The original leaf mapping identifies camera exposure 712 as page 696. 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 712. 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, 2160 × 2330 pixels, preserving the natural paper colour. Original camera JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1415675 bytes, SHA-256 770a3bf291a5b24f89024643aad95771e3a682932bb0704016beb47bac3420b8.

Lossless 90-degree counterclockwise transpose, then one 0.632614797-degree counterclockwise bicubic correction on the full native 3744 × 5616 canvas without expansion, measured from 12 printed caption glyph baselines. Final crop (880, 750)–(3040, 3080), right and bottom exclusive. Complete composition 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.