Sergey: == Description == '''Up the Schuylkill, from Columbia Bridge.''' Historical engraving showing a view over the Schuylkill River from a wooded rocky bank, with a man, boats and a landing, from ''Philadelphia and Its Environs, and the Railroad Scenery of Pennsylvania'', with 225 illustrations (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., '''[1875]'''), printed p. '''75'''. The title page is undated in print; its pencilled date, the Library of Congress copyright stamp and the printed copyright verso ide...

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== Description == '''Up the Schuylkill, from Columbia Bridge.''' Historical engraving showing a view over the Schuylkill River from a wooded rocky bank, with a man, boats and a landing, from ''Philadelphia and Its Environs, and the Railroad Scenery of Pennsylvania'', with 225 illustrations (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., '''[1875]'''), printed p. '''75'''. The title page is undated in print; its pencilled date, the Library of Congress copyright stamp and the printed copyright verso ide...

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== Summary ==
== Description ==
'''Up the Schuylkill, from Columbia Bridge.''' Historical engraving showing a view over the Schuylkill River from a wooded rocky bank, with a man, boats and a landing, from ''Philadelphia and Its Environs, and the Railroad Scenery of Pennsylvania'', with 225 illustrations (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., '''[1875]'''), printed p. '''75'''. The title page is undated in print; its pencilled date, the Library of Congress copyright stamp and the printed copyright verso identify 1875. The artist and engraver have not been securely identified here; the engraved signatures are preserved.

The full composition, engraving details and caption match [[HPB-SB-3-59|H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 59, item 2]]. This witness does not establish the first-ever appearance of the drawing or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook.

== Source ==
Colour scan provided by the '''Library of Congress''', digitized book identifier '''philadelphiaitse00jb'''. Shelfmark visible on the copyright verso: '''F158.5 .P53'''.

* [https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/philadelphiaitse00jb/philadelphiaitse00jb.pdf#page=105 Complete LOC PDF, printed p.75, PDF page105]. The retained PDF has '''212 pages''', '''70074608 bytes''', SHA-256 <code>66bc0999ca3f961a15d1c39ed75a5eef9454a28859c11d19b8656882c922f095</code>.
* [https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/philadelphiaitse00jb/philadelphiaitse00jb.pdf#page=29 Title page, PDF page29]; printed copyright1875 is PDF page30.

Thank you to the Library of Congress for preserving this book and making its colour scan freely available.

== File and processing ==
JPEG, '''3960 × 5590 pixels''', RGB. The retained complete colour JPEG page is '''4413 × 6667 pixels''', '''3068774 bytes''', SHA-256 <code>f9a4ac08595bf8f229e21bd8dcce47b16c9a01150b4d6296f27e322e2fb23471</code>.

The complete irregularly shaped engraving and caption were retained within a rectangular page fragment, cropped from(160, 680)–(4180, 6330). Adjacent original prose inside that rectangle is retained, without masking, erasing or filling paper. Alignment was corrected by0.210821 degrees clockwise using one bicubic resampling. The crop was trimmed to(30, 30)–(3990, 5620). Right and bottom bounds are exclusive. JPEG quality98 with no chroma subsampling, at unchanged crop dimensions. No added canvas is included. The complete page, including all surrounding text, remains available in the source PDF. Natural paper colour, marks and show-through are retained. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied.

== Rights ==
Public-domain historical engraving published in the United States in1875, reproduced by a faithful library scan. The printed copyright page is linked above. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to the Library of Congress for this object.

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