File:SB-07-266-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Photographing Under Difficulties. An outdoor seaside photography scene with a photographer under his focusing cloth, a camera on a tripod, a running boy, a standing man holding up his hat, a second boy and a seated group. The figures, poses, camera, huts, beachgoers, hatching and signs BATHING SUITS and FERRO-TYPE GALLERY ON EARTH match H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 266, item 3. The full scene, faint sky strokes, roof apex, lower-left engraved signature and printed caption are retained.

From New York in Summer, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume LVII, no. 341, October 1878, printed p. 700 (New York: Harper & Brothers). The source page directly prints folio 700. The bound volume title page prints June to November 1878; the October issue opening prints No. CCCXLI. The repository's generic date 1913 is not this physical volume's publication date.

Individual artist and engraver identities have not been independently established here; the engraved signature is preserved without an unverified name expansion or role assignment. Article authorship is not transferred to the illustration. The very first appearance and the physical source copy used for the scrapbook cutting remain unestablished.

Source

Internet Archive, identifier harpersmagazine57alde, a physical volume bearing the Burlingame Public Library stamp. Internet Archive is listed as sponsor and contributor; the physical library stamp does not identify the digital scan supplier. Original colour camera JP2, raw leaf 716.

• Complete source page, printed p. 700.
• Digitized volume and catalogue.
• Exact original camera JP2 used for this file.
• Source leaf and page metadata.
• October 1878 issue opening.

Thank you to Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making its original colour camera files freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 2305 × 1230 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Original JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1264400 bytes, SHA-256 06f2dc2451ab68ef88224b7a689d7a6bcf43e4d8d505073cec3275574143f04b.

Lossless 90-degree counterclockwise transpose, then source-metadata page crop (509, 469)–(3409, 5073). Native context crop (245, 325)–(2600, 1605), one bicubic correction of 0.683410 degrees clockwise measured from 32 printed caption glyph components, then final trim (25, 25)–(2330, 1255). Right and bottom bounds are exclusive. The complete composition, faint peripheral strokes, roof apex, signature and caption are retained; neighbouring text and the separate lower illustration are outside the crop. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the complete source remains unchanged.

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.