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Summary

Description

Up the Wissahickon—The Drive. A tree-lined road beside the Wissahickon, with walkers, a dog, figures beside the river and a rocky wooded bank. The tree trunks, branches, walkers, dog, road, water and hatching match the top scrapbook view. The original caption and engraved signature are retained. The individual roles and full names of artist and engraver have not been securely established here.

From Philadelphia and Its Environs, and the Railroad Scenery of Pennsylvania, with225illustrations (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., [1875]), printed p.85. The title is undated in print; its Library of Congress copyright stamp, pencilled date, printed copyright verso and catalogue record identify1875. This witness is not the Centennial1876 edition.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume3, page219, top view. The album combines separate cuttings; this witness does not establish the first-ever appearance or the physical source copy used for them.

Source

Original colour camera scan provided by the Library of Congress, through Internet Archive, identifier philadelphiaitse00jb, ARK ark:/13960/t3nv9r31g, catalogue call number 9128414, LCCN 01010600. Shelfmark visible on the copyright verso: F158.5 .P53.

• Digitized book and catalogue record.
• Original camera JP2, leaf115, printed p.85.
• Scandata linking the leaf, printed page, orientation and page crop.
• Title page in the access PDF; its copyright verso is PDF page30. The PDF is an access derivative, not the pixel source of this crop.

Thank you to the Library of Congress and Internet Archive for preserving this book and making the original colour camera files freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 2022 × 1072 pixels, RGB. Original JP2: 4368 × 2912 pixels, 1304251 bytes, SHA-256 be93b33aa047974ad65c4014f22ad9b012f7d47f1f2b5f973c9d3cce52eb2c63.

Lossless90-degree transpose clockwise, followed by the documented page crop(203, 419)–(2486, 3867) at native pixels. The panel was cropped within that page to(70, 200)–(2140, 1320). One bicubic alignment correction of1.286385 degrees clockwise. Final trim(24, 24)–(2046, 1096); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The original paper colour, marks, show-through, engraved details and caption are retained. No PDF rasterization, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless.

Rights

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