File:SB-07-276-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Old Mill, East Marion, matching H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 276, item 1. The four canvas-edged sails and shaft, mill structure and windows, church and single figure at the left, fence and ground shadows and engraved strokes match. The complete composition, frame and original printed caption are retained. The exact engraved design is confirmed; the artist, engraver and physical copy used for the album cutting are not independently established here.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LVII, no. 341, October 1878, p. 718 (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 exact source leaf/page mapping identifies original camera exposure 734 as p. 718. 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 734. 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 unchanged original camera JP2.
• 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, 1850 × 1680 pixels, preserving the natural paper colour. Original camera JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1239517 bytes, SHA-256 bb61eb57459611563a58b847473be300ff9287db24a212dbef8bb51935b72a9a.

Lossless 90-degree counterclockwise transpose, then one 0.259063447-degree clockwise bicubic correction on the full native 3744 × 5616 canvas without expansion, measured from 18 printed caption glyph baselines. Final crop (990, 3140)–(2840, 4820), 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.