File:SB-09-101-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Department of Our Social Relations, matching H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 9, page 101, item 1. The family group on the left, woman and children on the right, two animal ovals, complete scrollwork frame, lettering and three-line epigraph match. No artist or engraver is securely identified here.

This colour scan is a later repeated impression of the same ornamental heading, from The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, vol. LXIV, February 1877, p. 114 (New York: S. R. Wells & Co.). The physical bound title page reads January to June 1877, and this leaf prints February and folio 114. The general repository date 1870 describes the serial and is not used for this impression.

The album cutting and its adjacent articles A Royal Funeral in Egypt and Martha A. Maxwell match November 1876, vol. LXIII, no. 5, p. 349. That exact page is independently linked below. The unrelated Two Lives prose below the 1877 impression is excluded from the crop and is not attributed to the album. This later quality copy does not establish the physical copy used for the album or its assembly date; album text, notes and metadata are unchanged.

Source

Wellcome Library, digitized volume hosted by Internet Archive, serial b31515915, object s5967id1397959, ark:/13960/t8qd1rt4t. Processed JP2 leaf 0122, downloaded as its native-size JPEG representation; this is not the original camera JP2 container.

• Complete source page: February 1877, p. 114.
• Bound volume title, January to June 1877.
• Matching original album article context, November 1876, p. 349.
• Digitized volume and repository record.
• Full unchanged JPEG representation used for the crop.

Thank you to Wellcome Library and Internet Archive for preserving this material and freely providing the scans.

Rights

The current Internet Archive record, checked 4 November 2026, credits Wellcome Library and links Public Domain Mark 1.0 for this work. This is a public-domain status marker, not CC0 or a Creative Commons licence. The underlying nineteenth-century US printed work is public domain by publication age.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 2400 × 540 pixels. Source JPEG: 2772 × 4653 pixels, 1399172 bytes, SHA-256 ab6ebfaef66a46e0e3e668702f521c0b9413a743382598299a538f193f7d6a76.

One 0.286606784-degree clockwise bicubic alignment correction on the full native canvas without expansion. Alignment evidence: Long lower printed rule, native endpoints (300,977)-(2499,966); 2199px support. Final native-coordinate crop (200, 465)–(2600, 1005), right and bottom exclusive. The complete printed illustration, frame and caption or epigraph are retained. All output pixels lie within the original image-supported area, with no added canvas. Natural paper colour, fading, stains, show-through and original marks remain. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching, reconstruction or generative processing. Final pixels were independently reproduced from the unchanged source JPEG.