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Most of the works below have illustrations, and these are generally collected together [in galleries on Commons].
Useful Unicode Characters
[edit]Will be updated with characters that I keep searching for. At the moment there is only one, that is used a lot in Photoplay but isn't easily accessible from the 'special characters' dropdown:
★ - filled 5 pointed star ⁂ - Weirdly the standard asterism in Unicode is 'upside down' compared to the version you normally see in old books, hence this `inverted asterism` template.
Works
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| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_1).djvu | ✔ | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_2).djvu | ✔ | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_3).djvu | done apart from music | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_4).djvu | done apart from music | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_5).djvu | ✔ | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_6).djvu | some work done | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_7).djvu | some work done |
I've been interested in digitising The Strand Magazine for literally decades, and some of the original PG Strand Magazine uploads were done from my scans. One of my early motivations in 'returning' to WS was in finally getting The Strand Magazine done 'properly'. It's a lot of work to crop and upload the images - for these I'm using the scans that I originally uploaded to IA more than 10 years ago!
One major admin effort with these is adding Contents Pages for each issue, as these are generally not included in scans (they would have been in the advertising section which is generally removed when the issues are bound into 6-monthly volumes). I've now added these for the first 10 volumes, using the information from http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k10/k10309.htm
Going further, I'm now also putting the information about the articles on the individual author pages. Currently all the information for the first 10 volumes is done - the aim is to get full contents pages for the first 20 volumes (everything from the 19th century).
April 25: I've recently spend quite a lot of time refreshing the main contents page for The Strand Magazine, so that all of the transclusion work that people have done on later volumes is now properly represented on this main page.
| Volume | Progress | Notes | |||||
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| Vol. 147 (Jul-Dec 1914) | ✔ after a LOT of work! | ||||||
| Vol. 148 & 149 (Jan-Dec 1915) | Vol. 148 main issues now done. |
I also find the WW1-era Punch magazines very interesting -- seeing how the comfortable pre-WW1 world was utterly changed in September 1914. The 1914 volume took a lot of work, some of it semi-automated, to fully transcribe, including cropping hundreds of images, and linking the index to all the articles and authors. I'm now coming back to volume 148, and wishing that I had properly documented my 'semi-automated' steps for Volume 147 - there's a lot of work to move between page numbers, and issue numbers!
| Index:Photoplay (1929-07).pdf | ✔ Done | ||||
| Index:Photoplay (1929-08).pdf | ✔ Done | ||||
| Index:Photoplay (1929-09).pdf | ✔ Done | ||||
| Index:Photoplay (1929-10).pdf | ✔ Done | ||||
| Index:Photoplay (1929-11).pdf | Photos and illustrations cropped. | ||||
| Index:Photoplay (1929-12).pdf | Photos and illustrations cropped. |
What do you do when you have 10 active projects? Start another one! Photoplay was one of the first fan-oriented Hollywood movie periodicals, and is a great record of how movies were reviewed when they first came out. The next few years will be very interesting as the early years of the 'talkies' come out of copyright.
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| Index:The_Gentleman's Magazine 1731-05.pdf | In progress. | |||||
| Index:The_Gentleman's Magazine 1731-06.pdf | In progress. | |||||
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The first issues of the first monthly magazine (which originally meant 'storehouse'), famous for publishing many of Samuel Johnson's early works such as his reports of Parliamentary proceedings. We now have the first 12 issues (forming the first Volume) up on the site, and I won't be linking them all individually here.
| Index:The_Grub-street Journal - 001.pdf | ✔ | ||
| Index:The_Grub-street Journal - 002.pdf | |||
| Index:The_Grub-street Journal - 003.pdf | |||
| Index:The_Grub-street Journal - 004.pdf | |||
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While working on the Gentleman's Magazine I came to enjoy the excerpts it gave from The Grub-street Journal, and then discovered that a complete archive of it exists on archive.org - it ran for 8 years so there's a lot to get through, but each issue is only 4 pages long, so it looks like a fun project to set up - focusing on 1730 for the moment.
| Volume | Progress | Notes | ||||
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| Index:The_New_York_Times,_1918-11-11.pdf | ✔ End of WW1 | |||||
| Index:The_New_York_Times,_1865-04-15.pdf | Death of Lincoln | |||||
| Index:The New York Times, 1929-10-24.pdf | Start of 1929 stock market crash |
My focus on this is getting a complete proofread/transcribe of some important historical dates, as well as getting the page structure organised. The page structure is now looking a lot better than it was when I first worked on it, although I'm still not sure what the point of a 'portal' is! At the main page now makes it possible for readers to browse through the large amount of articles that other people have proofread and transcribed.
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| Index:Popular Mechanics 1928 01.pdf | ✔ | |||||
| Index:Popular Mechanics 1928 11.pdf | Images uploaded and some proofreading done. |
I recently found that Popular Mechanics had a great archive of scans on IA, and have dived into the most recent copyright-free issues (from 1928 as of when this is written). All the 1928 issues have index pages. Often the 'behind the scenes' admin is just as time consuming as the proofreading with projects like this - most recently all of the named authors have been linked to their own WS pages.
All the authors now have links back to all the individual articles.
My enthusiasm for this periodical has waned; I will try and get the November issue finished but will probably not work on the other issues from this year.
Comptometer-Related Material
[edit]| Index:Comptometer_News_1.1.djvu | ✔ Done | |||
| Index:Comptometer_News_1.2.djvu | Illustrations cropped and uploaded. | |||
| Index:Comptometer_News_1.3.djvu | Illustrations cropped and uploaded. | |||
| Index:Comptometer_News_1.4.djvu | Illustrations cropped and uploaded. |
A surprisingly long lived quarterly news bulletin covering events in the lives of Comptometer operatives worldwide.
Other Material Being Worked On
[edit]| Index:The Annual Register 1758.djvu | Some individual articles worked on. |
The Annual Register is important work of British 'official history', including the founding of the 'Black Hole of Calcutta' mythos that lead to the British military focus on India in the 2nd half of the 18th century. Not my index creation, but languished for a long time before I picked it back up. It looks like it's been attracting some interest from other people recently so there's now a realistic prospect of it getting finished!
| Index:The_Whetstone_of_Witte.djvu | Preface done. |
The Whetstone of Witte is the first English algebra textbook, and one that I have used material from for a long time. It's definitely worth transcribing, but has a few problems - if nothing else, the 'cossic' symbols are not in Unicode!
| Index:Notes and Queries - Series 1 - Volume 1.djvu | Issues Done: First 13. |
I'm not entirely sure why I get attracted to periodicals above everything else, but back in the PGDP days I spent quite a lot of time working on Notes and Queries, and the state of it in Wikisource is rather poor - it looks like people have concentrated on getting five million page images on the site, without ever getting anything proofread. So, I'm starting to work through Series 1, Volume 1.
| The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp | First couple of chapters done. |
An interesting autobiography of a Welsh tramp-poet, which I read over the summer and then realised it wasn't in WS. Looks like the index was created a few years ago but has had no work done on it until now.
Completed Works
[edit]| The Life and Writings of Alexandre Dumas | ✔ |
I worked on this as a 'palate cleanser' between harder projects. I processed as it was linked from the Author page for Dumas, who featured in several Strand Magazine issues.
| Index:Blackwood's Magazine volume 002.djvu | Issue 12 done! |
I've been specifically concentrating on Issue 12 of Blackwood's Magazine, as it contained a couple of articles I was interested in, and in particular an early review of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. As I've proofread it I've grown to enjoy its style - it's similar in conception to the Gentleman's Magazine, but 100 years later and Scottish. I've now completed proofreading the issue that contained that review, and I'm not planning on doing any more work on it in the immediate future.
| Index:Methods of Operating the Comptometer (1895).djvu | ✔ |
The manual of an early calculating machine, and the first one to gain widespead popularity. There are several editions, books of exercises, and both US and UK magazines from the 20s onwards. Initially found due to a reference in a jobs advert in the 1918 New York Times. I'm happy to see that this has gone through the Monthly Challenge and is now completely validated. It may be a while before any other work that I've contributed to the site reaches the same status!
| Index:The Radio Times, 1923-09-28.pdf | ✔ |
The Radio Times was the official listing magazine of the BBC, starting in 1923, and continuing into the 21st century. This is the very first issue, from 1923. I like the idea of proofreading more of these but, if I do, I'll probably focus on the articles rather than the listings (which are already available from the BBC). This one is completed, though, so there's a formatting base to work on.
| Index:The_Metropolis_of_Tomorrow.pdf | ✔ |
An interesting early work on city planning and the architecture of 'skyscrapers'.
'Shelved' Projects
[edit]| Index:The Illustrated London News, 1923-02-24.pdf | Index created. |
An incredibly long-running weekly illustrated newspaper, and yet another Sisyphean project that I would never be able to complete! I'm looking at specific interesting issues to work on, and this is the 'Egypt Special' coinciding with the wave of interest due to the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb. Lots of nice illustrations, but sadly it's all from microfilm so the quality is not as good as it could be. I also don't want to have to deal with moving images back and forth to Commons based on UK copyright law, so I will probably shelve this project for the moment.
| Index:Origin_of_Modern_Calculating_Machines.djvu | Just created. |
An illustrated book on the history of calculating machines from 1921. From Chicago so with a Compometer bias! Vaguely interested, but very low priority to work on.
| Index:The Arts - Volume 1.pdf | Issues 1 and 2 done. |
I have wanted to work on a 'modern art' journal for some time, and this looks like a good one - published for around 10 years from 1920 into the early 1930s. Sadly it looks like uploading the art to Commons would get very complicated due to the need for everything to be out of copyright in both the US and the country of origin, and I don't really want to have to deal with that.