Archive PDFs (Pretty Darn Fuzzy)

Edisone · Post by **Edisone** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:27 pm

I'm looking for a specific ad, so am wading through the original images of a Talking Machine World scan. Look at this - no wonder so many of the archive files stink! The book is laid on a piece of cardboard, with no effort to flatten the pages and the book is obviously un-square with the camera frame. There's usually no focus checking, either, and often half or more of a page is unreadable. THEN they compress these into a clunky form of PDF which takes forever to open.

Yes, yes - I know - we should be grateful for any access to such old material....but it would be nicer if it was halfway decent.

ps - I'm looking for an advertisement pushing a Vincennes 10-record changer that's spring powered.

OrthoSean · Post by **OrthoSean** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:35 pm

On Archive.org, there are several years of the TMW available through the Library of Congress. Nice, clean scans, nothing like this. And you can save them as well. I always select the "read online" option. Try here:

http://archive.org/stream/talkingmachin ... 9/mode/2up

Sean

52089 · Post by **52089** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:13 pm

Have you tried the Digital Public Library of America? http://dp.la

They have a lot of public domain material available. Worth a shot.

Edisone · Post by **Edisone** » Sat Jul 27, 2013 3:54 am

OrthoSean wrote:On Archive.org, there are several years of the TMW available through the Library of Congress. Nice, clean scans, nothing like this. And you can save them as well. I always select the "read online" option. Try here:

http://archive.org/stream/talkingmachin ... 9/mode/2up

Sean

They are the same images, after being rotated more or less upright & cropped.

Archive PDFs (Pretty Darn Fuzzy)

Archive PDFs (Pretty Darn Fuzzy)

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