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The Big Four
Hi, I am interested to proofread this book from Agatha Christie, but I can't find a scan online. According to The Big Four, it is from 1927, so PD in USA. Any idea? Thanks, Yann (talk) 16:46, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yann: Is this good? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:33, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * TE(æ)A,ea.: I can't see the content from here, but I suppose yes. Thanks, Yann (talk) 21:19, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yann: Would if be helpful for you to have me download the file from Google Books and upload it locally for you to be able to work on it? (Dame Christie’s works being copyrighted in the United Kingdom, it would be a local upload.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:46, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * TE(æ)A,ea.: Yes, great! Yann (talk) 22:48, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yann: Index:The Big Four (Christie).pdf is ready! TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:38, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * This section was archived on a request by: TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:58, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

The Negro-Art Hokum
The Washington Post mentions on the African-American history AP is a list of 25 most important sources.
 * But the top 25 list also includes a 1926 essay called “The Negro Art Hokum” by George Schuyler, a longtime conservative columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier, a widely read Black newspaper, blasting the idea that African American art was different from any other kind of art as “self-evident foolishness.”

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1926-george-s-schulyer-negro-art-hokum-0/is a copy, but the original source would be nice.--Prosfilaes (talk) 16:27, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Prosfilaes: See “The Negro-Art Hokum.” TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:14, 6 February 2023 (UTC)


 * This section was archived on a request by: --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:21, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer (1921)
It's on Project Gutenberg, but I haven't been able to track down scans. If anyone can find (or make?) scans I would really appreciate it. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 05:59, 13 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Are you sure they have the right date? HathiTrust has a 1929, printed 1974 edition, and the IA not full view copy still shows enough to see a claim the first printing was in 1929.--Prosfilaes (talk) 14:05, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Prosfilaes: The Black Moth says it was published in 1921, when Heyer was 19, and that it was her first novel. I would be surprised if List of works by Georgette Heyer were that systematically wrong about the dates of Heyer's career. However, I would not be surprised if The Black Moth was revised in 1929 like Powder and Patch, which was first published in 1923 as The Transformation of Philip Jettan and republished in 1930 as Powder and Patch. Also, the Library of Congress has a 1921 edition listed at https://lccn.loc.gov/22003020 —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 18:55, 13 March 2023 (UTC)


 * CalendulaAsteraceae, Prosfilaes: Here you go: Index:The Black Moth.pdf. It was, indeed, first published in 1921. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:35, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @TE(æ)A,ea.: Thank you so much! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 01:50, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:26, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Mooresville High School yearbooks, 1914–1930
I already have scans for these, but they are in the form of Facebook galleries and extracting them by hand is tedious. I'm hoping someone can use a bot to speed things up a bit. The process is:
 * Go to the Facebook galleries, linked at https://mooresvillelib.org/mooresville-high-school-digitized-yearbooks/
 * Save the images in order
 * Upload the images to Commons to allow for for later image extraction (and scan repair if needed; it turned out their scan of the 1909 yearbook was missing some pages)
 * Combine the images into a PDF or DJVU and upload that to Commons
 * Put everything in a subcategory of commons:Category:Yearbooks of Mooresville High School

commons:Category:Mooresville High School Yearbook, 1911, which I did by hand, is an example of what I'm looking for. All the yearbooks are PD-US, except for the 1930 one, which is PD-US-no notice. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 02:46, 19 September 2023 (UTC)


 * In fact, I just noticed that they have 2 versions of the 1920 yearbook album, and the one linked from the library website is missing a page, so for the 1920 yearbook, please use https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2615532255167809&type=3 —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 02:50, 19 September 2023 (UTC)


 * CalendulaAsteraceae: It might be better to direct this request to the Scan Lab. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:32, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Good point, I'll do that. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 01:31, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
 * This section was archived on a request by: See Scan Lab —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 02:02, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Comin’ Thro' the Rye, 1875
Author:Ellen Buckingham Mathews

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Comin_Thro_the_Rye/upFRAAAAYAAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Ellen+Buckingham+Mathews&printsec=frontcover

Thank you. Stamlou (talk) 16:06, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Stamlou: This scan is in color (and is higher quality). Does the edition work? IA also has the first edition, but that’s in three volumes, if you don’t want that. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:38, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I have no preference in regard to the edition. The first one you suggest looks fine to me. Stamlou (talk) 22:25, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Stamlou: Here you go: Index:Comin' Thro' the Rye (1898).djvu. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:22, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Great work, thank you so much Stamlou (talk) 11:41, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 * This section was archived on a request by: MER-C 06:47, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

On chronology and the construction of the calendar, with special regard to the Chinese computation of time compared with the European
Google Books, HathiTrust. A text I have some personal interest in (also I want to see how well the OCR tools we have handle handwritten text). Arcorann (talk) 02:17, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Arcorann: Here you go: File:On Chronology and the Construction of the Calendar.pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 05:47, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, will be "interesting" to transcribe.
 * This section was archived on a request by: Arcorann (talk) 06:43, 30 December 2023 (UTC)