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Table 1 List of photographs analyzed, with indication of their title, category, and samples removed for micro-invasive analysis of the retouching paint

From: Preliminary photographs and improved positives: discovering the New York Public Library’s Arctic Exploration album

Photograph

Title

Categorya

Samples

11

The Scene Outside the Hut is Desolate and Dreary in the Extreme

Improved (retouching)

 

18

The Fantastically Irregular Surface of the Great Ice-floes, Cape Flora from the Floes by Moonlight

Improved (retouching)

S1) Scraping of blue paint from snowbanks on proper left side of bottom edge

23

Sea Ice Crushed Up by Pressure on the Shore at Cape Flora

Improved (retouching)

 

31

Walrus Asleep on a Piece of Drifting Ice

Improved (retouching)

S2) Scraping of purple-blue paint from sky on top edge at proper left of center

32

Our Start North, March, 1895

Improved (retouching)

 

39

A Samoyad Village Beauty

Improved (retouching)

 

48

A Camp

Improved (retouching)

S3) Scraping of purple paint from sky on upper portion of proper right edge

56

Our Coal-sacks, by Moonlight

Improved (retouching)

S4) Scraping of purple paint from sky on upper portion of proper right edge

93

Brownie, Poor Beast, Lay Down Several Times

Preliminary

 

94

In Difficulties

Preliminary

 

97

Dog-team Under Way with Sail

Preliminary

 

108

I Went Up to Within Eight Yards of Him and Killed Him with One Shot

Improved (retouching)

 

118

Taking Observations for Position at Our Second Camp on Cape Grant

Improved (retouching)

 

171

In Difficulties

Improved (retouching)

 

172

A Rest on the March

Improved (retouching)

 

173

Dog-team Under Way with Sail

Improved (retouching)

 
  1. aFollowing categories described by Newman in 1874 [31].