The book that I scanned last week, “Blondie and Dagwood’s Snapshot Clue” was the largest book that I have scanned. It ended up being 256 pages including the covers.

Most libraries that would scan a book like this would scan it as “gray-scale.” I like to scan as color and then spend my time getting rid of the color so it ends up looking like it did when it was new. When I scanned these pages they all ended up with an orange cast (see below). That was because it was printed on really cheap paper like newsprint that has turned brown over the years.

The book was also a poor printing job. There are some pages printed very light. I also saw places were some words have a ghost image like they were double printed.

In the end I think my scan ended up looking pretty good.

This book was probably sold for many years as children’s literature. I would think that many copies were printed over the years. But it remains in only 18 libraries according to WorldCat. Those are probably libraries that maintain larger collections of old historic children’s literature. The University of Rochester has a collection of children’s literature but they don’t have this book. I will be offering them this book.

I have scanned other children’s books that I also uploaded to the Internet Archive:

• The Circus Boys on the Mississippi; or, Afloat with the Big Show on the Big River
• Indians of the Longhouse; The Story of the Iroquois
• Nixie Bunny in Faraway-Lands
• The Pet Show
• Down the River Road
• Gulliver’s Travels
• The Three Little Pigs
• The Three Bears
• Rumpelstiltzkin
• Snow Drop
• 50 Years with Snap! Crackle! Pop! Coloring Book
• Walt Disney’s Peter Pan Coloring Book