| This book was handed down to my sister from our mother, and was loaned to me for this project. Although smarmy by today's standards, I was astonished on many levels at the content of one scene in particular. The overall impression I was left with was, how very different this country must have become in 80 years, and not necessarily for the better.
The book is hard covered, the paper in fairly good shape, and is bound with thread. Only the cover and one plate (immediately inside the cover) are in color. Many of the full-page plates were printed on a greenish paper (close to the color you see in this background). I've placed the pictures amongst the texts that refer to them. The book did not have that flexibility, so the placements may not represent how they appear in the book. In the most radical example, the final two images were swapped. It appears this is one in a series. The big clue is the "Moon Queen Series" logo that appears twice, and that the story sounds like it begins in the middle of a grander tale. |
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All of the small pictures ("thumbs") are links to larger versions. The large ones included here are designed to fill your screen if you use Internet Explorer in 800x600 mode, and use the The index of the Flower Folks and the links to the larger versions of the plates, are designed to open secondary pages that can stay fixed in size and space. That means you could size the story window to occupy about half the screen, then open a vertical plate or Flower Folk, and size that window to show the whole image in the secondary, which you can leave to occupy the other half. As you click on other links, the window content will change. You don't have to keep opening and closing windows, although some might benefit from viewing them in full-screen mode (get used to the F11 key!). If you want to resize the text, you can hold down the Ctrl key while using the scroll wheel on your mouse, or you can pull down the "View" menu, select "Text size", and pick from the list. If you call up every page and view every picture, you will have downloaded about 3.7Mb into your temporary files folder. |
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I scanned all the pages, used OmniPage 386 (yes, really old!) OCR software to recognize the text, edited the images with PhotoStyler (yes, another really old software), then edited the scanned text on-screen while my wife (Lorri) read me the story. Then I split up the chapters into separate files and added the web coding.
I've never found any refernce to T. Benjamin Faucett on the Internet. If anyone has info on the man, please let me know.
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