Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/Synoptic index/Channel Islands
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These pages contain a subject and place index (still under construction!) to the books scanned to create the British Library's Mechanical Curator collection of images.
Each entry in the index points to the images on Flickr which match the tag for the book. Additionally, when there are images from a book that have been copied over to Commons, this is shown with a green clickable (Book cat) link, which links to the relevant Commons category for the book.
A full list of the titles of the books that were scanned for the collection is also available, at
and succeeding pages, which may help browsing what is available.
The index is not (yet) complete. As of January 22, 2014 the titles in the detailed part of the index below accounted for about 40% of the images in the whole collection. A further 35% of images can be found through a more loosely organised set of "to do" pages constructed based on the books' class-marks, while a further 20% of images occur in books which are classed below as fiction, plays, verse or works. The focus of the indexing so far has been mostly geographical, with little development as yet of thematic classification.
The Commons main project page for the collection gives some further hints on searching; on how to upload the images to Commons, and on how to tag images on Flickr. If you do upload images to Commons, please create a Commons category for the book they were taken from, like those in Category:Books with images from the British Library Mechanical Curator collection, and include the images in it. The template {{HasBookCat}} can then be used to create a link to the category (on a green background) from the book's entry in this list.
Georeferencing campaign: For any titles below that have a to georef template, please click on that templated link to find the thumbnails and then the pages on Flickr for the relevant map and plan images, and follow the links in their image description sections to the BL/Klokan Georeferencer to place the images on a present-day map of the world. This in turn should allow the map images' ready upload to Wikimedia Commons with reasonably accurate automatic categorisation. See also: BL information page and overall progress page.
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Channel Islands edit
- The Channel Islands, etc. (Second edition.) With maps. (1835; 9 images, 3 plates; 2 maps); 1838 edition (9 images, 3 plates; 2 maps)
- The Beautiful Islets of Britaine ... Described and illustrated from sketches on the spot by the author. Re-issue, with additions. Comprising reissues of “The Beautiful Islets of Britaine,” “The Wild Hebrides,” and “The Islets of the Channel.” (1860; 92 images, 7 plates; 7 maps)
- The Channel Islands ... With illustrations drawn by P. J. Naftel and with maps (1862; 75 images, 8 plates; 4 maps ); 1865 edition (75 images, 8 plates; 4 maps )
- Two Knapsacks in the Channel Islands ... Illustrated by V. Prout (1897; 90 images, 36 plates; no maps)
- The History of the Island of Guernsey ... from the remotest period of antiquity to the year 1814. Containing an interesting account of the island; its government, civil, military and ecclesiastical; peculiar privileges, customs, etc. With particulars of the neighbouring islands of Alderney, Serk, and Iersey; compiled from the valuable collections of ... Henry Budd ... as well as from authentic documents, etc. With plates and a map. (1815; 31 images, 31 plates; 1 map)
- Guernsey and its Bailiwick. A guide and a gossip, with notices of Sark, Herm, Jethou, and Alderney ... Maps, plans, and illustrations. Second edition, revised (1890; 13 images, 8 plates; 6 maps)
- Tableaux historiques de la civilisation à Jersey: résumé philosophique des moeurs, lois et coutumes de l'île, etc. With plates. (1852; 9 images, 6 plates; 4 maps to georef )
- Jersey: ses antiquités, ses institutions, son histoire (1859; 62 images, 2 plates; no maps)
- The Jubilee Guide to Jersey, in rhyme, by a Modern Troubadour Patrick O'Carroll (1887; 10 images, 1 plate; 1 map)
- Beautiful Jersey. A pictorial and descriptive souvenir-guide, etc (1899; 64 images, 40 plates; 2 maps)
- (Book cat (100%)) Sark; a practical guide ... 5th edition (1897; 12 images, 4 plates; 2 maps)
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