FSB Scanning Bureau: sample images

This page contains links to images which show the variety and quality of work which the Bureau undertakes.

Please note that the versions you can see on this website are JPEG extracts. The original master images are uncompressed TIFF files, and are therefore of even higher quality.

These thumbnails will probably open with your browser software, rather than dedicated imaging software, and therefore you will not immediately see these images full size.

Please feel free to open the image within your own imaging program and resize to 100% to see the full detail.

Oliver Cromwell's stirrups (opens in a new window)Oliver Cromwell's stirrups, from the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon. This image is 1.79 megabytes in size.




Miss Fanny Wale's A Record of Shelford Parva (opens in new window)Detail from Miss Fanny Wale's A Record of Shelford Parva. This image is 1.55 megabytes in size.




Quietus roll of 1591 (opens in new window)Quietus roll of 1591. This image is 1.7 megabytes in size.





Intaglio showing Bacchus (opens in new window)Intaglio showing Bacchus, original size 15mm x 13mm, from the county archaeology collections. This image is 1.3 megabytes in size.



Mr S. Needham of De Frevill Avenue (opens in new window)Mr S. Needham of De Freville Avenue, Cambridge, 1921 from the Cambridgeshire Collection. This image is 1.37 megabytes in size.



Detail from elevation of St. Andrew's church, Cherry Hinton (opens in new window)Detail from elevation of St. Andrew's church, Cherry Hinton, 1878. This image is 1.62 megabytes in size.




The following two images show our ability to digitally retouch images to remove scratches and cracks. The original is a photographic portrait of a vicar ordered by Miss Williams, Brecon, Powys, in 1906, now in the Cambridgeshire Collection. These images are 1.78 and 1.4 megabytes in size.

Vicar before restoration (opens in new window)Vicar before restoration






Vicar after restoration (opens in new window)Vicar after restoration







Please contact us if you would like to see other examples of our work.


Last updated: Wednesday 17 November 2010, 14:39

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FSB Scanning Bureau
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Room 004
Shire Hall
Castle Hill
Cambridge
CB3 0AP

Telephone: 01223 507200
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