Sample from the UK Daily Weather Reports (1862)

The Daily Weather Reports are collections of telegraph observations used to make daily synoptic weather-maps. The UK started producing them in 1860, and they started out as a simple printed table with handwritten entries.

DWR 1862 sample image, alongside the word blocks produced by Textract. Red and blue chequerboard patterns show tables Textract has found on the page.

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