D_Blackwell - 1:14 am on Sep 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

I've had to leave this off a few days; sorry. Partly to finish other things. Part to finish this project. No issue appears to exist anywhere except for right here, and only with this set of images. I have found no problems with IE with the completed live pages.
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Images are composed of a descriptive header, followed by the actual data. If you were to open the file in a hex editor, you would see what the file type is. i.e. image.tif may have been mislabeled as image.jpg

You could lose me quick. (Safer to treat me like a child on this.) Searched hex editors and found tons of choices; including a list of about 100 and noting the varying features of each. Yikes. Didn't want to download something without downloading something recommended as a good choice. Might be handy to have, but certainly want recommendations from people that know what's what.
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Maybe try again with new images, not the scans.

Not an option. Scans are forty-two illustrations from 1896 edition. The best that I can do is download the largest of four size offerings and then resize and cut down file size in Photoshop. This I have done. Everything looks great - except on the local machine in IE only. Go live - there they are - and looking good. ? ?
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I did find a reference that TextPad can be used as a hex editor; though don't know this to be true, or if is a good choice even if so. I do have an old free version and opened an image but have no clue what I'm looking at - or if it is useful or fully functional in an old free version. ?

Seems to be three sections of data - none of which I was able to select and copy.? Also does not appear at all editable.?

First section on left goes: 0, 10, 20, 30, ..... 1A0, 1B0.....

Middle section is 16 blocks of two character numbers and letters per line. Seems a slight gap that makes them perhaps two blocks eight-wide each.?

Line 1:
FF D8 FF E0 00 10 4A 46 49 46 00 01 0101 03 20

Line 2:
03 20 00 00 FF FE 00 7F 66 72 6F 6D 20 41 4C 49

and so forth.

The third section consists of:

JFIF; some plain text that notes the original source of the image, publisher, publication date...; then quickly becomes a complete gobbledygook of characters.
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So, though I do not appear to have any online 'live' issues, I remain curious as to why the images are not viewable only in IE and only here? I hate to just give up on a mystery, might learn something, and might add a decent hex editor to my software collection.