Side Elevation Erecting Card

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Original cyanotype blueprint in private collection

Applies to engines #5445-5454

Paper is heavily damaged, ripped (especially toward the left side), and creased from decades of being folded in ways which cannot be safely fully uncreased without risking damage to the paper. The original paper has also somewhat warped over time to be slightly banana-shaped from the folding, curving in a slight "U" shape from end to end. As such, this reconstruction took immense effort, but there are going to be some areas of distortion due to the paper being somewhat nonplanar.