The Photograph of the Handwritten Original: A Field Survey and Problem Statement for Machine-Eligible Handwritten Artifacts is a theoretical paper by Lee Sharks, deposited 9 August 2026 as the warrant document for the analog deposit programme specified in EA-SPXI-ANALOG-01 (#1409). The survey treats, discipline by discipline, the literatures adjacent to the specification — papyrological editorial convention and the Leiden system, machine reading of ancient text (Ithaca, the Vesuvius Challenge), handwritten text recognition, writer identification and handwriting synthesis, physical-identity techniques from paper texture to perceptual hashing, cultural-heritage modelling, archival authenticity (InterPARES, RFC 3161), content provenance (C2PA), Unicode transmission integrity, and persistent-identifier infrastructure — stating for each source what it establishes, what it assumes, and what it cannot do. The paper's theoretical center identifies the photograph of the handwritten original as a category Walter Benjamin approached from both sides — mechanical reproduction and graphology — and never crossed, with Camille, Latour and Lowe, and Hansen as the nearest subsequent approaches. On that ground it introduces capture value as a third value of the work of art after cult and exhibition value; extends the Leiden epistemic ladder with a sixth state, the rumored object; distinguishes origination from composition as independently declarable record properties against classifier misattribution; and closes with ten open questions and a claims-to-avoid discipline. The deposit edition carries a consolidated fourteen-section reference apparatus, a nine-illustration apparatus with eight images embedded in the PDF edition, and an in-text convention note governing withheld consent-contingent material.