The Folger's Digital Image Collection offers online access to over 35,000 images from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, art, and more. Images are available in high resolution and users can show multiple images side-by-side, zoom in and out to see fine detail, view cataloging information when available, export thumbnails, and construct permanent URLs linking back to their favorite items or searches.
Through the Digital Image Collection, you can:
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Compare 19th-century productions of Shakespeare with today's through historic photographs and promptbooks
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Look at letters written by Queen Elizabeth I
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Examine rare paintings in "up close and personal" detail
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Read diary entries from over 200 years ago
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and much more
Getting Started
Our Digital Image Collection is made available with Luna Insight®, a software toolset for accessing web-based digital image collections. The Insight software and Digital Image Collection hosted on servers at the Folger Shakespeare Library are now available for use by the general public.
There are two ways to explore our Digital Image Collection.
Use Your Web Browser
You may use your web browser (be sure to turn off popup blockers), which provides access to the collection through an interface called Browser Insight® that is convenient, but limited in features.
Copy and paste this Browser Insight URL into your favorite web browser, or just click on the link:
http://titania.folger.edu/browse
Remember to turn off pop-up blockers!
Install Luna Insight on Your PC or Mac
You can install a free program called Luna Insight® which provides features like access to our digitized Shakespeare Quartos collection, the ability to export thumbnails as html pages so that you can share images offline or on other websites, and more.
Click Features for details about the program, and a link to instructions on how to download and install.
