The Collation

Guess what these series of dots mean in this month’s Folger Mystery!

A look at the many roles that musicians played aboard Early Modern ships.

More new exciting additions to the Folger collection!

Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Curator of Early Modern Books and Prints, highlights some exciting new items in the Folger collection

A closer look at 17th century engraved rings in the Folger’s collection

A look at some of the colonial sources that informed the understanding that 17th century English people had of North Africa.

Findings from a 1945 survey asking patrons of a library about their experiences reading, watching, and performing Shakespeare.

Conservation interns from the Folger and Library of Congress share their experience working across both institutions to learn new techniques for treating materials and for preparing materials for exhibition.

Through her correspondence, Delia Salter Bacon reveals what it was like to undergo a 19th century “water-cure”

Fellow Jamie Gemmell explores how race was performed in the annual London Lord Mayor’s Show

Fellow Jean Marie Christensen explores beauty standards of the 17th century.

Herbarius: A New Herbal for the Anthropocene, by 2024-25 artist research fellow Suzette Marie Martin, is a “deconstructed manuscript” series of paintings that traces the intercontinental dispersal of non-native plant species through formerly valued medicinal herbs, now despised as weeds.