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Research and Exploration at the Folger

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Dye to live, live to dye
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Dye to live, live to dye

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Heather Wolfe Margaret Hannay

The Folger has recently acquired some interesting hybrid books; that is, books which consist of a mixture of thematically-connected printed, manuscript, and graphic material gathered from a variety of sources into a single binding. Sidney scholar and Folger reader Margaret…

Rehousing our tinsel print collection
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Rehousing our tinsel print collection

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Rhea DeStefano

Tinsel prints are a unique English art form from the early and mid-19th century. They are typically composed of metal foils, fabric scraps, leather, feathers, and any other suitable material glued onto printed portraits of actors and actresses. Theatrical tinsel…

From Stage to E-page: Theater Archives at the Folger Library
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From Stage to E-page: Theater Archives at the Folger Library

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Georgianna Ziegler

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC opened in 1932. It is representative of a private institution whose collections were very much shaped by the interest of its founders, Henry and Emily Folger. Fortunately for theater historians, the Folgers were…

Folger Tooltips: Finding aids upgraded with links to digital images
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Folger Tooltips: Finding aids upgraded with links to digital images

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Jim Kuhn

While work continues to add to the Folger Digital Image Collection, and new finding aids continue to be added to the Folger Finding Aid Database, staff and interns are also busy upgrading existing finding aids with links to digital images.…

Fore-edge paintings
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Fore-edge paintings

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Erin Blake

Following up on Sarah’s What’s that? post from last week, full marks to everyone who said “fore-edge painting” (also acceptable, though less to the point, “1631 x 401 pixel digital image” and “Wilton House”). Here’s the same image, not cropped…

What's that?!
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What's that?!

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Sarah Werner

A  lot of what we post at The Collation is weighty, chock full of information and detail and (I hope!) interesting facts about our collections, library work, and early modern studies. But sometimes all you want is to look at…

Another (sort of) happy reunion...
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Another (sort of) happy reunion...

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Heather Wolfe

A few months ago I wrote about the joys of bringing together parts of an archive or collection that had gone astray, and provided three recent examples (Manuscript reunions).  Well, it has happened again, but this time, the story is…

Spectral Imaging of Shakespeare's "Seventh Signature"
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Spectral Imaging of Shakespeare's "Seventh Signature"

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Roger L. Easton, Jr.

A guest post by Roger L. Easton, Jr. One of the many treasures at the Folger Shakespeare Library is a copy of William Lambarde’s Archaionomia, a book on Anglo-Saxon law published in 1568 and acquired by the Library in 1938.…

modern adventures in printing
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modern adventures in printing

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Sarah Werner

In keeping with the spirit of my last couple of posts, this one is also about printing, but this time as an activity that my students and I did in our Books and Early Modern Culture seminar. The Folger is…

Librarians gone wild: an alternative spring break
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Librarians gone wild: an alternative spring break

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Sarah Wingo

A guest post by Sarah Wingo I am a student working towards my Masters of Science in Information from the University of Michigan’s School of Information (UM-SI).  I recently had the opportunity, along with six of my peers, to volunteer…

The road to Acquisitions Night 2012
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The road to Acquisitions Night 2012

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Erin Blake

This Thursday is Acquisitions Night, the annual benefit to support Folger collections. It’s something of a three-ring circus: buffet dinner in the Great Hall, conservation demonstrations at one end of the Paster Reading Room, and—in the center ring—dozens of newly-acquired…

correcting mistakes
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correcting mistakes

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Sarah Werner

In my last post, I wrote about my joy in finding printer’s errors and what we might learn from them about early modern printing. In this one, I want to look at some examples of what printers do to correct…

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