Folger Collections

More new exciting additions to the Folger collection!

Explore First Folios owned by two 17th-century women, a prop dagger used by a leading actress of the late 19th century, and scripts and programs from a 20th-century women’s theater in Japan that’s still performing Shakespeare today.

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

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

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 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.

In which a 16th century monk flips Erika off, and we all pick out our next tattoos

Fellow Layla Zeitouni explains how the Term “Major” Allowed the Gutenberg Bible to Supersede the Donatus

Identifying handwritten corrections by the author Thomas Nashe in his own work, Almond for a Parrat

We revisit Beth DeBold’s June 2025 presentation as part of our Folger Book Club discussion of Juno Dawson’s Queen B.