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A Master Tailor’s Manual
An image of a single page of a book with a small block of text on the left in Spanish and an image of three men, two sewing and one using a compass and a ruler.
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A Master Tailor’s Manual

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Abner Aldarondo
Seasons' Greetings
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Seasons' Greetings

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Postcards in the (home) archive 1944-1945
A postcard depicting the exterior of the Folger Shakespeare Library
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Postcards in the (home) archive 1944-1945

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Stephen H. Grant
Recipes for Survival
A two-page spread of a handwritten recipe book.
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Recipes for Survival

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Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
Twill tape, plus toggles, plus toggler, equals quick-ties
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Twill tape, plus toggles, plus toggler, equals quick-ties

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Erin Blake
“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: December 2022
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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: December 2022

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Interpreting Systems that Make Place
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Interpreting Systems that Make Place

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Lehua Yim
The habitability of our planet—is it only a contemporary issue?
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The habitability of our planet—is it only a contemporary issue?

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Mauricio Onetto
When Past is Prologue: Munro, Malley, and the #IranRevolution
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When Past is Prologue: Munro, Malley, and the #IranRevolution

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Nedda Mehdizadeh
An Italian Naturalist in England
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An Italian Naturalist in England

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish
“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: November 2022
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“What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?”: November 2022

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This month crocodile mystery comes from John Ward’s diary, V.a. 291, volume 8, leaf 18v.   Can you decipher the highlighted text especially the first and last words of the sentence? Leave your attempts in the comments below and we’ll…

Condicions agreed vppon: a 17th century Polish-Turkish treaty
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Condicions agreed vppon: a 17th century Polish-Turkish treaty

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Carrol Benner Kindel

a guest post by Carrol Benner Kindel Introduction The subject manuscript, page 237 of Folger MS V.b.303, is contained within a “collection of political and parliamentary documents” compiled between the middle of the 16th and middle of the 17th centuries.…

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