We are devastated to announce that Betsy Walsh, our beloved head of reader services here at the Folger, passed away on Friday, September 22, 2017.
Betsy was an inseparable part of the Folger—indeed, for many of us, she was the embodiment of the Folger Reading Room. She worked here for 43 years—about half of the Folger’s existence since it opened in 1932.… Continue Reading
Posts By: The Collation
For this month’s Crocodile Mystery, tell us, if you will, what the image below depicts.
Leave your thoughts in the comments below, and we’ll be back next week with the answer!… Continue Reading
We’re in the heat of summer (at least here in Washington D.C.) as we approach the end of July. So to help everyone cool off (or at least provide a distraction), we’ve pulled another Crocodile Mystery from our vaults. Tell us, if you would, what exactly is going on in this picture below:
As always, leave your thoughts and guesses in the comments below, and we’ll be back next week with the answer.… Continue Reading
For the July 2017 Crocodile Mystery, have a look at this detail from a printed play. What’s up with the strangely uneven tone of the page?
Check back next week to learn more….… Continue Reading
Welcome to the end of another month and another Crocodile Mystery. This month’s Crocodile is brought to you by Folger manuscripts! Here’s a detail from a bifolium that is part of a collection of papers described at the item-level in our finding aids. The collection is partly artificial, but the bifolium seems to be connected to other bifolia within the collection, even though their call numbers are not consecutive.… Continue Reading
For the Crocodile Mystery this month, peer into the handwriting of this manuscript and let us know what word or words you see and/or what they mean. Leave your thoughts and guesses as a reply in the Comments section.
Check back next week for the answer.… Continue Reading
As March draws to a close, spring has finally (mostly) sprung in Washington DC (we’ll not talk about our poor cherry blossoms). If the days are warming up where you are as well, contemplate this Crocodile Mystery while you enjoy the weather, and tell us what this image is:
As always, leave your thoughts and guesses in the comments and we’ll be back next week with the answer.… Continue Reading
The mystery this month isn’t about what the text is (these pages are excerpts from a Calvinist Bible in French printed in Geneva in 1588) but rather it’s about the paper. What is going on here?
Leave your thoughts and guesses in the comments and we’ll be back next week with more information.… Continue Reading
Welcome to February’s crocodile mystery! Here’s a close-up view of something from the vault:
What item is it from? What purpose does it serve?
Leave your thoughts and guesses in the comments and we’ll be back next week with the answer!… Continue Reading
For this month’s Crocodile Mystery, have a look at the handwriting and discoloration in this detail. What’s going on? Leave a reply in the Comments section to share your thoughts.… Continue Reading
