This month’s Crocodile mystery is about an engraving. What do you think are the wavy lines on this print?… Continue Reading
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This month’s crocodile mystery is an example of one of our favorite things: Shakespeare portraits!
What kind of item is this portrait of Shakespeare from, and what is significant about the item?… Continue Reading
Happy Boxing Day! We’ve brought you another crocodile mystery to open with your holiday goodies. This month’s mystery comes in two forms and appears in two places. Tell us, if you would, what these mysterious numbers suggest to you?
As usual, leave your thoughts and guesses in the comments below and we’ll be back in the new year with an answer.… Continue Reading
For December’s Crocodile Mystery, tell us, if you will, what’s happening in the images below. Leave your guess in the comments and we’ll be back next week with the answer!
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For November’s Crocodile Mystery, tell us, if you will, what’s going on in the image below.
Leave your guess in the comments and we’ll be back next week with the answer!… Continue Reading
This month’s Crocodile Mystery is a caption contest:
Option A: Provide a factually accurate title for this portrait.
Option B: Provide an amusingly inaccurate title for this portrait.
Option C: Provide both A and B.… Continue Reading
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
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
