Here is another ghostly residue for you to identify, for this month’s Crocodile Mystery:
As always, leave your thoughts and guesses in the comments, and come back next week to find out the answer.… Continue Reading
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Welcome to the November Crocodile Mystery!
Take a look at the image below and tell us, if you can, what it is and where it appears in our collection?
As always, leave your thoughts and ideas in the comments below, and check back next week for a more detailed post!
Edit: Photo software seems to be trying to make this mystery even more complicated than it already is; please note that if you click on the image for a larger version, that image is (for some reason I cannot suss out) displaying upside down.… Continue Reading
A new crocodile mystery for a new month! Can you tell us what this is?
As always, please comment with your thoughts and guesses about our mystery image, and we’ll be back next week with the answer!… Continue Reading
Ready for September? We are, with a new crocodile mystery for you to take a stab at!
What’s going on with this book? Why does some of the text on the cover appear to be faded?
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Amanda Herbert recently became an Assistant Director at the Folger Institute, where she directs each aspect of the Folger fellowships program, from managing the applications process to fostering a sense of scholarly community. As part of the Folger Institute team, she’s also involved in current and future digital humanities (DH) initiatives. She has a PhD in history and her first book, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain (Yale University Press, 2014), won the Best Book prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.… Continue Reading
As July rapidly draws to a close, we have a pretty new puzzle for readers to ponder.
This month’s mystery is about the picture on this paper cover: what is the image about and why is it on this cover?
As always, leave your thoughts and guesses in the comments, and we’ll be back next week with the answer.… Continue Reading
This month’s mystery could have many different answers, but there’s one in particular we’re looking for. The question is simple: why is this binding interesting?
Any ideas? Please share your answers in the comments, and check back next week to find out if any of them match the answer we have in mind.… Continue Reading
It’s the last day of the month, and our intrepid readers know what that means: mystery time!
So for this month, we ask: why on earth would someone make a jumble of pictures of everyday items like this? And why all the numbers?
As always, comment here with your thoughts and guesses, and we’ll be back next week with an explanation.… Continue Reading
Here’s a mystery of the Crocodile manner for May. The text shown in this image is one piece of a larger whole, but the question is what is it and how does it relate to the whole?
As always, post your comments and thoughts below. We’ll be back with clarifying information next week.… Continue Reading
Welcome to our April crocodile mystery! So tell us, dear readers, why this scrap of paper is in our collection, and what it might be?… Continue Reading
