Folger’s Digital Image Collection
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Dan Sayre Groesbeck. Edna May Oliver as the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet. Watercolor, ca. 1936.
The Folger’s Digital Image Collection offers online access to over 21,000 images from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, art, and more. Images are available in high resolution and users can show multiple images side-by-side, zoom in and out to see fine detail, view cataloging information when available, export thumbnails, and construct permanent URLs linking back to their favorite items or searches.
Through the Digital Image Collection, you can:
- Compare 19th-century productions of Shakespeare with today’s through historic photographs and promptbooks
- Look at letters written by Queen Elizabeth I
- Examine rare paintings in “up close and personal” detail
- Read diary entries from over 200 years ago
- and much more
You can use your browser or download an application for Windows or Mac to access this large collection. There is no substitute for this library of images of rare Shakespeare-related documents if you are researching. This historic catalogue is not only searchable, you can compare slides side-by-side in high resulution just like you were in a rare book room in a specialized library… which essentially you are.
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