Here are three things to remember about Henry Clay Folger on his 164th birthday, June 18, 2021.
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THE POWER OF A POSTCARD:
Traditional Minangkabau House in Sumatra, Indonesia
The Minangkabau region in west Sumatra, Indonesia as depicted in sepia postcards of the 1930s and evoking author Rusli Amran.
The Bard’s Birthday
The Bard Will was born on the same day he died—and no one knows for sure on what day he was born. No birth certificate has been found for William Shakespeare. The plaque underneath is a baptism...
The Omni-Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia
George Washington visited Hot Springs, Va. on horseback in 1755 on an inspection tour of forts as protection against Indian attacks. The Homestead spa and resort was founded in 1766, a decade before...
Travel to England by Henry and Emily Folger, 1903 – 1923
Henry Folger was unlike his executive colleagues at the Standard Oil Company in New York who vacationed in Florida and California or cruised the Mediterranean. He took his wife and collecting...
Capt. Peter Strickland 1837–1921
Philatelic Covers of the 1st U.S. Consul to Senegal
To Mark the Centennial
For a quarter of a century––from 1880 to 1905––shipmaster Peter Strickland lived on Gorée Island in Senegal while toiling in the merchant marine.
First Folio, the book that gave us Shakespeare: On tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2016
UPDATED with a NEWS FLASHJohns Hopkins University Press released Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger on the Ides of March in 2014, the 450th anniversary of the Bard’s birth. ...
Shakespeare Collector Henry Clay Folger and President Calvin Coolidge
Shakespeare collector Henry Clay Folger and President Calvin Coolidge were 6th cousins, once removed; surely, they never knew it. They both graduated with a B. A. degree from Amherst College in...
Salvadoran Postcards & Libraries
Where were you for Y2K, at the change of millennia from 1999 to 2000? I was in El Salvador as deputy leader of the economic growth strategic team at USAID/San Salvador in El Salvador, Central...
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