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Folger Shakespeare Library

LC control no.n 50000657
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Corporate name headingFolger Shakespeare Library
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Variant(s)Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
See alsoShakespeare Theatre at the Folger
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Founder: Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930
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Founder: Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936
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Beginning date1932
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedWashington (D.C.)
Field of activityShakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Found inPhone call to Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger administrative offices, 5/16/91 (Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger is an independent organization working in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library)
Folger Shakespeare Library, WWW home page, viewed Nov. 16, 2016: About the Folger (Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC ... opened in 1932, as gift to the American people from founders Henry and Emily Folger)
Wikipedia, viewed Nov. 16, 2016 (The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500-1750). ... The library is privately endowed and administered by the Trustees of Amherst College. The library building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.)