List of card catalogs

The Folger Shakespeare Library has several different series of card catalogs. None are currently being added to or maintained, but some contain records for material not (yet) described elsewhere (see "What can only be found through Folger card catalogs") and some provide access to material in ways the online catalog doesn't.

Printed books (includes atlases and maps)

1. Author, title, genre/form, and subject cards interfiled (this is by far the largest of the Folger card catalogs)
2. Chronological, by year:
   1. STC publications (texts printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland or in English elsewhere between 1475 and 1640
   2. Wing publications (texts in England, Scotland, and Ireland or in English elsewhere between 1641 and 1700)
   3. British 18th-century publications
   4. Continental publications to 1800
3. Continental printers to 1800, by name
4. Continental place of publication to 1800, by city
5. Former owners:
   1. By name
   2. By STC number (Harmsworth Collection only)

Art

Note that suites of engravings with engraved title pages were cataloged as printed books, and aren't found in the Art card catalog.

1. Drawings and watercolors:
   1. Artist, on photocopied cards in two 3-ring binders on top of the cabinets
   2. Subject on 3 x 5 cards cross-referenced to artists on photocopied cards in two 3-ring binders
2. Photographs: by subject
3. Prints: artist, title, genre/form, and subject interfiled
4. Chronological: pre-1700 prints only

Manuscripts

1. Author, title, genre/form, and subject cards interfiled
2. Chronological, by year
3. Books with manuscript notes
4. Former owners
5. Old numbering (Black Box, De Ricci numbers, other)

Book prices

Handpress era books containing indications of how much was paid for them

Costumes and props

1. Actor
2. Play/Character
3. Garment or object type

Extra-illustrated books

Books with prints, autographs, letters, etc., added to enhance the text (see Extra-illustrated books

First lines of poetry (print and manuscript)

1. English, pre-1701
2. English, post-1700
3. French
4. German
5. Italian
6. Latin
7. Spanish
8. Welsh

Folgeriana

Books and articles about the Folger

1. Author/Title
2. Chronological
3. Subject

Halliwell-Phillipps Scrapbooks

W.b. call number range only, not ART Vols. (see J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps)

Illustrations in books

By subject

1. in STC publications (texts printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland or in English elsewhere between 1475 and 1640
2. in Wing publications (texts printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland or in English elsewhere between 1641 and 1700 (very incomplete, see [1] for more)

Music (Single songs only)

By first line

Pamphlets (Historical and Political)

1. Chronological, within language
2. French

Playbills

By date and place only; no access by actors or plays

1. Chronological
2. Geographic (by city, then theater, then season)
3. Former owners

Promptbooks

1. Shakespeare
2. Non-Shakespeare
3. Chronological, by performance date
4. Former owners

Shakespeare Miscellany

Ephemera and offprints