{"id":21424,"date":"2023-07-04T15:15:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T14:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/?p=21424"},"modified":"2023-11-28T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T16:03:32","slug":"frogman-who-what-why-and-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/2023\/07\/04\/frogman-who-what-why-and-how\/","title":{"rendered":"FROGMAN! Who, What, Why, and How?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>(Spoiler: I don&#8217;t answer any of these questions)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My role at Edge Hill University\u2019s Archive started early 2022 as a researcher. I would use the index cards allocated to students that go as far back as the first cohort in 1885 and investigate their lives using other records in the archive and websites such as FindMyPast, Ancestry, and the British Newspaper Archive. We have uncovered stories such as missionaries in India, an early student that went on to become a pioneering education reformer, and a student who has become infamous in the archive after we found a poem detailing a rebellious midnight feast before the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Jessie-Reid-Crosbie-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"753\" height=\"503\" data-id=\"21428\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Jessie-Reid-Crosbie-2.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photograph of a family sitting around a dinner table full of food. On the left of the table is a young girl with blonde hair with two elderly ladies seated behind her. At the back of the table is a middle aged woman with dark hair, and on the right side of the table are two young girls with dark hair. \" class=\"wp-image-21428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Jessie-Reid-Crosbie-2.jpg 753w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Jessie-Reid-Crosbie-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jessie Reid Crosbie (far left), a teacher and education reformer, who pioneered what would become Parent-Teacher Associations. <br>(Photo courtesy of Christine Mougne)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Annie-Williams-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"536\" height=\"569\" data-id=\"21429\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Annie-Williams-1.png\" alt=\"A black and white drawing of a woman in a Victorian style dress with a high neck and voluminous sleeves. She has a brooch at her neck and is wearing round glasses. \" class=\"wp-image-21429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Annie-Williams-1.png 536w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Annie-Williams-1-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Annie Williams, an early student at Edge Hill College who went to Assam, India, as a missionary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>However, even with the thrill of uncovering mysteries of the past, I also have an undeniable curiosity of the unanswered questions we have in the archive; we have two grainy black and white photographs of a car being towed in Southport; there are countless mentions of mysterious \u2018Rockets\u2019 in the early college magazines; we have a pair of clogs; there are student theses about trampolining and comic book text bubbles; we have an old lantern that\u2019s survived from the original college in Liverpool; a book of watercolour paintings of the University in the 1950s by the enigmatic E.G\u2026 But out of all these weird and wonderful items in the archive, the thing that has puzzled me the most is the one and only \u201cFrogman\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Frogman? Where does he come from?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t quite remember when our Frogman journey begins, but he soon became a recurring running joke amongst archive staff. I would often say that Frogman is my favourite thing in the archive (a statement that worryingly becomes truer each day). We\u2019ve even joked about me getting a Frogman tattoo (don\u2019t tempt me). I suppose our first Frogman question was \u2018Why?\u2019. I think it\u2019s at this point you may need some context\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the archive, we have an 19<sup>th<\/sup> century scrapbook. The scrapbook is incredibly old, now without a spine, and the paper flakes at its edges. It\u2019s front and back covers have a crimson and black marbled design. The pages have become orange over time and darkened towards their edges \u2013 a truly well-thumbed artefact. It\u2019s like when you were young and you would tea-stain paper to make it look old\u2026 only this is the real deal, no tea needed! Colourful images have been cut out and pasted into each page. Among the images are bunches of multicoloured flowers, several Father Christmases (one of them doing a sort of Kubrick-stare!), birds in nests, musical instruments, horses and children playing snooker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Scrapbook-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"294\" height=\"355\" data-id=\"21431\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Scrapbook-1.png\" alt=\"A page from a 19th Century scrapbook whose pages have become darkened and ripped towards the edges. There is a colourful image in the centre of the page of a child in a boat with two other children stood on the shore. This image is encircled by twelve other smaller colourful images including the head of a Santa, a cherub, a moth and a girl in a pink dress. All of the images are hand drawn and Victorian in appearance.\" class=\"wp-image-21431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Scrapbook-1.png 294w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Scrapbook-1-248x300.png 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A page from the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century scrapbook.<br>Can you find \u2018Scary Santa\u2019?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Scrapbook-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"297\" height=\"355\" data-id=\"21432\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Scrapbook-2.png\" alt=\"A page from a 19th Century scrapbook whose pages have become darkened and ripped towards the edges. There is a colourful image in the centre of the page of a blue bird in flight with a garland of leaves on its right hand side. This image is encircled by nine other smaller, colourful images. These images include a brown owl, a red bird in a nest and a variety of flowers. All of the images are hand drawn and Victorian in appearance. \" class=\"wp-image-21432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Scrapbook-2.png 297w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Scrapbook-2-251x300.png 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A page from the 19th Century scrapbook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And then, in typical BBC2 anthology show fashion (I hope someone gets this reference), you turn to page No. 9. At the bottom centre of the page, there is a vivid turquoise illustration of a frog with its arms and legs outstretched as if suspended mid-air. The frog&#8217;s polka dot underwear isn\u2019t the weirdest part when you pan up to notice he has the head of a moustachioed man. I give you\u2026 Frogman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original physical image of Frogman in the scrapbook is quite small. However, thanks to the powers of digitisation, we can zoom into the image and take a closer look. Frogmanness aside, the way he\u2019s been drawn makes him stand out from the rest of the gentle, calming, sentimental illustrations that surround him. He\u2019s very sketchy, and the shadowed parts of him under his arms, beside his neck, and on his feet have all been drawn quite roughly and haphazardly, not at all in the neat fashion seen in the beside image of galloping horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So, once again, \u2018<em>Why<\/em>?&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, when the entire scrapbook is filled with Victorian tweeness (scary Santas aside), would the scrapbooker decide to grant us with Frogman? Was this a trend amongst scrapbookers? Was it stuck in against the owners will? Frogman is against a brown rectangle of paper, so are we to assume there is something beneath him? Has he been used to cover something up? What is Frogman hiding? But what would be so embarrassing that warranted using a human\/amphibian hybrid to cover it up? I dare not see what\u2019s beneath\u2026 for one, it\u2019s against archive guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zooming in closer, we began uncovering even more Frogman mythology, and discover he isn\u2019t mid-air at all! In fact, the horizontal line that runs through both wrists and across half his face leads us to believe he is submerged underwater. There are even hints of seaweed on either side and underneath him. Therefore, his shocked position could be one of panic as he tries to reach the surface! Thankfully, the waters appear to be shallow for him as the artist has kindly included a shadow beneath him, suggesting a swamp or riverbed. And so, another question is sparked: Why doesn\u2019t he just stand up? I begin to wonder if he\u2019s just doing it all for attention\u2026 Well, it\u2019s clearly worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then we zoom in once more and there are five lines coming from his mouth. He is calling out for something. \u2018Help\u2019? \u2018Hello\u2019? \u2018Ribbit\u2019? Frogman is in trouble!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is this all getting a bit silly? Have I lost you? Can you tell I\u2019m an EHU Creative Writing postgraduate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">But who is Frogman?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On a more serious note, we began questioning whether the head of Frogman isn\u2019t fictitious, but rather of a real person. Is this, instead of a whimsical comic illustration, a serious satire of some political figure from the past? (It was here that I postponed my tattoo booking\u2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was at this point we contacted Edge Hill University\u2019s Nineteenth Century Studies academics to ask if they could shine a light on our archival mystery. Dr Laura Eastlake responded saying it could relate to Victorian anthropomorphism, the tradition of giving animals or objects human characteristics. She also mentioned works such as <em>The Wind in the Willows <\/em>and weird Victorian Christmas cards (a rabbit hole I advise you all to fall down at some point), both of which use anthropomorphised frogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Christmas-card.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"255\" data-id=\"21433\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Christmas-card.jpg\" alt=\"A Victorian Christmas card which appears to be hand-drawn. In the centre front of the card there is a green frog holding a beetle, as if in the middle of a dance. Behind this and to the right is a green insect with its arms aloft, holding a tambourine above its head. In the background of the scene, flying insects are visible. In the bottom left corner there is decorative font that reads May Christmas be merry.\" class=\"wp-image-21433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Christmas-card.jpg 413w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Christmas-card-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Victorian Christmas card featuring the classic festive tradition of dancing frogs and beetles and tambourine-yielding insects.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Bob Nicholson thought Frogman looked late-Victorian or even Edwardian. He also wondered if it is meant to be a caricature of somebody specific, but who that person is he couldn\u2019t pin down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then Dr Andy McInnes responds with a theory that could be our missing jigsaw piece. He theorised that Frogman\u2019s head is science-fiction writer H. G. Wells, and the illustration is reference to one of his most famous works, <em>The Island of Dr Moreau<\/em>, in which a mad scientist creates human\/animal hybrids. Could this be what Frogman is, a comment on a writer being intwined with the horrors of their own work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura\u2019s response to Andy took this idea further, as she recalls an underwater story by Wells, <em>In the Abyss<\/em>, which features frog people. Laura also mentions the tradition of images of scientists\/writers hybridised with their animal subjects. For example, this image of Darwin\u2019s head on the body of an ape:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Darwin-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"466\" height=\"628\" data-id=\"21437\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Darwin-1.png\" alt=\"A black and white sketch of an ape with some trees visible in the background. However, the head of the gorilla has been replaced with Charles Darwin's head, complete with bushy eyebrows and beard. \" class=\"wp-image-21437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Darwin-1.png 466w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Darwin-1-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A sketch of an ape with Charles Darwin&#8217;s head.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/H.G.Wells_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"521\" height=\"648\" data-id=\"21436\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/H.G.Wells_.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photograph of Victorian author H.G. Wells.  All that is visible are his head and upper shoulders. His head is slightly angled to the left, and he is looking towards the camera. He has dark hair and his eyebrows and moustache are bushy. He is wearing a dark jacket, a white shirt with a polka dot bow tie. \" class=\"wp-image-21436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/H.G.Wells_.jpg 521w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/H.G.Wells_-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">H.G. Wells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before I finish, I think it\u2019s important to say that the archive is open to all. If you\u2019re wondering how and if it can be of use to your studies as a research resource, if you\u2019re generally interested about Archives as a potential career, or if you\u2019re just interested in the hidden gems we have here, don\u2019t hesitate to book an appointment and pop in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, where does all this leave us? Well, other than my dreams for Frogman merch (tote bags, pins, stationary, the lot) not that far from the many questions included in the title for this article. Thanks to EHU19, however, we may have answered \u2018What\u2019 Frogman is, but nothing is set in stone yet. I think Frogman\u2019s mystery is quite exciting, though. The Frogman fandom (yes, I just said that), can grow and spread its\u2026 webbed feet? And we can enjoy our many questions even if the answers don\u2019t find us. I was going to finish this article with a thoughtful final line like \u2018Questions can be more important than answers\u2026\u2019, but really, when it comes down to it, this has been a 1,400-word article about a bonkers illustration in an 19<sup>th<\/sup> century scrapbook. I think that\u2019s quite funny.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guess who?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Frogman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Frogman-1024x495.jpg\" alt=\"A page from a 19th Century scrapbook, with pages that have faded to a light brown. On the left of the page is a small, colourful image of a child riding a donkey. On the left of the page is a colourful image of an equal size which depicts two horses, one holding a jockey in a red jacket, the other without a jockey. To the right of the horse, a jockey is on the floor, seemingly having fallen off his horse. However, in the centre of the page is a turquoise illustration of Frogman, a frog with its arms and legs outstretched as if suspended mid-air, with the head of a moustachioed man and wearing he polka dot underwear. \" class=\"wp-image-21438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Frogman-1024x495.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Frogman-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Frogman-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/Frogman.jpg 1262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frogman himself!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/jack-bennett1080x1080-1024x1024-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/jack-bennett1080x1080-1024x1024-1.png\" alt=\"A photograph featuring the head and upper body of a man with glasses, dark hair and a beard. He is wearing a dark shirt with brown details. The background is a beige door and gold wallpaper. \" class=\"wp-image-21455\" width=\"211\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/jack-bennett1080x1080-1024x1024-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/jack-bennett1080x1080-1024x1024-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/jack-bennett1080x1080-1024x1024-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/jack-bennett1080x1080-1024x1024-1-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Jack Bennett<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack is a EHU Creative Writing postgraduate currently working as an Archive Project Assistant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learn more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more about our archive you can visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/departments\/support\/ls\/edge-hill-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">webpage<\/a> or browse their collections <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.edgehill.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Spoiler: I don&#8217;t answer any of these questions) My role at Edge Hill University\u2019s Archive started early 2022 as a researcher. 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