Beinecke Library

Announced on December 20, 2010 by Richard Levin in an email to the Yale community (excerpted below): It is with great pleasure that I write to announce the appointment of Edwin C. Schroeder as Librarian of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and Associate University Librarian.

A new exhibition and a new exhibition blog! Visit God Save the King: Music from the British Royal Court, 1770 – 1837 online and in-person, if you can. We would love to see you. For more events around this exhibition please visit our calendar.

This album of 616 photographs, assembled in 1876 from images in the collection of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, consists primarily of portraiture of male delegates to the United States with occasional images of women and children. The images were created for ethnographic portfolios of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England.

Photographer/publisher/gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) played an instrumental role in promoting photography as a fine art through his journal Camera Work and his gallery "Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession," later renamed 291. Flora Stieglitz Straus

Sioux girls as they appeared on their arrival at Carlisle barracks on the 5th of October 1879

Browse 300 engravings, watercolors, and illustrations drawn from books, archival collections, and artwork from the Beinecke Library's American and European collections. Portrait of a half-breed Cree girl, 1859

Browse a selection of 100 early American maps ranging from Illinois, circa 1822, Indian "localities" circa 1833, and a Map of the northern, or, New Eng