Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.

  • Party

    February 22, 2021

    Party for Grace and James Weldon Johnson … Studio of Mr. Charles Studin. Drawing by Aaron Douglas. [Invitation]...

  • Road Show at Beinecke Library

    February 3, 2021

    In spring 2021, the Yale Collection of American Literature at Beinecke Library and the Public Humanities Program will collaborate to present a graduate workshop focused on the Library’s exhibition, Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature.

  • Ancient and Modern

    January 9, 2021

    Collage pages from H.D.’s scrapbook combining classical figures with photographs of H.D. and friends. ( YCAL MSS 24, Folder 1430)
  • Drawing of fish bottle by Marianne Moore

    Go Fish!

    January 8, 2021

    Recently, we looked at games to play inside and outside. Today, let's go on an angling excursion.

  • Robert Bolick on Erica Van Horn

    January 4, 2021

    Writer and artist Erica Van Horn is featured by curator Robert Bolick in his Books on Books series: Books on Books: Erica Van Horn . Bolick considers works...

  • Road Show: An airplane is made for writers

    December 19, 2020

    An airplane is made for writers: Gertrude Stein’s First Flight, November 7, 1934 -- a vignette from the exhibition Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature