Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

Research in Beinecke Library Collections: Photographic Memory Workshop – Graduate Student Working Group 2011-2012

Pages from Elizabeth Peabody's Universal History: Arranged to Illustrate Bem's Charts of Chronology. New York: Pub. for the author by Sheldon and Co, 1859. A system for charting historical events on a grid (representing historical periods, arranged chronologically); squares, divided into 9 parts each, to represent distinct categories of historical events; and colors, to show different "Nations".

Four volumes of clippings tracing the first 10 years of the creation and promotion of Volapük, a constructed language claimed to have been divinely given to Johann Schleyer, a German Priest.

"America's Finest Femme- Mimics" publicity fan from the Jewel Box Lounge, The Most Talked About Nite Club in the Midwest (Kansas City, MO, undated).

Lawrence Langner, Fania Marinoff (Mrs. Carl Van Vechten), Eugene O'Neill , Armina Marshall (Mrs. Langner) (ZA Van Vechten) ***

Green Apples (bronze statue) by Augusta Savage

Selection of images of rodeo riders from Beinecke collections. Many more in: WA Photos 314 and WA Photos 58