Detailed information about collection materials featured in the current exhibition, Psyche & Muse: Creative Entanglements with the Science of the Soul are now available online: Psyche & Muse online .

March 9, 2011

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature

Historic Dress

Photographs of friends and family from the papers of poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) and related archives; posted in honor of the Beinecke Library's first annual staff H.D. & Co. Costume Party.

March 7, 2011

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, Modern General Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature

Re-Writing Freud

Simon Morris, artist, and Christine Morris, creative technologist, Re-Writing Freud, 2005; iPhone / iPad app edition, 2011.

February 28, 2011

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection

Snobbery and Decay

Masquerade ball : Rustic tableau, Paris, 1931 A view of Lake Ontario with a broken yacht, men and railroad tracks against the shoreline. undated.

February 23, 2011

Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, ball, broken, lake, masquerade, ontario, paris, party, rustic, tableau, yacht

MARVELous Beinecke

Pages from Paul Tobin and Ig Guara, Marvel Adventures: Black Widow and The Avengers, #18, featuring the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Beinecke MS 408 (the Voynich Manuscript). Please note: the generic librarian featured should not be confused with Beinecke Library Early Modern Collections Curator Kathryn James.

February 18, 2011

Beinecke Library

Valentine

[Fanny and Emil carving heart in tree]. Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, trekked with his wife Fanny through the national parks and forests of California, Oregon, and Washington from the 1910s through the early 1930s. Call number: WA Photos 240.

February 14, 2011

Beinecke Library