Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

La famille quatre cents coups A surrealist artist's book by Claude Roy [1954] Cover stars: A layout with overlay: and without:

Painted card sent to art dealer Katharine Kuh from George and Juliet Kepes. More painted cards from the Katherine Kuh papers can be viewed by searching the Beinecke's Digital Library: Beinecke Digital Library; a record for the Katharine Kuh papers is available on line: YCAL MSS 15 Katharine Kuh Papers.

 The Ballad of the Brown King, a Christmas Cantata, words by Langston Huges and music by Margaret Bonds

Stacey Grimaldi, The Toilet, London, 1821. The original issue of a book form that was popular in England and then republished in the United States in the 1820s. A set of virtues is taught using illustrations of items found on a lady's dressing table (the "toilet" of the title), each revealed with the lift of a delicate flap. This copy was the property of the author.

Brochure for appearance of Barnum & Bailey's show in Paris, 1901-1902, including chariot races with four horse teams.

from The Situationist Times #2 (1962)

Collage pages from H.D.'s scrapbook combining classical figures with photographs of H.D. and friends. (YCAL MSS 24, Folder 1430)