Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

New Collection: 1920s Cartoons
May 14, 2014
The Yale Collection of American Literature has acquired a collection of humorous cartoons by an unidentified American artist, signed "F.G." or "J.G.," that feature a protagonist, Jerry, probably the alter ego of the artist, and his pursuit of women, as well as drinking alcohol, automobiles, and other subjects, circa 1926.
The Stellameter by Benson May
May 9, 2014

The Stellameter by Benson May Project description: Students in Professor Helfand’s art class were given the final project of creating a cyanometer, or a...
UNTITLED by Evelyn Davis
May 7, 2014

Created in Professor Jessica Helfand’s spring 2014 freshman seminar about the color Blue, Evelyn Davis’s Untitled is a modern-day conception of...
WIND by Nate Sievert
May 5, 2014

Produced by by Nate Sievert, Y’17, in Professor Jessica Helfand’s spring 2014 freshman seminar about the color Blue, “Wind” is an experimental film that...
New Collection: Bell Scrapbook
May 5, 2014
The volume includes narrative about the trip, as well as circa 130 mounted photographic prints, circa 145 newspaper clippings and printed items, and 15 booklets and pamphlets tipped in or laid in.
Beinecke Bucket List 2014
May 1, 2014

Ten fascinating books, manuscripts, collections…to see before you graduate. This list incorporates and expands on our 2013 Beinecke Bucket List . Bible,...
WALDEN by Ana Maria Gomez Lopez
May 1, 2014

New work by Yale School of Art graduate student Ana Maria Gomez Lopez will be featured in Walden , an upcoming exhibition at the deCordova Museum exploring the...
New Acquisition: Darragh Park Sketchbooks & Artworks
April 21, 2014
The Darragh Park collection at Beinecke Library includes thirty-nine sketchbooks, one painting, and one drawing. The collection was the bequest of Darragh Park (Yale Class of 1961).
New Acquisition: Henry Martyn Hoyt Papers
April 21, 2014

American artist and poet Henry Martyn Hoyt enrolled at Yale University at age 16. After he graduated in 1907, Hoyt traveled in Europe, studied architecture at...
Beinecke Top Tens: Poetry outside of Books
April 5, 2014

Examples of publications combining poetry and unusual literary formats: Anna Banana, Mail Art Stamps, 1989-2005. YCAL MSS 254 (postage ptamps) Amiri Baraka, “...