Yale Collection of American Literature

From the Katherine S. Dreier papers / Societe Anonyme archive Jean Arp Max Ernst

"Rose is a Rose is a Rose..." a wax seal for embossing envelopes, from the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers, .

From the Beinecke Digital Images Online database:  http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/   Title Key to private, sound-proof room in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Author Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Place of origin n.p. Date undated Physical Description 1 object. 9 cm. Genre/Form Artifacts

Densmore, Yost & Co., The type-writer! : a machine to supersede the pen. New York : Densmore, Yost & co., [1875?]  

From the Beinecke Digital Image database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex  

From a series of photographs gathered by Langston Hughes of the Club Atenas in Havana, Cuba, 1931. [More photos can be found in the Beinecke Digital Image database (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/). Search for the keywords "hughes cuba". [These calm, enigmatic scenes are also perfect to mark the one year anniversary of the launch of Room 26 - showing the type of curious intriguingly and beautiful material we look for in our collections.]

A postcard from the Langston Hughes Papers, ca. 1933.