The latest edition of Beinecke Illuminated, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s newsletter, is hot off the presses. 

This issue highlights some fascinating additions to our collections, including an unmatched collection of nineteenth-century American photography. A recent visiting fellow describes her research in the Western Americana Collection. Poet Nathaniel Mackey, the 2015 winner of the prestigious Bollingen Prize for American Poetry administered by the library, discusses his work. A photo essay documents our efforts to prepare the library’s iconic Wall Street building for renovation and open a temporary reading room in Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library.

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