Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • The American H. D., by Annette Debo

    New Research from the Beinecke Collections

    May 10, 2012

    New from the University of Iowa Press: The American H. D ., by Annette Debo In The American H.D ., Annette Debo considers the significance of nation in the...
  • Gertrude Stein in the Luxembourg Gardens, 1907.

    Gertrude in repose

    April 26, 2012

    On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through June 3, 2012: The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde . Gertrude Stein in the...
  • A Yale buffet

    The Buffet

    April 18, 2012

    Here at Room 26, we tend to think of this blog, and Beinecke Library, and, well, even Yale, as a big buffet … with new items added every day! Think of...
  • Bookplate from H. D.'s library

    New Research in Beinecke Collections

    April 9, 2012

    (Re)Storing Happiness: Toward an Ecopoetic Reading of H.D.’s The Sword Went Out to Sea (Synthesis of a Dream), by Delia Alton, from Interdisciplinary Studies...
  • Some Scraps

    March 15, 2012