Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

Summer Palace
March 10, 2012

Sacred Bridge, Summer Palace, Nikko [from the album “Photos by Russell J. and Blanche C. Matthias of their 1917 trip to the Far East, handcolored by Blanche...
Birthplace
February 26, 2012

Birthplace of Hart Crane, Garrettsville, Ohio. Photographed by John S. Baker, March, 1967 Hart Crane collection, 1910-1972; YCAL MSS 37
Petroglyph Hand
February 19, 2012

Canyon de Chelly, photograph by Richard Erdoes. From the Richard Erdoes papers, WA MSS S-2609.
Last Known Address
February 12, 2012

From the Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O’Keeffe Archive (from Lenore Tawney) *** From the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers (from Picasso) *** From...
New from Beinecke Collections
February 9, 2012

In the 1950s, Yale University Press published a number of Gertrude Stein’s posthumous works, among them her incomparable Stanzas in Meditation . Since...
Charles Dickens @ 200
February 7, 2012

Celebrate Dickens’ birthday by viewing Dickens-related materials in Yale collections, including the Gimbel Dickens Collection at the Beinecke Library: http://...
Exhibition Opening
February 7, 2012

Please join us next Wednesday, February 15, at 4:30 pm on the Beinecke Library mezzanine for the opening of the Beinecke’s spring exhibition, “Remembering...
Poster Portraits
February 6, 2012

Two Poster Portraits by Charles Demuth Arthur Dove *** John Marin
Janes
January 31, 2012

Photographs of women named Jane in the Yale Collection of American Literature *** Jane Bowles, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1951 *** Jane Heap,...
The Ends of the Book
January 12, 2012

PSNH: The Ends of the Book: Authors, Readers, Public Spaces A lecture by Matthew Stadler, founder of Publication Studio, on the occasion of Publication Studio...