Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

Why is it called Ovaltine?
September 19, 2011

An album of photographs showing the Ovaltine manufacturing plant in King’s Langley in Herfordshire, England (A.Wander Ltd, London & King’s Langley. Views...
Phenakistiscope
September 15, 2011

The Phenakistastcope or Magic Disc Edinburgh: Published by Forrester & Nichol, Lithographers, 10 George Street, & John Dunn, option 50 Hanover Square...
Window Picture
September 9, 2011

Research in Beinecke Library Collections: Photographic Memory Workshop – Graduate Student Working Group 2011-2012 The Photographic Memory Workshop is pleased...
Visualizing History
September 2, 2011

Pages from Elizabeth Peabody’s Universal History: Arranged to Illustrate Bem’s Charts of Chronology . New York: Pub. for the author by Sheldon and...
The Rise and Fall of Volapük
August 29, 2011

Four volumes of clippings tracing the first 10 years of the creation and promotion of Volapük , a constructed language claimed to have been divinely given to...
Jewel Box
August 22, 2011

“America’s Finest Femme- Mimics” publicity fan from the Jewel Box Lounge, The Most Talked About Nite Club in the Midwest (Kansas City, MO, undated). The...
Day at the Beach
August 18, 2011

Lawrence Langner, Fania Marinoff (Mrs. Carl Van Vechten), Eugene O’Neill , Armina Marshall (Mrs. Langner) (ZA Van Vechten) *** Stieglitz family (YCAL MSS...
Green Apples
August 16, 2011

Green Apples (bronze statue) by Augusta Savage
Rodeo!
August 12, 2011

Selection of images of rodeo riders from Beinecke collections. Many more in: WA Photos 314 and WA Photos 58
Peter, Paul, and Mary
July 25, 2011

The Rev. Peter Jones, circa 1845. Paul Cezanne, undated. Mary Pickford, undated.