Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • A label for a brand of chocolate sold in France in the middle of the 19th century.

    Choco-Choc

    September 29, 2011

    A group of labels for brands of chocolate sold in France in the middle of the 19th century.
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    How are Multitides?

    September 23, 2011

    EXHIBITION CLOSING PARTY How is a Book? and Multitudes: A Celebration of the Yale Collection of American Literature, 1911 – 2011 Friday, September 23, 2011 at...
  • An album of photographs showing the Ovaltine manufacturing plant in King’s Langley in Herfordshire, England

    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...
  • The Phenakistastcope or Magic Disc Edinburgh: Published by Forrester & Nichol, Lithographers, 10 George Street, & John Dunn, option 50 Hanover Square. [1832-1833].

    Phenakistiscope

    September 15, 2011

    The Phenakistastcope or Magic Disc Edinburgh: Published by Forrester & Nichol, Lithographers, 10 George Street, & John Dunn, option 50 Hanover Square...
  • Jonathan Williams, [Polaroid photo of cat in window], undated. By Permission of Jargon Books/Jonathan Williams Estate.

    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...
  • Lawrence Langner, Fania Marinoff (Mrs. Carl Van Vechten), Eugene O’Neill , Armina Marshall (Mrs. Langner) (ZA Van Vechten)

    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...