Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • The Great Detective Mystery Game

    July 21, 2011

    Starring the one and only Charlie Chan . THE GREAT CHARLIE CHAN DETECTIVE MYSTERY GAME . Springfield: Milton Bradley Company, 1937. Complete with all its...
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    Dream Laurey

    July 18, 2011

    Bambi Linn in the original production of Oklahoma! (1943)
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    Multitudes

    July 5, 2011

    Multitudes: A Celebration of the Yale Collection of American Literature, 1911–2011 July 8 through October 1, 2011 Do I contradict myself? Very well then...

  • La Revista

    June 24, 2011

    La Revista (sample pages from issue 1:1, 1903) A Spanish-language weekly magazine published in Tampa, Florida, from 1903-1905, featuring poetry, fiction, and...
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    Nathalie et Lucien

    June 15, 2011

    Two postcards from the papers of Natalie Paley , May 1930.

  • To Do

    June 7, 2011

    To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays , by Gertrude Stein; with an introduction by Beinecke Library curator Timothy Young. Gertrude Stein’s Silly...