Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

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...
The Lantern part 2 - History of John Carty
June 1, 2011

An installment of a melodrama by Frederic Gerrish, the 8-year-old editor of The Lantern of Portland, Maine, 1853.
The Lantern - part 1
May 27, 2011

Pages from issues of handmade juvenile publications, The Lantern , created by 8-year-old Frederic Gerrish of Portland, Maine, 1853-1859. Tune in again later...
Celebrating Stieglitz & O'Keeffe
May 24, 2011

Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 4:00 pm Please join us for a reception at the Beinecke to celebrate several exciting Library-sponsored projects drawing on materials...
Framing in Good Taste
May 18, 2011

A bill made out to Alfred Stieglitz for materials and framing of paintings by John Marin. From the Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia OKeeffe archive .
F is for "Flying Squirrel"
May 12, 2011

Maud and Miska Petersham, sketches for “An American ABC” (UNCAT MSS Vault 764).
Dress
May 2, 2011

Fragment of the wedding dress of Sarah Pierpont Edwards, from the Jonathan Edwards Papers: GEN MSS 151 . Featured on the cover of Susan Howe’s book That...
For Grace
April 29, 2011

From: Frank O’Hara, Meditations In An Emergency, N. Y.: Grove Press, (1957); copy 4 , from the special edition of fifteen copies containing an original drawing...
Cliff House
April 26, 2011

The Cliff House, San Francisco, California, circa 1902. During the Day … and at Night...