Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Re-Writing Freud

    February 28, 2011

    Simon Morris, artist, and Christine Morris, creative technologist, Re-Writing Freud , 2005; iPhone / iPad app edition, 2011. The iPad app edition of Re-Writing...
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    Snobbery and Decay

    February 23, 2011

    Masquerade ball : Rustic tableau, Paris, 1931 A view of Lake Ontario with a broken yacht, men and railroad tracks against the shoreline. undated.

  • MARVELous Beinecke

    February 18, 2011

    Pages from Paul Tobin and Ig Guara, Marvel Adventures: Black Widow and The Avengers , #18, featuring the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Beinecke...
  • Fanny and Emil carving heart in tree.

    Valentine

    February 14, 2011

    [Fanny and Emil carving heart in tree]. Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, trekked with his wife Fanny through the national parks and forests of California,...
  • Psychoanalysis, NY: Tiny Tot Comics, c1955, volume 1

    Searching for Peace of Mind?

    February 13, 2011

    Psychoanalysis, NY: Tiny Tot Comics, c1955, volumes 1-4 (call number: Za Zp956); featured in the Beinecke Library’s current exhibition: Psyche & Muse...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    The Sun-Cure

    February 8, 2011

    A view of a tuberculosis sanitarium for children at Groslay (Northern France) during World War I. From the Edith Wharton Papers .
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Cart | Horse

    February 1, 2011

    Mexican cart in the courtyard or garden of the “Ramona” house in San Diego. Photograph taken by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, 1929 Sept. One horse picketed...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Minds of Winter

    January 28, 2011

    Prisoners with snow sculpture, Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, circa 1930-1938 Car trapped in snow Snow Flake Bracelet by Erica Van...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Ogden Nash on Gertrude Stein

    January 24, 2011

    Ogden Nash’s “They Don’t Speak English in Paris”, ca. 1935, with his reactions to the increasing fame and acceptance of Gertrude Stein’s...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    The Sea-mans doleful Farewel

    January 19, 2011

    The seamans doleful farewel or, The Greenwitch lovers mournful departure : see here the pattern of true love, which absence cannot stain : and nothing shall...