Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • The key card for the game of: Robert le Diable: Jeu des Mariages.

    Hot Stuff

    January 14, 2011

    The key card for the game of: Robert le Diable: Jeu des Mariages . France, circa 1820.
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    For our God is a consuming Fire.

    January 11, 2011

    A New-England Primer printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1764. The New-England primer enlarged. For the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which...
  • From an unidentified card game from France, circa 1860s.

    Q&A

    January 3, 2011

    Simple question; complicated answer. From an unidentified card game from France, circa 1860s.
  • A broadside by Gabriele d'Annunzio, commemorating his withdrawal from the Free State of Fiumi on December 31, 1920.

    L'alalà funebre

    December 31, 2010

    A broadside by Gabriele d’Annunzio, commemorating his withdrawal from the Free State of Fiumi on December 31, 1920...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Hearts

    December 27, 2010

    The King and Queen of Hearts as judges; in The Nursery “Alice” (New York : Macmillan and Co., 1890), adapted from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s...
  • the tattooed lady (New York: New York Popular Pub. Co. [1886?])

    Facts relating to the only tattooed lady

    December 16, 2010

    Facts relating to the only tattooed lady : being a full and complete account of the life and adventures of this young lady, the only tattoed female in the...
  • An urgent plea from George Platt Lynes to Monroe Wheeler, on board the S.S. France, February 19, 1927.

    Radiotélégramme

    December 13, 2010

    An urgent plea from George Platt Lynes to Monroe Wheeler, on board the S.S. France, February 19, 1927. From the Glenway Wescott Papers .
  • Fedor Stepun, I. I. Fondaminskii, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin and I. P. Demidov - from the Fedor Stepun Papers.

    Four on a Bench

    December 6, 2010

    Fedor Stepun, I. I. Fondaminskii, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin and I. P. Demidov - from the F edor Stepun Papers .