Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • Opened by Censor

    September 30, 2010

    A souvenir album, enhanced by printed slips, photographs, and seating charts, of R. Grugeon’s service with the Postal Censorship Office in the United...
  • Yale Papyrus Collection: Love Charm

    September 27, 2010

    Over 6000 individual items make up the Yale Papyrus Collection. From Aramaic to Syriac; From Pharaonic to Modern; From Akanthon Polis to Theadelphia, the...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    "You are the merriest undone Man in Europe"

    September 21, 2010

    A quotation written out by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe originally from “Rule a Wife and Have a Wife” a comedy by John Fletcher first performed in 1624 and...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Cupid & Psyche 1507

    September 16, 2010

    Correggio, Niccolo da, 1450-1508. Opere del illustre & excellentissimo signor Nicolo da Corregia intitulate la Psyche & la Aurora. Stampata in Venetia...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Sylvia

    September 13, 2010

    A portrait of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies from the Llewelyn Davies Family papers.
  • Players on a basketball team, Havana, Cuba, 1931.

    Basketball at Club Atenas

    September 9, 2010

    Players on a basketball team, Havana, Cuba, 1931. (From the Langston Hughes Papers, JWJ MSS 26 )
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    The Ninth month

    September 7, 2010

    “The sun shines high above The sounds of laughter The birds swoop down upon The crosses of old grey churches We say that we’re in love While secretly wishing...
  • American Lawn

    September 2, 2010

  • Works of Industry of All Nations

    August 30, 2010

    A scrapbook, compiled by William Paxon, an exhibitor at The Great Exhibition of 1851 (The Crystal Palace Exhibition). In addition to flyers and cards gathered...
  • A handmade magazine by Gelett Burgess, created for his crush, Agnes Bouchard, while living in London in 1898.

    The Agnes Magazine

    August 26, 2010

    A handmade magazine by Gelett Burgess, created for his crush, Agnes Bouchard, while living in London in 1898.