Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

    Beinecke Top Tens gather (approximately) ten related items to give an at-a-glance look at some of the Library's interesting, important, strange, compelling, beautiful holdings.

  • 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.
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Salvation

    August 16, 2010

    Image links have been fixed, Praises Be! And now, a more exacting route to heaven: ”Survey or table declaring the order of the causes of salvation and...
  • A photograph of the first production of Owen Dodson’s Divine Comedy.

    Divine Comedy

    August 12, 2010

    A photograph of the first production of Owen Dodson’s Divine Comedy, based on the life of the religious leader Father Divine, at the Yale University...