Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

    August 9, 2010

    An issue of Whisper from June, 1956, an example of the gossip-fueled tabloids that multiplied in the 1950s, answering (and creating) the American public’...
  • Versos of a few framed paintings in the Beinecke Library's collection.

    Frame backs

    August 5, 2010

    Versos of a few framed paintings in the Beinecke Library’s collection...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Broken

    August 2, 2010

    Faithful readers may have noticed that links to many images in older blog posts are broken. This is the result of moving files to a new server location. Please...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    The American Woods

    July 26, 2010

    Romeyn B. Hough, The American Woods, Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text , Lowville, N.Y., 1888-1910, v.1-v.11; each part consists...
  • Mabel Dodge Luhan, Frieda Lawrence, and Dorothy Brett on Mrs. Lawrence’s porch, near Taos, 1938

    Now We Are Three

    July 19, 2010

    In honor of the third anniversary of the launch of the Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities… Mabel Dodge Luhan, Frieda Lawrence, and Dorothy Brett on Mrs...
  • Frank Leslie’s boys and girls weekly; an illustrated record of outdoor and home amusements. New York, Frank Leslie. Vol. 27, No. 687 (December 20, 1879).

    Bicycle fever

    July 16, 2010

    “The New Bicycle Fever.-The four days’ bicycle contest for the Championship of the World, recently held in Boston. Harry Etherington, W. Cann, and C. Terront,...
  • Practical Ostrich Feather Dyer

    July 12, 2010

    The Practical Ostrich Feather Dyer / by Alexander Paul; revised and corrected by Dr. M. Frank. Philadelphia: Published by Mrs. Dr. M. Frank, “Textile Colorist...