Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • Her Desk

    April 22, 2010

    Poet H. D.’s writing desk, beside a portrait of her friend and literary executor Norman Holmes Pearson (Deane Keller, n. d.). A recent gift to the Yale...

  • The pocket dictionary . . . of Sabotage!

    April 20, 2010

    A curious addition to the Beinecke Library’s collection: This miniature booklet displays a cover title declaring it to be a “thumb dictionary” of French...

  • Joe and Lena on the water

    April 15, 2010

    Joe Louis and Lena Horne canoeing on Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, September 15, 1941. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used...

  • Dr. and Mrs. Williams

    April 6, 2010

    William Carlos and Flossie Williams, portraits on business card ( YCAL MSS 116 )

  • Bikini Girl

    April 1, 2010

    Issue #3 of Bikini Girl (February 1979), when the L.E.S. was the Lower East Side, and the Mudd Club was the Mudd Club. (With paper doll cutouts of Fred and...

  • Three Men in a Car(?)

    March 30, 2010

    A photograph of the gallerist Anatole Jakovsky and two friends astride a car-like contraption in Paris, ca. 1950. (The shop, named for Jacques Damiot, might...

  • Ever After

    March 25, 2010

    Gerald and Sara Murphy, on the beach in Antibes. In honor of the 122nd anniversary of the birth of the stylish expatriate American painter and taste-maker,...

  • VogueVogueVogue

    March 22, 2010

    Tea with André Leon Talley, Editor-at-Large, Vogue magazine at Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street, New Haven Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 4:00 p.m.Co-Sponsored by...

  • Marianne's Dressing

    March 18, 2010

    A recipe/letter from Marianne Moore to George Platt Lynes, ca. 1940s.