Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • Ole!

    February 8, 2010

    Postcard from Ernest Hemingway to Gertrude Stein, featuring an image of a bullfighter, [June 9, 1924]. http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/...

  • Elements of Style

    January 28, 2010

    “Muriel Draper’s fabulous hat” photograph by Carl Van Vechten; in honor of the Beinecke Library’s new exhibition, “Elements of Style: Fashion and...

  • Prazos (complete with Dip-Tank)

    January 25, 2010

    Images from a pair of photo albums documenting a group of prazos in Eastern Africa in 1917-1918. According to Wikipedia, a prazo was “a large estate leased to...

  • Matter

    January 21, 2010

    Four issues of a deluxe poetry, art, and music magazine, Matière , published in Zurich, 1952-53.

  • Demon Tumbling

    January 15, 2010

    [Illuminated Books #18: Demon Tumbling Down Stairs ] by Erica Van Horn, in honor of the exhibition The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of Erica Van Horn ,...

  • Sea of Japan

    January 12, 2010

    Pages from a unique book of 121 mounted seaweed specimens from the Sea of Japan [collected, possibly by Lauriston B. Hardin, on the Perry Japan Expedition,...

  • The Voice of the New Year

    January 8, 2010

    Along with a new stylesheet - (tell us what you think) - we present: as a special cautionary post for the New Year, the complete text of: The Warning Clock; or...

  • Snowshoe Club

    December 17, 2009

    Geo. M. Fairchild, Jr., President of the Oritani Snowshoe Club of New York, in the woods of his seignorial estate, Deschambault, Canada. Walter McClintock,...