Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • Telephone Girls, the Algonquin Hotel

    September 18, 2009

    A Carl Van Vechten portrait from July 9, 1937. Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; permission of the Trust is...

  • Fountains

    September 15, 2009

    Washington, DC Macon, Georgia Brussels, Belgium Sevilla, Spain Rome, Italy New York, NY

  • Paradise Now!

    September 11, 2009

    Co‐founder and Artistic Director Judith Malina will be in residency at Yale School of Drama, September 14‐15. Free public screenings of Signals Through the...

  • ca. 1909

    September 8, 2009

    An Ezra Pound notebook. A photograph of F. T. Marinetti. A Western scene by Charles Russell. A score by Jules Massenet. Oriental Limited - Observation car by...

  • Daily Bul

    September 3, 2009

    Pages from two runs of Daily Bul , a magazine produced by the sculptor, Pol Bury, from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s.

  • Fuli, Kimbo, Saby, and Marqu

    August 22, 2009

    Pen-and-Ink drawings of the so-called Amistad prisoners, Africans, who, after being abducted from their homeland, revolted and took control of the slave ship...

  • Town Tarrydiddles

    August 17, 2009

    An amateur newspaper, done in manuscript, from 1882. The authors, Guy and Thomas Berry Cusack-Smith, recount the social and sporting goings-on in their...

  • Mess kit

    August 10, 2009

    An artist’s book/kit/agit-prop piece against the Vietnam War. Mess kit by William Ogue Mustill (San Francisco : Nova Broadcast) 1971...

  • Martha Becker Finney

    August 6, 2009

    New works by writer/artist/designer/architect/sculptor Martha Becker Finney. The Beinecke Library holds an extensive collection of her hand-made limited...

  • Dance, Dance, Revolution!

    August 3, 2009

    Peter Pan: The Pillow Dance, by John Hassall 1907 *** [Navajo Social Club Dance], by Stanley C. Mitchell, 1937 *** “Giving a Hand in Minuet” in The Rudiments...