Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • Face to Face to Face to Face

    June 15, 2009

    Polaroid portraits of poets, writers, artists, critics, and others from the Jonathan Williams Photograph Collection. Jonathan Williams, a poet, photographer,...

  • Bigger, Better

    June 11, 2009

    New Beinecke Library Shelving Facility As part of its ongoing commitment to improve research capabilities by increasing and preserving its collections, the...

  • Brakhage Scrapbooks

    June 8, 2009

    Jane Wodening and Stan Brakhage Scrapbooks, compiled by Jane (Brakhage) Wodening, [1958–67] . Podcast : A description of the scrapbooks by Richard Deming,...

  • As Time Goes By

    June 3, 2009

    New Hours At Beinecke Library New Reading Room Hours, Effective June 1, 2009 Mondays – Thursdays 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Fridays 9:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m. New...

  • Qui est Henri Roorda?

    June 1, 2009

    Well, according to our research, Henri Roorda van Eysinga (1870-1925, who often wrote under the pseudonym Balthazar) was a Swiss educator, humorist, anarchist...

  • Wonder Movies

    May 26, 2009

    A curious production from the early 1920s intended to mimic motion in a book for young readers. Each “movie” is viewed by turning back successive panels on a...

  • Schwimm, Schwamm, Schwumm

    May 21, 2009

    Illustrated plates from a German primer on swimming. Carl Purkart, Vorschriften für den Schwimmunterricht (München, 1826)

  • Past Times

    May 18, 2009

    Les Jeux des jeunes garçons représentés en 25 gravures à l’aqua-tints d’après les dessins de Xavier Le Prince ; avec l’explication détaillée...

  • A Garden by the Sea

    May 14, 2009

    Selected poems and images from a privately distributed volume from 1935: Noailles, Anna Elisabeth de Brancovan, Philippe Gonin, and Jean Berque. 1935. “Les...

  • Evidence of follies past

    May 12, 2009

    An exceedingly rare paper share for an English company traded at the height of the stock mania in the summer of 1720 - perhaps the only known survival of this...