Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • a line only a word

    April 11, 2018

    On April 9 & 10, 2018, Simon Cutts and Paul Etienne Lincoln visited Beinecke Library to install Simon’s neon work “a line only a word”...

  • Seeing Gutenberg & Audubon -- Image Gallery

    April 2, 2018

    An IMAGE GALLERY for “Seeing the Gutenberg Bible and The Birds of America” by Nancy Kuhl, Curator of Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature READ MORE...

  • YCAL Archives by Category

    March 27, 2018

    A developing list of American Literature archives organized by authorial categories and genres.

  • Historical Context for Contemporary Law

    March 21, 2018

    In his recent Continuing Legal Education talk, “Litigating Attorney-Misconduct Claims Under New York’s Judiciary Law §487,” Jeremy C. Bates (of Matalon Shweky...

  • New Student Research

    March 19, 2018

    “The Cave that Consecrates History” by Jordan Cutler-Tietjen Y’20, was written in the spring or 2017 for Professor Dixa Ramírez’s course Travel Literature of...

  • New Acquisition: Steichen Family Papers

    March 8, 2018

    The gift of Edward Steichen's grandaughter, Francesca Calderone-Steichen, the Steichen Family Papers contains photographs, correspondence, writings, exhibition materials, legal papers, genealogical materials, audiovisual materials, digital media, and other papers relating to the twentieth century photographer and art curator Edward J. Steichen and the members of his family.

  • The Art of Collaboration: Native Son on Stage and Screen

    February 23, 2018

    Richard Wright’s classic novel, a bestseller when it was published in 1940, explores the conditions of the life of Bigger Thomas, a poor, black 19-year-old, and the aftermath of Bigger’s accidental murder of Mary Dalton, a wealthy, white college student, culminating in Bigger’s trial, where he is defended by a communist lawyer.