Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • Window shopping

    December 18, 2008

    From the Beinecke Digital Library ( http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/ ) First photo and two photos above: (Van Vechten Photographs) Used with...

  • Riding the Moon Bats to Saturn

    December 15, 2008

    A marvelous volume from a genre of speculative lunar travel around the turn of the 20th century: Ville D’Avray, A. de. Voyage dans la lune avant 1900...

  • Beware of Foreign Lobsters!

    December 11, 2008

    A series of broadsides from 1715, forming a dialogue arguing for and against the presence of foreign fishermen in English waters.

  • The people's court

    December 8, 2008

    Six issues of a poetry pamphlet series published in Lisbon, Portugal just prior to the revolution of 1910. [The title translates roughly as “The people’s...

  • Small & Good

    December 4, 2008

    Newly added titles by Raymond Pettibon to the growing collection in the Beinecke Library (50 +). These books also feature the work of Nelson Tarpenny.

  • Education for all

    December 1, 2008

    Titles in a series of educational books for children published in the early 1940s by the Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in the...

  • On the Road

    November 24, 2008

    Georgia O’Keeffe ( Stieglitz & O’Keeffe Papers YCAL MSS 85 ) *** Langston Hughes, Hugh Jackman, and friends (Langston Hughes Papers JWJ MSS 26...

  • Retouched portraits

    November 20, 2008

    From the Katherine S. Dreier papers / Societe Anonyme archive Jean Arp Max Ernst

  • Kaputt-nik!

    November 18, 2008

    Three issues of a radical and far-out magazine, Charlie Kaputt , from Berlin, 1968.