Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • 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.

  • Hen fight!

    November 10, 2008

    An engraved plate by George Cruikshank from a compilation of issues of “London Oddities or the Theatrical Cabinet”, [London, Hodgson & Co., ca. 1822.]

  • Efficacious Grace

    November 6, 2008

    Johnathan Edwards, “Efficacious Grace,” manuscripts in a notebook made from several different scraps of paper and bound by hand; in the Jonathan Edwards...