Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • Inversions

    August 28, 2008

    A theme issue of a French magazine from August, 1923, focusing on the subject of “inversion” or homosexuality.

  • Le champion du monde

    August 25, 2008

    Cover image: Leon See, Le champion du monde Jack Johnson, Paris : Imp. Paul Dupont, [1910?]

  • Eye of the Beholder

    August 20, 2008

    Eyeglasses worn by Walt Whitman A brief article about Whitman’s glasses by Richard Deming was recently published in The Sienese Shredder ...

  • Party City

    August 14, 2008

    Montmartre en 1925 by Jean Gravigny A guide to the high life and low life in a fabled section of Paris in the 1920s. [Illustrations “de RM” - otherwise...

  • Instructional manual

    August 11, 2008

    Densmore, Yost & Co., The type-writer! : a machine to supersede the pen. New York : Densmore, Yost & co., [1875?]

  • Loie and who?

    August 7, 2008

    Loie Fuller and ??? From a collection of photographs of theatrical performers by Napoleon Sarony, ca. 1870-1890.

  • Strange and wonderful news

    August 5, 2008

    Four 17th century broadsides from Beinecke collections. [full records can be found in the Beinecke Digital Library .]

  • Imaginary States: Winnemac

    July 31, 2008

    A map of novelist Sinclair Lewis’s United States, including the imagined state of Winnemac which Lewis describes as “bounded by Michigan, Ohio, Illinois...

  • Telegram!

    July 28, 2008

    From the Beinecke Digital Image database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex