Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • 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
  • Hats on a shelf; Chairs on a porch

    July 24, 2008

    From a series of photographs gathered by Langston Hughes of the Club Atenas in Havana, Cuba, 1931. [More photos can be found in the Beinecke Digital Image...
  • Linnea Borealis and friends

    July 21, 2008

    Images of flowers, from a set of lantern slides that accompanied the lecture, “My Life Among the Indians” given in 1941 by Walter McClintock. For more slides,...
  • How it all fits together

    July 17, 2008

    “Futurismo, definizione”Autograph manuscript definition of futurism and related movements, with corrections, diagrams, and drawings, undated. By Filippo...
  • Chez qui?

    July 14, 2008

    Advertisement from an issue of La revue blanche (#73, June 15, 1896)
  • Hot greetings!

    July 8, 2008

    A postcard from the Langston Hughes Papers, ca. 1933.
  • Daniel Webster Learns a Lesson

    July 3, 2008

    Illustration from: From Farm Boy to Senator: Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster By Horatio Alger, Jr., New York :J. S. Ogilvie...