Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • Can't We All Just Get Along?

    May 15, 2008

    Issues of a newsletter for a gay men’s community, near Amherst, Mass. in the 1970s. [Click to enlarge]...

  • Writers at Work

    May 12, 2008

    Beinecke Top Tens gather (approximately) ten related items to give an at-a-glance look at some of the Library’s interesting, important, strange, compelling, beautiful holdings.

  • The reason is . . .

    May 8, 2008

    … it is a strikingly beautiful image. Natalia Gontcharova’s cover for Lord Berners’ song, “Poisson d’Or”, 1919. http://www.nytimes.com/books/...

  • Playing Dirty

    May 5, 2008

    Selected images from a collection of novelty baseball postcards, circa 1910 (Call Number: Gen MSS File 359 ).

  • Captain Ginger!

    May 1, 2008

    A set of 5 (out of 6 published) titles in the Captain Ginger series, written by Isabel Anderson and published in 1910 & 1911. (Boston : C.M. Clark). These...

  • Fore-edge

    April 28, 2008

    Fore-edge photograph of a collection of programs issued by the Writer’s Forum reading series at SUNY Brockport, 1968-1975. The collection was complied by poet...

  • Thunder Riders & The Ramblin' Galoot

    April 24, 2008

    Selected posters and lobby advertisements featuring key scenes and lead actors in silent western films, circa 1910-1930. Complete description of the collection...

  • Yawp!

    April 21, 2008

    Selected manuscript fragments from the Walt Whitman Collection ( YCAL MSS 202 ) As in a Swoon Man-of-War Bird Rise Lurid Stars With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea

  • la gente grita

    April 17, 2008

    Mural painted by Native American writer Leslie Silko (detail, context) (Uncat MSS 705 Box 11)

  • Little Sunbeams

    April 14, 2008

    … and harried pets. [circa 1890, in the collection of the Beinecke Library as part of a salesman’s sample book, including Young People’s...