Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • The Ivory Tower

    December 4, 2007

    A view out the window of Room 26, 4:28 p.m., December 3, 2007.

  • Holy Cow!

    November 28, 2007

    Photograph of Ursula Balfour with cow (from the James Lees-Milne Papers )

  • Punch and Judy

    November 25, 2007

    Punch and Judy puppets from the Edmund Wilson Papers ( YCAL MSS 187 ): Punch, Judy, Devil, Police Officer, Skeleton, & Monk (to see the complete collection...

  • Gay Paree

    November 16, 2007

    Photographs of cast members of the musical Gay Paree (1927-30), collected by cast members Josephine and Sophie Schlenk. The collection includes photographs of...

  • The Real Adventures of Tintin

    November 12, 2007

    A volume collecting all 108 parts of an serial published in France, 1933-1935 featuring a hero named Tintin … who has many adventures, including firing a...

  • Georgia On My Mind

    November 7, 2007

    Collages by Lenore Tawney, for Georgia O’Keeffe, from the Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe Papers ( YCAL MSS 85 )...

  • La dérive

    November 5, 2007

    Guy Debord’s Guide psychogeographique de Paris [1957]. For a scalable version go here: http://brbl-media.library.yale.edu/PATREQIMG/sids/D0987/1044447...

  • It becomes them

    October 30, 2007

    A collection of death masks in the Beinecke Library. [NOTE: Updated 11-2-07. See below.] H. D. [1886-1961] http://www.imagists.org/hd/ Hermann Broch [1886-1951...