Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • Wild West

    October 6, 2007

    Images from the papers of Nate Salsbury, co owner with Buffalo Bill of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, beginning with a photo of Nate during his days as...

  • the garden, the street . . .

    October 5, 2007

    … ( the city, the airport ) Two poems by Aram Saroyan from Sled Hill Voices , Goliard Press, 1966...

  • Little Creatures

    October 1, 2007

    Photographs made for scenes in Le Grand Meaulnes , a coming-of-age novel by Alain Fournier. These scenarios with molded figures were constructed by Louise-...

  • Beinecke Podcasts

    September 28, 2007

    The Beinecke Library produces podcasts of brief talks and interviews about collections and exhibitions, as well as recordings of some public events at the...

  • O, Temperance, O, Mores!

    September 24, 2007

    Young Gentlemen & Ladies Social & Temperance Society of Chester, CT. A minute book of the organization, 1829-1841 complete with statement of purpose...

  • Shoe Portrait

    September 18, 2007

    Blanche Dunn’s legs and shoes , Photographed by Carl Van Vechten And, photographed in Morningside Park, New York City, by Carl Van Vechten in 1940...

  • Goliard Press

    September 11, 2007

    A selection of publications (which brings Beinecke’s collection to near completeness) from the press run by Tom Raworth and Barry Hall in the late 1960s...

  • Magnum headache

    September 4, 2007

    Magnum: die Zeitschrift für das moderne Leben , 1954-1966, was a German/Austrian compendium of images and commentary on modern design, art, architecture,...

  • Jeremy Reed, extraordinaire

    August 23, 2007

    A few poems from the latest group of archives from the prolific poet, biographer, critic and chronicler Jeremy Reed , whose writings cover an expanse of 20th...

  • The Poets Dinner Table

    August 21, 2007

    The Poet’s Dinner Table, (New Haven): O.A. Dorman, [ca. 1875] (click image for detailed view)...