Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

Student Projects: Digital Photography (Sanchez)
October 14, 2014

Work submitted by Santiago Sanchez, Y16, for Meredith Miller’s Intermediate Digital Photography class, using an original photo in the Beinecke Library...
Digitizing the Historical Record
October 9, 2014
Resources used in Andrew Stauffer's recent Beinecke Library workshop, Digitizing the Historical Record.
Player: Molly Wheeler
September 3, 2014

Congratulations to Beinecke’s own Molly Wheeler, featured “player” in this week’s New Haven Living PLAYERS: Librarians, By Todd Lyon | Photos by...
Meet Hot Writers
August 29, 2014

Literary Speed Dating with the 2014 winners of the Windham Campbell Literature Prizes Tuesday, September 16, 6 PM Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library,...
Beautiful Saralee Dolls
July 31, 2014

Beautiful Saralee Dolls , Hollis 7, N.Y.: Ideal Toy Corp., [approximately 1950], call numbers: 2014 Folio 475 & 2014 Folio 476 ; associated archival...
Baby Beinecke
July 22, 2014

In honor of the Beinecke Library’s 50th anniversary in 2013, the Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop hosted a summer class in which students created...
Beinecke or Bust
July 17, 2014

Sculptural portraits in the Beinecke collections (an incomplete list): Anna Glenny Dunbar (1888-1990) Francis Hyde Bangs (1892-1964) Bronze YCAL MSS 47 Justin...
New Scholarship: The Map Thief
June 24, 2014

‘The Map Thief’ by Michael Blanding, reviewed in The Boston Globe, June 7 2014, by Michael Washburn Extravagant crimes don’t always require extravagant tools...
New Collection: Miller Scrapbook
May 20, 2014
The Beinecke Library has acquired an autograph manuscript diary and scrapbook that documents a trip to Nova Scotia trip by Richard A. Miller and Janet Miller, with their children David and Meredith, from Glastonbury, Connecticut, to Nova Scotia, 1978 July 30-August 13.
New Collection: 1920s Cartoons
May 14, 2014
The Yale Collection of American Literature has acquired a collection of humorous cartoons by an unidentified American artist, signed "F.G." or "J.G.," that feature a protagonist, Jerry, probably the alter ego of the artist, and his pursuit of women, as well as drinking alcohol, automobiles, and other subjects, circa 1926.