Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

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.
The Stellameter by Benson May
May 9, 2014

The Stellameter by Benson May Project description: Students in Professor Helfand’s art class were given the final project of creating a cyanometer, or a...
UNTITLED by Evelyn Davis
May 7, 2014

Created in Professor Jessica Helfand’s spring 2014 freshman seminar about the color Blue, Evelyn Davis’s Untitled is a modern-day conception of...
WIND by Nate Sievert
May 5, 2014

Produced by by Nate Sievert, Y’17, in Professor Jessica Helfand’s spring 2014 freshman seminar about the color Blue, “Wind” is an experimental film that...
New Collection: Bell Scrapbook
May 5, 2014
The volume includes narrative about the trip, as well as circa 130 mounted photographic prints, circa 145 newspaper clippings and printed items, and 15 booklets and pamphlets tipped in or laid in.
Beinecke Bucket List 2014
May 1, 2014

Ten fascinating books, manuscripts, collections…to see before you graduate. This list incorporates and expands on our 2013 Beinecke Bucket List . Bible,...