Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    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,...

  • WALDEN by Ana Maria Gomez Lopez

    May 1, 2014

    New work by Yale School of Art graduate student Ana Maria Gomez Lopez will be featured in Walden , an upcoming exhibition at the deCordova Museum exploring the...

  • New Acquisition: Henry Martyn Hoyt Papers

    April 21, 2014

    American artist and poet Henry Martyn Hoyt enrolled at Yale University at age 16. After he graduated in 1907, Hoyt traveled in Europe, studied architecture at...

  • Beinecke Top Tens: Poetry outside of Books

    April 5, 2014

    Examples of publications combining poetry and unusual literary formats: Anna Banana, Mail Art Stamps, 1989-2005. YCAL MSS 254 (postage ptamps) Amiri Baraka, “...
  • Spring Awaking, an exhibition of contemporary cyanotype photographs on view at Slifka Center through April.

    Blue: Related Exhibtion

    March 11, 2014

    If you liked our exhibition “Blue: Color and Concept,” visit Spring Awaking, an exhibition of contemporary cyanotype photographs on view at Slifka Center...

  • Origins of the Color Forecasting Industry

    March 10, 2014

    Ambrotypes, Entomology, and Ostrich Feathers: Tracing the Origins of the Color Forecasting Industry Jae Jennifer Rossman , Assistant Director for Special...