Collection Highlights

The Beinecke Library contains multitudes. These selections of a few highlights represent some of the breadth and depth of materials from across time, place, genre, and format, and hopefully may inspire you to search for yourself throughout the collections. You can search the selected highlights in the box below, but also make sure to search all of the collections through Orbis, Archives at Yale, and the library’s digital collections.

  • Mina Loy papers

    Mina Loy (1882-1966), the modernist poet, painter, playwright, actress, and designer of lampshades, lived in Europe during the height of the Futurist, Dada,...
  • Monique Wittig papers

    The collection consists of correspondence, writings, lectures, teaching materials, writings by others, conference materials, printed material, electronic media...
  • Monkeys' Moon & Pool Films

    Monkeys' Moon, made in 1929 by Kenneth Macpherson, Bryher, and the poet H. D. was thought to be lost. Eighty years later, this six minute film has fully...

  • N. Scott Momaday Papers

    N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) is a Native American writer, painter, and activist of Kiowa descent. His mother, Natachee Scott Momaday, taught elementary school in...
  • Olga Rudge Papers

    Items documenting the life of the musician Olga Rudge and her fifty-year relationship with the poet Ezra Pound.