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.

  • Zane Grey Home Movies

    The collection documents the life and work of the American writer Zane Grey and his wife Dolly Grey, and to some extent the lives of their children.

  • Zora Neale Hurston Collection

    The Zora Neale Hurston Collection contains correspondence, writings, including drafts of her autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road , the novel, Their Eyes...