Beinecke Top Tens gather (approximately) ten related items to give an at-a-glance look at some of the Library’s interesting, important, strange, compelling, beautiful holdings.
Beinecke Top Tens: Paul Robeson Lobby cards for 1933 motion picture “Emperor Jones” starring Paul Robeson and directed by Dudley Murphy, from the stage play by...
Hart Crane, “The Bridge” The Dial/Scofield Thayer Papers, YCAL MSS 34 H.D., Trilogy H. D. Papers, YCAL MSS 24 T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” The Dial/Scofield...
Beinecke Top Ten: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Snapshots from the Gerald and Sara Murphy Papers (Includes photographs of Sir Charles Mendl, Elsie de Wolfe,...
The following presses were featured in the first Small Press Reading Room event, co-sposored by the Yale Collection of American Literature and The Yale Lit...
Ernest Hemingway Top Ten Photograph of Langston Hughes, Michael Koltyov, Ernest Hemingway, Nicolas Guillen, 1937, from the Langston Hughes Papers JWJ MSS 26...
New additions enrich Beinecke’s Pound collection Recent acquisitions of Ezra Pound letters and manuscripts present new research opportunities in the...
Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919) was a leading African-American businesswoman in the 1910s, and a pioneer in the beauty industry. Her products not only promised “good hair” and a “smooth, clear complexion” but also success for black women, a narrative that reflected Walker’s own ambition and remarkable rise as the first free-born American citizen in a family of slaves.
Beinecke acquisitions offer insights into public and private life of Georgia O’Keeffe Recent acquisitions by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library shed light on the life and work of artist Georgia O’Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Pages from scrapbooks in Beinecke Library collections (some of these and other examples from Beinecke collections are featured in Scrapbooks: An American History by Jessica Helfand, Yale UP, 2008).
