Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

Eve Arnold Papers
July 2, 2012

A new guide to the Eve Arnold Papers is now available online: Guide to the Eve Arnold Papers (YCAL MSS 611) ; a brief description of the collection is...
"How Will You Look This Summer?"
June 22, 2012

Issues of Strength and Health magazine from the late 1930s/early 1940s - with some back cover ads.
A Barrel full of Rhymes
June 19, 2012

A curious object - a small wooden barrel housing a strip of linen printed with Alphabet rhymes.Circa 1880.
Student Research in Beinecke Collections
June 1, 2012

Zara Kessler, Yale College Class of 2012 John Hersey’s Yale Education written for Professor John Gaddis, The Art of Biography, HIST215J An excerpt: On...
Featuring Beinecke
June 1, 2012

#22 YALE Yale Special. Planned, edited & designed by graphic design department, Yale School of Art. PARTICIPANTS & CONTRIBUTORS include Beinecke...
Student Research in Beinecke Collections
May 25, 2012

Katherine Fein, Yale College Class of 2014 Quite a Story to Tell: The Laughs and Loves of Mary Welsh written for Professor John Gaddis, The Art of Biography,...
The Grand Eleusinian Spectacle
May 14, 2012

Playbill for an evening’s entertainment at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, London, England: The Grand Eleusinian Spectacle of Magic & Mystery , by...
New Research from the Beinecke Collections
May 10, 2012

New from the University of Iowa Press: The American H. D ., by Annette Debo In The American H.D ., Annette Debo considers the significance of nation in the...
Back to the Garden.
May 7, 2012
Gertrude in repose
April 26, 2012

On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through June 3, 2012: The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde . Gertrude Stein in the...