Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • A Yale buffet

    The Buffet

    April 18, 2012

    Here at Room 26, we tend to think of this blog, and Beinecke Library, and, well, even Yale, as a big buffet … with new items added every day! Think of...
  • Bookplate from H. D.'s library

    New Research in Beinecke Collections

    April 9, 2012

    (Re)Storing Happiness: Toward an Ecopoetic Reading of H.D.’s The Sword Went Out to Sea (Synthesis of a Dream), by Delia Alton, from Interdisciplinary Studies...
  • Some Scraps

    March 15, 2012

  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Summer Palace

    March 10, 2012

    Sacred Bridge, Summer Palace, Nikko [from the album “Photos by Russell J. and Blanche C. Matthias of their 1917 trip to the Far East, handcolored by Blanche...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Birthplace

    February 26, 2012

    Birthplace of Hart Crane, Garrettsville, Ohio. Photographed by John S. Baker, March, 1967 Hart Crane collection, 1910-1972; YCAL MSS 37
  • Canyon de Chelly, photograph by Richard Erdoes

    Petroglyph Hand

    February 19, 2012

    Canyon de Chelly, photograph by Richard Erdoes. From the Richard Erdoes papers, WA MSS S-2609.