Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • The Lantern - part 1

    May 27, 2011

    Pages from issues of handmade juvenile publications, The Lantern , created by 8-year-old Frederic Gerrish of Portland, Maine, 1853-1859. Tune in again later...
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    Celebrating Stieglitz & O'Keeffe

    May 24, 2011

    Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 4:00 pm Please join us for a reception at the Beinecke to celebrate several exciting Library-sponsored projects drawing on materials...
  • A bill made out to Alfred Stieglitz for materials and framing of paintings by John Marin.

    Framing in Good Taste

    May 18, 2011

    A bill made out to Alfred Stieglitz for materials and framing of paintings by John Marin. From the Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia OKeeffe archive .
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    Dress

    May 2, 2011

    Fragment of the wedding dress of Sarah Pierpont Edwards, from the Jonathan Edwards Papers: GEN MSS 151 . Featured on the cover of Susan Howe’s book That...
  • For Grace

    April 29, 2011

    From: Frank O’Hara, Meditations In An Emergency, N. Y.: Grove Press, (1957); copy 4 , from the special edition of fifteen copies containing an original drawing...
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    Cliff House

    April 26, 2011

    The Cliff House, San Francisco, California, circa 1902. During the Day … and at Night...
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    A Woman of Genius

    April 21, 2011

    Dust jacket for: A Woman of Genius by Mary Austin, Doubleday, Page & Company,1912.
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    2011 Yale College Poets Reading

    April 18, 2011

    Yale College Poets Reading Featuring Ilan Ben-Meir, Elisa Gonzalez, Alice Hodgkins, Laurel Hunt, Casey Blue James, Kate Lund, Hannah Zeavin Musser, Noah Warren...
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    Survivor

    April 14, 2011

    Mahala Dutton Benedict Douglas (1864-1945) photographed by Carl Van Vechten, New York, November 22, 1935. Douglas survived the sinking of the Titanic. Her...