Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

Poor traits
April 7, 2011

Gelett Burgess’s song about The Goops, 1900...
The Skeleton in Armor
March 30, 2011

Morris & Co. and Walter Crane Crossing the Pond March 24, 2011 marked the 177th anniversary of the birth of William Morris (1834-1896), the incredibly...
A reading of letters between psychoanalyst and patient
March 27, 2011

A. A. Brill and Mabel Dodge Luhan: A Reading from their Correspondence by Patricia Everett and Paul Lippmann Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 5:00 pm Psychoanalyst A...
Discovering E. M. Forster’s Secret Lives
March 24, 2011

Wendy Moffat discusses her new biography of E. M. Forster Using photographs, images of holograph letters, and other evidence, Wendy Moffat will explore a few...
Hilton Als at Beinecke
March 16, 2011

THE JAMES WELDON JOHNSON MEMORIAL LECTURE | 2011 A Reading & Conversation with New Yorker critic Hilton Als Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 4:00 pm Hilton Als...
No Leaning Out!
March 15, 2011

Circular Bridge, Mt. Lowe Railway (Altadena, California), no. 53072. Detroit Photographic Co. or Detroit Publishing Co. ca. 1897-1924
Historic Dress
March 7, 2011
Photographs of friends and family from the papers of poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) and related archives; posted in honor of the Beinecke Library's first annual staff H.D. & Co. Costume Party.
Re-Writing Freud
February 28, 2011

Simon Morris, artist, and Christine Morris, creative technologist, Re-Writing Freud , 2005; iPhone / iPad app edition, 2011. The iPad app edition of Re-Writing...
Snobbery and Decay
February 23, 2011

Masquerade ball : Rustic tableau, Paris, 1931 A view of Lake Ontario with a broken yacht, men and railroad tracks against the shoreline. undated.
MARVELous Beinecke
February 18, 2011

Pages from Paul Tobin and Ig Guara, Marvel Adventures: Black Widow and The Avengers , #18, featuring the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Beinecke...