Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • Fanny and Emil carving heart in tree.

    Valentine

    February 14, 2011

    [Fanny and Emil carving heart in tree]. Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, trekked with his wife Fanny through the national parks and forests of California,...
  • Psychoanalysis, NY: Tiny Tot Comics, c1955, volume 1

    Searching for Peace of Mind?

    February 13, 2011

    Psychoanalysis, NY: Tiny Tot Comics, c1955, volumes 1-4 (call number: Za Zp956); featured in the Beinecke Library’s current exhibition: Psyche & Muse...
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    The Sun-Cure

    February 8, 2011

    A view of a tuberculosis sanitarium for children at Groslay (Northern France) during World War I. From the Edith Wharton Papers .
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    Cart | Horse

    February 1, 2011

    Mexican cart in the courtyard or garden of the “Ramona” house in San Diego. Photograph taken by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, 1929 Sept. One horse picketed...
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    Minds of Winter

    January 28, 2011

    Prisoners with snow sculpture, Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, circa 1930-1938 Car trapped in snow Snow Flake Bracelet by Erica Van...
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    Ogden Nash on Gertrude Stein

    January 24, 2011

    Ogden Nash’s “They Don’t Speak English in Paris”, ca. 1935, with his reactions to the increasing fame and acceptance of Gertrude Stein’s...
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    The Sea-mans doleful Farewel

    January 19, 2011

    The seamans doleful farewel or, The Greenwitch lovers mournful departure : see here the pattern of true love, which absence cannot stain : and nothing shall...
  • The key card for the game of: Robert le Diable: Jeu des Mariages.

    Hot Stuff

    January 14, 2011

    The key card for the game of: Robert le Diable: Jeu des Mariages . France, circa 1820.
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    For our God is a consuming Fire.

    January 11, 2011

    A New-England Primer printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1764. The New-England primer enlarged. For the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which...
  • From an unidentified card game from France, circa 1860s.

    Q&A

    January 3, 2011

    Simple question; complicated answer. From an unidentified card game from France, circa 1860s.