Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

L'alalà funebre
December 31, 2010

A broadside by Gabriele d’Annunzio, commemorating his withdrawal from the Free State of Fiumi on December 31, 1920...
Hearts
December 27, 2010

The King and Queen of Hearts as judges; in The Nursery “Alice” (New York : Macmillan and Co., 1890), adapted from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s...
Tart, Lobster, and Pickle Herring
December 20, 2010

Playing cards from a deck of “carving cards” printed by Joseph Moxon in London, circa 1680.
Facts relating to the only tattooed lady
December 16, 2010

Facts relating to the only tattooed lady : being a full and complete account of the life and adventures of this young lady, the only tattoed female in the...
Radiotélégramme
December 13, 2010

An urgent plea from George Platt Lynes to Monroe Wheeler, on board the S.S. France, February 19, 1927. From the Glenway Wescott Papers .
Four on a Bench
December 6, 2010

Fedor Stepun, I. I. Fondaminskii, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin and I. P. Demidov - from the F edor Stepun Papers .
Ads, Ads, Ads . . . or "Have you learned about mouth-happiness?" (courtesy of Spud cigarettes)
November 30, 2010

Advertising pages from the September 11, 1933 issue of TIME Magazine, which featured a profile of Gertrude Stein.
Lunch in the mountains + pig . . . er boar
November 26, 2010

A snapshot of Robert Byron and dining companions, 1927, from the Robert Byron Papers .
Exchanging Hats
November 19, 2010

Portraits of Elizabeth Bishop and Louise Crane, circa 1930s, from the Louise Crane Papers .
In Memoriam
November 12, 2010

Former provost and distinguished intellectual historian Frank M. Turner — who only two months ago embarked on a five-year term as University librarian,...