Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Other Rooms, Other Voices

    May 24, 2010

    In the parallel universes of the InterWeb, one finds: Room 26 , “one of the most genuine five piece bands on the circuit today.” Room 26 , the North American...
  • A letter written on an illustrated flyer advertising Dr. Carver's High-Diving Horse, Klatawah!, and the Girl in Red.

    The Great Leap (downwards)

    May 20, 2010

    A letter written on an illustrated flyer advertising Dr. Carver’s High-Diving Horse, Klatawah!, and the Girl in Red, a popular fairground attraction that...

  • The Deplorable Deck of Clifford

    May 18, 2010

    A deck of etched, printed, hand-colored playing cards created by the artist Nicholas Kahn while a student at Washington University in St. Louis. Missouri. The...
  • Pages from an album of drawings given to Robert Browning by André-Victor-Amédée, marquis de Ripert-Monclar, ca.

    Mementos

    May 13, 2010

    Pages from an album of drawings given to Robert Browning by André-Victor-Amédée, marquis de Ripert-Monclar, ca. 1830s-1860s, with later additions.
  • Dick Griffith

    Dick Griffith, Bull Rider

    May 10, 2010

    Dick Griffith, born to a rodeo family in Canton, Oklahoma in 1913 won four consecutive world-championship bull riding titles from 1939-1942. He stopped in New...
  • From: People of all nations : an useful toy for girl or boy. Philadelphia

    People of all nations

    May 6, 2010

    From: P eople of all nations : an useful toy for girl or boy . Philadelphia : Published by Jacob Johnson, No. 147, Market-street, 1807 (Whitehall [Pa.] : A...

  • Sea Creatures

    April 29, 2010

    Sea Creatures, by Pamela Colman Smith

  • Left-handed

    April 26, 2010

    Cover and dedicatory pages from Jean L’Anselme’s Poèmes à la sourieuse rose [Poems to the smiling rose] (Genève : L.E.C., 1948), a group of pieces...