Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • As in a Mirror

    December 14, 2009

    A plate from The magic lantern; or, Les ombres patriotiques… London: Printed for J. Owen, No.168, Picadilly, opposite Bond-street, 1794...

  • Going Up

    December 10, 2009

    The Eiffel Tower under construction, 1888-1889. And completed, as seen in 1941.

  • Admit One (or Two)

    December 7, 2009

    An assortment of tickets in Beinecke Library collections. A 1000 mile ticket on the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe Railway Company, 1901: An airplane ticket...

  • Tweet

    November 19, 2009

    The Beinecke Library is now on Facebook and Twitter . Become our Facebook fan . And then subscribe to our Twitter feed . Image: “The Mock-Bird,” in The Natural...

  • Overlords

    November 17, 2009

    Frank Bevan’s costume sketches, in watercolor and in pencil, for “Overlords,” a play produced/directed by George Pierce Baker at the Yale University...

  • Grammar in Rhyme

    November 5, 2009

    A primer by Walter Crane. To see the entire book online, click here .

  • Flare

    October 29, 2009

    a new artists’ book by Thomas Nozkowski and Cole Swensen co-published by Yale University Art Gallery & Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library The...