Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • Ripe

    October 27, 2009

    Fruits and vegetables from the Beinecke garden. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten...

  • Tender Buttons

    October 22, 2009

    The new issue of ESOPUS Magazine features an article by Beinecke Library Catalog Librarian Ellen Ellickson about a collection of buttons kept by Marjorie Wynne...

  • Bonnie and Semoura and Co.

    October 20, 2009

    Images from the Bonnie and Semoura Clark Black Vaudeville Collection (Call Number: JWJ MSS 15 ); for related images see “Ruckus! American Entertainments at the...

  • Icteric

    October 15, 2009

    The first issue of Icteric , an arts magazine published in 1967-68 by David and Stuart Wise, who would go on to form the King Mob.

  • Eyes on the Half Shell

    October 12, 2009

    Two covers and an interior page from The Blindman , the Dada magazine published by Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, and Henri Pierre Roche.

  • A Woman's Wealth is her Constant Beauty

    October 1, 2009

    Display placards promoting fashions and hairstyles for African American women. ( JWJ MSS 47 ) Display placards that promote fashions and hairstyles for African...

  • Subscribers to the Book of Job

    September 29, 2009

    The original notebook kept by William Blake recording patrons for his major work of prints finished in 1826. Click here for the complete set of images.

  • Air travel etiquette

    September 24, 2009

    Two photographs from the papers of Bettina Bergery, always in fashion.

  • A Proper Education & the Death of Isadora.

    September 21, 2009

    A postcard sent from Monroe Wheeler to George Platt Lynes, April 16, 1927, suggesting important books to read. And another, posted September 16, 1927, noting...