Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • M. M.

    May 7, 2009

    A pair of Mickey Mouse books from the early 1930s. Mickey, chercheur d’or [Paris] : Hachette, [©1931] whose endpapers advertise the adventures of the...

  • The Jumble Club

    May 4, 2009

    The records of The Jumble Club, a group dedicated to playing whist (and *only* whist) which thrived in Glasgow, Scotland, approximately between 1799 and 1877...

  • Living Portraits: The Poets

    April 27, 2009

    Poets photographed by Carl Van Vechten, including images featured in the exhibition Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans...

  • The Potters' Wheel

    April 23, 2009

    A handmade journal of poetry, paintings, designs, and photographs created by a group of young women, including poet Sara Teasdale who later won the Pulitzer...

  • Play de Blues and Misery

    April 20, 2009

    Play de Blues / Misery – Image by Aaron Douglas, poem by Langston Hughes, from Six Poems , [1926]. (detail) April is National Poetry Month !...

  • Poets' Portraits

    April 16, 2009

    Photographs of poets by poet, editor, and photographer Jonathan Williams (collection record in Orbis: Jonathan Williams Photographs ; view additional images...

  • Modern Poetry in Review

    April 11, 2009

    Modernist Little Magazines & Poetry Reviews Little Review , September 1917 *** Blast , June 20, 1914 ( more images from this issue ) *** Harlem , November...

  • Visual Poetry

    April 9, 2009

    Visual Poetry by K.S. Ernst; locate full descriptions of these and additional examples of Ernst’s work in the Yale Collection American Literature in...

  • Corrections

    April 6, 2009

    Poets’ corrected manuscripts and working drafts H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), “Helios” ( YCAL MSS 24 ) *** Langston Hughes, “Portrait of a Woman: Harriet Tubman” (...

  • A Poem by Phillis

    April 2, 2009

    Phillis Wheatley, An Elegiac Poem: on the Death of that Celebrated Divine and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned George Whitefield...