Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • The Beautiful and Damned

    February 19, 2009

    Hand colored lobby cards advertising the 1922 Warner Brothers production of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned “She fed on her popularity and...

  • House of Ice

    February 12, 2009

    Photograph by Robert Giard ( Uncat MSS 765 )

  • Borderline

    February 9, 2009

    Production photographs, film stills, and program from Borderline , an experimental silent film produced in 1930 by Pool Films. Posted in conjunction with the...

  • Glad Rags

    February 5, 2009

    Pages from issues of Rags , a counter-culture fashion periodical, published between June 1970 - June 1971 (San Francisco, Calif. : Rosy Cheeks Publishers)...

  • Tiempos Nuevos

    February 2, 2009

    The cover of an issue of the Spanish anarchist journal from 1937. With an image of the famous poster by Fontsere’:

  • Math problems

    January 29, 2009

    A schoolteacher’s manuscript exercise book containing a variety of simple and complex mathematical problems, 1806, Pennsylvania. including such all-time...

  • False Stories Corrected

    January 26, 2009

    One tale from an 1822 collection for young readers intent on disproving such mythic creatures as The Mermaid, The Harpie, The Centaur, and this fellow, who is...

  • Poetry in the (Fake and Real) News

    January 22, 2009

    Poet Elizabeth Alexander on The Colbert Report Elizabeth Alexander reciting Inaugural poem “Praise Song for the Day” Text of “Praise Song for the Day” Newsweek...

  • Picnic

    January 19, 2009

    Dr. J.V. Lauderdale and his family seated on the ground, a blanket with their picnic near them, one daughter holding her doll.