Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • In Memoriam

    September 30, 2008

    A scrapbook of mementos, writings and artwork by Willie Paddock who died young, Yonkers, NY, ca. 1860s-1880s.

  • Visual dictionary

    September 25, 2008

    A graphic vocabulary list intended for “sourds-muets” (deaf-mutes) printed in Nancy, France, in 1830.

  • Your face is your best mask

    September 22, 2008

    A guide for producing street theater, ca. 1970 with guidance on the various uses of masks:

  • Key Words

    September 19, 2008

    From the Beinecke Digital Images Online database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/ Title Key to private, sound-proof room in Cheyne Walk,...

  • "Never Wear Out"

    September 16, 2008

    Poster advertising performances of “Blue Jeans,” [1900]; an actual buzz saw appeared on stage in “The Thrilling Saw Mill Scene.” This was the first play to...

  • California Moss

    September 8, 2008

    IN: Records of waybills : [California], 1862 Mar 2-1863 Oct 30. Volume containing autograph manuscript records of shipments made by an unidentified carrier in...

  • Lipstick Trace

    September 4, 2008

    An issue of Black Mask from January, 1967 [not cited in Greil Marcus’s “Lipstick Traces”]...

  • The Inimitable Carolyn Wells

    September 2, 2008

    Selections from scrapbooks (ca. 1910s) kept by the writer Carolyn Wells, author of, among other titles,: “The Seven Ages of Childhood,” “The Happychaps,” “...

  • Inversions

    August 28, 2008

    A theme issue of a French magazine from August, 1923, focusing on the subject of “inversion” or homosexuality.