Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • Linnea Borealis and friends

    July 21, 2008

    Images of flowers, from a set of lantern slides that accompanied the lecture, “My Life Among the Indians” given in 1941 by Walter McClintock. For more slides,...

  • How it all fits together

    July 17, 2008

    “Futurismo, definizione”Autograph manuscript definition of futurism and related movements, with corrections, diagrams, and drawings, undated. By Filippo...

  • Chez qui?

    July 14, 2008

    Advertisement from an issue of La revue blanche (#73, June 15, 1896)

  • Hot greetings!

    July 8, 2008

    A postcard from the Langston Hughes Papers, ca. 1933.

  • Daniel Webster Learns a Lesson

    July 3, 2008

    Illustration from: From Farm Boy to Senator: Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster By Horatio Alger, Jr., New York :J. S. Ogilvie...

  • The Book of Accidents

    June 23, 2008

    The Book of accidents: designed for young children. New Haven : S. Babcock, Sidney’s press, 1831 . And it only gets worse … Read the entire book...

  • . . . and Roll

    June 19, 2008

    MS 410 England, [15th century] Indulgence Scroll (in Lat. and Eng.) Parchment roll, 1515 x 165 mm., unevenly trimmed at top and bottom, composed of three...

  • Rock, Rock, Rock!

    June 16, 2008

    … Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock! Scenic postcards from the Beinecke Digital Image database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/ Balanced Rock,...