Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

  • Fly, Robin, Fly!

    August 17, 2007

    A newly acquired pop-up/moving flap book (1946, World Publishing). : A scene with flap closed: and opened: And the last page:

  • Palm Beach News

    August 15, 2007

    An alt-culture magazine from Basel, 1976-1982, (later renamed The Village Cry) focusing on fashion, film, music and strange phenomena, edited by photographer...

  • Venice, Piazza of St. Mark

    August 8, 2007

    At the Piazza of St. Mark, Venice, Italy: Williams Carlos Williams & Flossie Williams ; Blanche C. Mathias ; Fania Marinoff & Carl Van Vechten ; Alice...

  • OK!

    August 6, 2007

    Theatre Guild, production of Oklahoma ! [1943].

  • Cats!

    July 31, 2007

    Photograph of chorus line .

  • Topfferiana

    July 27, 2007

    Original sketches by Rodolphe Topffer from an album, ca. 1830s-1840s

  • Who Knows?

    July 27, 2007

    Alexander, the man who knows.

  • Browlia and Frowlia

    July 24, 2007

    [Unknown juvenile artist. Scrapbook of scenes from the lands of Browlia and Frowlia, ca. 1899] The official postage of Browlia One of many curious Browlian...