Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

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

    Player: Molly Wheeler

    September 3, 2014

    Congratulations to Beinecke’s own Molly Wheeler, featured “player” in this week’s New Haven Living PLAYERS: Librarians, By Todd Lyon | Photos by...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Meet Hot Writers

    August 29, 2014

    Literary Speed Dating with the 2014 winners of the Windham Campbell Literature Prizes Tuesday, September 16, 6 PM Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library,...

  • Beautiful Saralee Dolls

    July 31, 2014

    Beautiful Saralee Dolls , Hollis 7, N.Y.: Ideal Toy Corp., [approximately 1950], call numbers: 2014 Folio 475 & 2014 Folio 476 ; associated archival...

  • Baby Beinecke

    July 22, 2014

    In honor of the Beinecke Library’s 50th anniversary in 2013, the Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop hosted a summer class in which students created...

  • Beinecke or Bust

    July 17, 2014

    Sculptural portraits in the Beinecke collections (an incomplete list): Anna Glenny Dunbar (1888-1990) Francis Hyde Bangs (1892-1964) Bronze YCAL MSS 47 Justin...

  • New Scholarship: The Map Thief

    June 24, 2014

    ‘The Map Thief’ by Michael Blanding, reviewed in The Boston Globe, June 7 2014, by Michael Washburn Extravagant crimes don’t always require extravagant tools...

  • New Collection: Miller Scrapbook

    May 20, 2014

    The Beinecke Library has acquired an autograph manuscript diary and scrapbook that documents a trip to Nova Scotia trip by Richard A. Miller and Janet Miller, with their children David and Meredith, from Glastonbury, Connecticut, to Nova Scotia, 1978 July 30-August 13.

  • New Collection: 1920s Cartoons

    May 14, 2014

    The Yale Collection of American Literature has acquired a collection of humorous cartoons by an unidentified American artist, signed "F.G." or "J.G.," that feature a protagonist, Jerry, probably the alter ego of the artist, and his pursuit of women, as well as drinking alcohol, automobiles, and other subjects, circa 1926.

  • The Stellameter by Benson May

    May 9, 2014

    The Stellameter by Benson May Project description: Students in Professor Helfand’s art class were given the final project of creating a cyanometer, or a...

  • UNTITLED by Evelyn Davis

    May 7, 2014

    Created in Professor Jessica Helfand’s spring 2014 freshman seminar about the color Blue, Evelyn Davis’s Untitled is a modern-day conception of...