Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

. . . it is a strikingly beautiful image.

Natalia Gontcharova’s cover for Lord Berners’ song, “Poisson d’Or”, 1919.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/a/amory-berners.html
http://www.bookrags.com/Natalia_Goncharova

Selected images from a collection of novelty baseball postcards, circa 1910 (Call Number: Gen MSS File 359).

A set of 5 (out of 6 published) titles in the Captain Ginger series,
written by Isabel Anderson and published in 1910 & 1911. (Boston : C.M. Clark).
These copies were the author’s own, specially bound in limp suede covers.

Fore-edge photograph of a collection of programs issued by the Writer’s Forum reading series at SUNY Brockport, 1968-1975. The collection was complied by poet William Heyen, one-time director of the Forum. Each program includes a poem by and a photograph of the featured poet; most are signed by the poet. Poets represented include: W.S. Merwin, Diane Wakoski, John Hollander, Richard Wilbur, Galway Kinnell, William Stafford, Robert Creeley, John Berryman, Robert Bly, Nadine Gordimer, Louis Simpson, Erica Jong, C.K. Williams, Richard Howard, Carolyn Kizer, Ishmael Reed, Robert Bly, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, Richard Hugo, Marge Piercy, James Tate, William Matthews, Richard Eberhart, among others. Related collections: William Heyen Papers; Heyen Papers Addition; Al Poulin and Boa Editions Papers; additional materials may be located in the Beinecke Library’s Uncataloged Acquisitions Database.

Selected posters and lobby advertisements featuring key scenes and lead actors in silent western films, circa 1910-1930.

Complete description of the collection: Western Silent Film Lobby Card Collection (Call Number: WA MSS S-2553); additional images from the collection: Western Silent Film Lobby Card Collection Images.

“Thunder Riders”

Buddy Roosevelt in “The Ramblin’ Galoot”

“The Pony Express,” A James Cruze Production

“The Covered Wagon,” A James Cruze Production

Don Coleman in “The Bronc Stomper”

Tom Mix and “Tony” the Wonder Horse in “Horseman of the Plains”

Selected manuscript fragments from the Walt Whitman Collection (YCAL MSS 202)

As in a Swoon

Man-of-War Bird

Rise Lurid Stars

With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea

Mural painted by Native American writer Leslie Silko (detail, context)
(Uncat MSS 705 Box 11)

. . . and harried pets. [circa 1890, in the collection of the Beinecke Library
as part of a salesman's sample book, including Young People's History of the World. Possibly never published.]

Images of the Delsarte system of expression, popularized in the 1880s
and found in the volume: The Popular Entertainer and Self-Instructor in Elocution
(Chicago: Conkey, 189 [in the collection of the Beinecke Library as part of a salesman's sample book, including Wood's Natural History for Children]

More printing examples from Die Deutsche Werbegraphik (Berlin : Verlag Francken & Lang, 1927)

An image of John Law as Don Quixote, from the volume:
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, Amsterdam, 1720,
the focus of a conference to be held at Yale University,
April 17-19, 2008: http://icf.som.yale.edu/GREAT_MIRROR/

Every book published by Julien Torma (one of the “dada suicides”) during his lifetime.
The Beinecke Library is listed as the only location that holds all four.

An 1829 poem on Leigh Park, a suburb of Hampshire, England, when it was still a bucolic estate.
With a tenderly enlightening footnote.

An advertising flyer from the Dorian Book Service, which offered
gay- and lesbian-themed publications in the 1960s.

[View the large size to read the hilarious introduction -
using what can be considered today "sanctioned vocabulary".]

Back patterns for American playing cards
(from the Cary Collection)

USA3

USA167

USA10

USA9

USA21

USA6

USA2

USA7

A group of little books by the [insert puzzling or inadequate adjective here] English artist.
[The title of the third book is: Drawings Done Whilst On Phone To Idiot]

Pages from Transvestia, a magazine published in Los Angeles, California between 1960 and the early 1980s,  edited by Virginia Charles Prince. The magazine was one of the principal modes of information and contacts for transvestites in the United States.

Most issues featured life stories, such as Gloria’s

Zora Neale Hurston, photographed by Prentis Taylor

Billie Holiday and Mister, photographed by Carl Van Vechten

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Joseph Brodsky and his cat, photographed by Julia Schmalz

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Eugene and Carlotta O’Neill with Ben and Blemie

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Eric Knight and Toots

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Young Rachel Carson with her dog

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Witold and Rita Gombrowicz with Psina

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F.T. Marinetti and Friends

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Esther Newton and her dog, photographed by Robert Giard

Posters from Die Deutsche Werbegraphik (Berlin : Verlag Francken & Lang, 1927)