Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities features new acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. This ongoing exhibition is curated by Tim Young, Associate Curator of the Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection, and Nancy Kuhl, Associate Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature.
Additional information about these and other materials in the Beinecke Library’s collections can be found at the Library’s website: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/. Recently acquired materials in the Beinecke Library’s collections can be discovered in the library’s Uncataloged Acquisitions Database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/acqwww/.
Image: [Photograph of a man and a woman leaning on a balustrade].
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your blog is out of control amazing. i’m so happy i found it!
xx joanna
I feel the same way, thank you so much, more more more!
jen
This is a great blog with some incredibly cool information. In an age when so many things are produced by the millions and then thrown away, caring for something rare and easily destroyed that has survived from an earlier time must be quite daunting! Thank you for sharing these acquisitions!