Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

Daniel Webster Learns a Lesson

beineckepoetry — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:01:23 +0000

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 & Company, [c1882]

“Is it a story?” — “No, Daniel; it is the Constitution of the United States.”

At the Beach

beineckepoetry — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:29:03 +0000

Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1902.

The Book of Accidents

beineckepoetry — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:57:17 +0000

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 online: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/getSETS.asp?ITEM=2013671

. . . and Roll

beineckepoetry — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:13:50 +0000

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 membranes segments glued together, the third an addition of the late fifteenth century. Written and decorated area, 1391 x 141 mm. Single bounding lines and guidelines for text (6mm. apart) ruled in lead. Written in gothic liturgical script in brown and red ink.

[For a full catalog description, see: http://webtext.library.yale.edu/beinflat/pre1600.ms410.htm]

Rock, Rock, Rock!

beineckepoetry — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:37:09 +0000

. . . Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock!

Scenic postcards from the Beinecke Digital Image database:
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/

Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods, Colorado

Canopy over Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Pulpit Rock. Presque Isle, Lake Superior

Sugar Loaf Rock, Mackinac Island

Rooster Rock, Columbia River, Oregon

Witches Rock, Weber Canon, Utah

Arch Rock, Santa Cruz, California

Type Cast

beineckepoetry — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:48:02 +0000

Writers at their typewriters.
From the Beinecke Digital Image database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex

William Carlos Williams, 1940s

Eric Knight, [1942?]

H. L. Mencken, 1913

Rachel Carson, undated

Joseph Brodsky, undated

I.I.

beineckepoetry — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:59:42 +0000

Idiot International, a counter-culture magazine focusing on politics,
published out of London, England, 1970-1971 -
possibly related to the longer-lived French publication
“L’idiot international”, but the link is unclear.

The Peculiar Fish

beineckepoetry — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:53:58 +0000

A movable scene from Dean’s Living Strewelpeter [ca. 1890]

Christmas in June

beineckepoetry — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:06:32 +0000

An illustrated writing sheet, printed in London,
filled out with an original Christmas poem
by a young girl named Rebecca Jane Mitchell in New York, 1807.

Hard Time Blues

beineckepoetry — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:15:39 +0000

Photographs of dancer and choreographer Pearl Primus dancing “Hard Time Blues,” her dance based on a folk song about sharecropping by singer Josh White. Primus was well known and widely celebrated for her dance performances based on important African American poems and songs, including “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes and “Strange Fruit” by Lewis Allen. Photographs by Carl Van Vechten, 1943.

Additional resources: Pearl Primus on Wikipedia; Josh White on Wikipedia; Carl Van Vechten on Wikipedia. All photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; the permission of the Trust is required to reprint or use Van Vechten photographs in any way. To contact the Trust email: Van Vechten Trust.