Cats!

Photograph of chorus line.

Topfferiana

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

Who Knows?

Alexander, the man who knows.

 

 

Browlia and Frowlia

[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 beasts – the Lizard of Horlon

 

A limerick about cats

Mabel in Re-pose

Mabel Dodge Luhan, n.d.

Anarchy in the UK

Anarchism Lancastrium. #5, Lancaster, England, September 1975.

Monster Piglet

Pierre LEGENDRE. Crackville. Paris. Ancienne Librairie Furne. 1898

Party

Party for Grace and James Weldon Johnson … Studio of Mr. Charles Studin. Drawing by Aaron Douglas. [Invitation]

Welcome!

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/