Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

Out of Print

Posted in Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature by beineckepoetry on December 21, 2009

Magazines of yesteryear.

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Snowshoe Club

Posted in Beinecke Library by beineckepoetry on December 17, 2009

Geo. M. Fairchild, Jr., President of the Oritani Snowshoe Club of New York,
in the woods of his seignorial estate, Deschambault, Canada.

Walter McClintock, Return to camp on snowshoe trail, evening

Snow shoe – card for Merriam Webster Dictionary

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As in a Mirror

Posted in Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection by beineckepoetry on December 14, 2009

A plate from The magic lantern; or, Les ombres patriotiques…
London: Printed for J. Owen, No.168, Picadilly, opposite Bond-street, 1794.

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Going Up

Posted in Beinecke Library by beineckepoetry on December 10, 2009

The Eiffel Tower under construction, 1888-1889.

And completed, as seen in 1941.

Admit One (or Two)

Posted in Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature by beineckepoetry on December 7, 2009

An assortment of tickets in Beinecke Library collections.

A 1000 mile ticket on the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe Railway Company, 1901:

An airplane ticket for Alfred Stieglitz, 1929:

Admission to the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia:

The 1939 Golden Gate Exposition:

And Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 1900 and 1892:

[Photograph of a unidentified man in an overcoat standing next to a dog on a pedestal.]

Posted in Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection by beineckepoetry on December 2, 2009

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