Utopian Youth
Undated photograph of W. H. Auden.
Other Rooms, Other Voices
In the parallel universes of the InterWeb, one finds:
Room 26, “one of the most genuine five piece bands on the circuit today.”
Room 26, the North American room in the British Museum.
Room 26, a line of furniture produced in Milan.
Room 26, “a 3000 squared metres venue with the best sound system in Europe located inside the Palace of Ancient Arts, in the EUR area of Rome.”
Room 26, a thumping, deep house track by Josh Moog.
Room 26, the Raphael and Andrea del Sarto Room at the Uffizi Gallery.
Room 26, the website of a 5th grade Chinese language immersion class in San Francisco.
Room 26, a menswear shop in Carlisle, UK.
Room 26, a lovely accommodation in a B&B in Cape May, NJ.
The Great Leap (downwards)
A letter written on an illustrated flyer advertising Dr. Carver’s High-Diving Horse, Klatawah!, and the Girl in Red, a popular fairground attraction that began in the 1880s and lasted through the mid 20th century, with a changing cast of performers. William “Doc” Carver’s daughter-in-law, Sonora became a fixture on Atlantic City’s Steel Pier, and her memoir became the basis for the film Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken.
The Deplorable Deck of Clifford
A deck of etched, printed, hand-colored playing cards created by the artist Nicholas Kahn while a student at Washington University in St. Louis. Missouri.
The Story of Hextor, Clifford, Duncan, and Serge unfolds within . . . Decifer the sordid tale while engaging in poker, hearts or gin . . . Scenes of intimate pain, extraordinary desire.
Mementos
Pages from an album of drawings given to Robert Browning by André-Victor-Amédée, marquis de Ripert-Monclar, ca. 1830s-1860s, with later additions.
Dick Griffith, Bull Rider
Dick Griffith, born to a rodeo family in Canton, Oklahoma in 1913
won four consecutive world-championship bull riding titles from 1939-1942.
He stopped in New York to be photographed by Carl Van Vechten in October, 1940.
Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; permission of the Trust is required to publish Van Vechten photographs in any format. To learn more, contact the Curator, Yale Collection of American Literature.
People of all nations
From: People of all nations : an useful toy for girl or boy. Philadelphia : Published by Jacob Johnson, No. 147, Market-street, 1807 (Whitehall [Pa.] : A. Dickinson)
Two Wheels Good
From: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection
From: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Papers
From: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection
From: Wilder Family Papers
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities 
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