Why is it called Ovaltine?
An album of photographs showing the Ovaltine manufacturing plant in King’s Langley in Herfordshire, England (A.Wander Ltd, London & King’s Langley. Views of Works & Offices. 1923.)
For our God is a consuming Fire.
A New-England Primer printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1764.
The New-England primer enlarged. For the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which is added, the Assemblys catechism. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, in Market-street, 1[7]64
Works of Industry of All Nations
A scrapbook, compiled by William Paxon, an exhibitor at The Great Exhibition of 1851 (The Crystal Palace Exhibition). In addition to flyers and cards gathered at the stalls of fellow exhibitors, Paxon appears to have helped himself to examples of placards that were intended to remain where they were.
Paxon, from Hampstead, exhibited a device called the “Lunarian, an improved contrivance for showing phases of the moon.”
Canvassing for Suffrage
A booklet with printed slips (one of which is filled in) used by canvassers for the Society of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in the England, circa 1911.
Beware of Foreign Lobsters!
A series of broadsides from 1715, forming a dialogue
arguing for and against the presence of foreign fishermen in English waters.
“. . . not to instruct the vicious . . .”
A self-explanatory guide to trapping birds and game, England, ca. early 19th century.
Watch out little birdie!
Clarification, please.
An 1829 poem on Leigh Park, a suburb of Hampshire, England, when it was still a bucolic estate.
With a tenderly enlightening footnote.
Goliard Press
A selection of publications (which brings Beinecke’s collection to near completeness) from the press run by Tom Raworth and Barry Hall in the late 1960s.
Jeremy Reed, extraordinaire
A few poems from the latest group of archives from the prolific poet, biographer, critic and chronicler Jeremy Reed, whose writings cover an expanse of 20th and 21st century culture and whose mission, in his own words, is “to rehabilitate the dispossessed” [An in-depth interview can be found here]
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities 
leave a comment