Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

The Eiffel Tower under construction, 1888-1889.

Mack & Mack

(Images from the Bonnie and Semoura Clark Black Vaudeville Collection (Call Number: JWJ MSS 15); for related images see “Ruckus! American Entertainments at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”)

One covers and an interior page from The Blindman,
the Dada magazine published by Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, and Henri Pierre Roche.

Carl Purkart, Vorschriften für den Schwimmunterricht (München, 1826)

Borderline, APool Film with Paul Robeson (Program)

Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1902.

Guy Debord’s Guide psychogeographique de Paris [1957].

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/

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