Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

I posted about the amazing blog Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities back in 2008. I decided to expand that post and hence spent many hours getting lost in the virtual stacks last night. (This also lead to the post on Psyche & Muse.)

About the blog:

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, Curator of the Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection, and Nancy Kuhl, Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature.

Plus you can now stop obsessing over how to make Marianne Moore's dressing.

Every rare book library needs a Nancy & Tim.

Edith Wharton and two dogs
Direct link to view large.

This sent me right back to Literary Pets

"No leaning out." Circular Bridge, Mt. Lowe Railway (Altadena, California), ca. 1897-1924

These make me want to do another photochrome post

Cliff House at Night

"A set of round prints for use in a phenakistiscope, an early device that took advantage of persistence of vision to show continuous motion, including several designed by Edward Sang, and published by the maker of optical instruments, John Dunn." [read more]