Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Collection Highlights
The Beinecke Library contains multitudes. These selections of a few highlights represent some of the breadth and depth of materials from across time, place, genre, and format, and hopefully may inspire you to search for yourself throughout the collections. You can search the selected highlights in the box below, but also make sure to search all of the collections through Quicksearch, Archives at Yale, and Yale Library’s Digital Collections.
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Alan Hollinghurst, novelist, poet, editor and translator, has crafted a nearly singular position in modern letters. His debut novel, The Swimming-Pool Library... - ### Alan Pryce-Jones Papers, 1857-2000 (bulk 1915-1990)
The Alan Pryce-Jones Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, manuscripts and printed versions of writings, photographs, scrapbooks, financial papers and... - ### Aleksander Wat Papers
The papers document the life and writings of Aleksander Wat, from his early poetry in the 1910s to the posthumous publication of his work by his wife Paulina (... - ### Alfred Stieglitz Autochromes
A collection of autochromes by Alfred Stieglitz - ### Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O'Keeffe Archive
Photographs, paintings and drawings, letters, and ephemera documenting the lives and careers of Stieglitz and O'Keeffe... - ### Amos Beman Scrapbooks, 1830-1858
Four scrapbooks relating to the life of a 19th century Black minister. - ### An Architectural Wonder
Livy's Ab urbe condita in 15th century Milanese manuscript... - ### Art of the Ketubah: Decorated Jewish Marriage Contracts
Jewish marriage contracts ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries. - ### Arthurian Romances, MS 229
A late thirteenth-century copy of the great French romance. - ### Augusta Savage: Gamin
The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters has recently acquired a sculpture by celebrated Harlem Renaissance artist...