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During the 1960s, Claes Oldenburg's sculpture "Lipstick on a Caterpillar Track" was displayed in Beinecke Plaza.
In the late 19th century the rarer and more valuable books of the Library of Yale College were placed on special shelving at the Old Library (now Dwight Hall). These were moved to the Rare Book Room collection of Sterling Memorial Library when it opened in 1930. When the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library opened its doors on October 14, 1963, it had become the home of the volumes from the Sterling Memorial Library Rare Book Room, and three special collections--the Collection of American Literature, the Collection of Western Americana, and the Collection of German Literature. Shortly afterward, they were joined by the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection. Beinecke Library became the repository for books in the Yale collection printed anywhere before 1601, books printed in Latin America before 1751, books printed in North America before 1821, newspapers and broadsides printed in the United States before 1851, European tracts and pamphlets printed before 1801, and Slavic, East European, Near and Middle Eastern books through the eighteenth century, as well as special books outside these categories.
The holdings of the Beinecke Library include
American Children's Literature , John James Audubon (including two copies of the double elephant folio of Birds of America ), James M. Barrie, John Baskerville, William Thomas Beckford, Sir John Betjeman, John BoswellJohn Eastburn Boswell ( March 20, 1947 December 24, 1994), a gay historian, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at the College of William and Mary and at Harvard University. He became a professor of history at Yale University, and helped organ, BryherBryher (born 1894 died 1983) was the pen name of Annie Winnifred Ellerman . She was born in September 1894 in Margate. She travelled in Europe as a child, to France, Italy and Egypt. At the age of fourteen she was enrolled in a traditional English boardin, CartographyCartography (or mapmaking is the study and practice of making maps or globes. Maps have traditionally been made using pen and paper, but the advent and spread of computers has revolutionized cartography. Most commercial quality maps are now made with map, including the " Vinland MapThe Vinland map is purportedly a 15th century map of the world, redrawn from a 13th century original. Its importance is that, in addition to showing Africa, Asia and Europe, the map depicts a body of land across the Atlantic called Vinland, which the map", Ernst CassirerErnst Cassirer ( July 28, 1874 April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. He became a doctor of philosophy at University of Marburg in 1899 where he studied with Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp, thus being widely considered a neo-Kantian although he later de, Congregationalism, Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad ( December 3, 1857 August 3, 1924) was a Polish-born British novelist. Born Jozef Teodor Nalecz Konrad Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857 in Berdyczow, in what is now Ukraine, he was brought up in Russian-occupied Poland. His father, an impove, Walter CraneWalter Crane ( 1845 1915) was a significant English artist. Born in Liverpool he was part of the arts and crafts movement. He produced paintings, illustrations, childrens books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. Crane, Walter Crane, Walter., Dada, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Norman Douglas, Jonathan Edwards, George Eliot, the Elizabethan Club collection (composed of about 300 volumes of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, including the first four folios of Shakespeare, the Huth Shakespeare quartos, and first or early quartos of all the major dramatists; Erasmus and his contemporaries; Faust, Henry Fielding, Benjamin Franklin, Goethe, Greek and Latin Literature , Thomas Hardy, Humanism, Incunabula (over 3100 volumes including the Melk copy of the Gutenberg Bible); the James Weldon Johnson Collection; James Joyce, Judaica , Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, pre-1660 manuscripts (including more than 1,100 medieval and Renaissance codices and several hundred manuscript fragments dating from the fourth century through the Renaissance, as well as the Voynich Manuscript); Thomas Mann, John Masefield, the Mellon Collection of Alchemy and the Occult , George Meredith, Ornithology, the Papyrus Collection , Playing Cards , Polish Literature, Dorothy Richardson, Rilke, Rochambeau Family , Bruce Rogers , the Romanov Family, John Ruskin, Russian Literature, Schiller, Sixteenth-Century Printed Books , Sporting Books , the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Collection; Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Vanderbilt Collection , Rebecca West, the Thornton Wilder papers, and Kurt Wolff .