Manuscripts

Scrapbook, brown leather, bound volume

Description: Inscribed: To Mother, with dearest love Averill, Sept. 1911. Photographs of bindings, autograph notes, clippings, and printed proofs; some items loose and laid into scrapbook.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1911-1954
Call number: mssCole
Creator: Cole, L. Averill(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller, Inc., April 2015. Transferred to Archival Processing Team, October 2022, formerly Rare Book call number: 645435.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Scrapbook, brown leather, 3-ring binder

Manuscripts

Clippings, photographs, printed material; some items pasted down, but majority have come loose and are only laid into scrapbook.

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Sandra Howland Smith Selected Fine Bindings of L. Averill Cole (1880-1971): bound volume

Manuscripts

A collection of material related to the work of L. Averill Cole, an American bookbinder. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, a volume, photographs, a prize medal, ephemera, and scrapbooks. The correspondents include Louis Jacobs, Robert J. Milevski, George Wolfe Plank, A. S. W. Rosenbach, Sandra Howland Smith, and Marianne Tidcombe; the correspondence also includes a small number of family-related letters. The collection also includes research material on Cole collected by Robert J. Milevski, Sandra Howland Smith, and Marianne Tidcombe. The volume was compiled by Sandra Howland Smith about her grandmother entitled: "Selected Fine Bindings of L. Averill Cole, (1880-1971)."

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L. Averill Cole letter to Lillie Taylor Cole

Manuscripts

Written on six postcards; Lillie T. Cole, L. Averill Cole's mother, was known by the name Donna Rita or Don.

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L. Averill Cole collection

Manuscripts

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L ' Ecole de Reliure: graduation diploma for L. Averill Cole for study with Joseph Hendricks

Manuscripts

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L. Averill Cole postcard. Brussels, to May Bramhall Foster

Manuscripts

mssCole

Scrapbook, brown leather, bound volume

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