Manuscripts

Correspondence, manuscripts, volume, medal, ephemera, and scrapbooks

Description: This series includes correspondence, manuscripts, a volume, photographs, a prize medal, ephemera, and scrapbooks.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1904-2015
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.

Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, gold medal for bindings: framed gold medal

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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Ephemera: L. Averill Cole bookplate, autograph note, exhibition invitation, photocopy of marriage certificate, printed material

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

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Louis Jacobs Thank you note in the form of an illuminated manuscript, sent to L. Averill Cole for care packages sent during World War I

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L. Averill Cole collection

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

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Correspondence, manuscripts, volume, medal, ephemera, and scrapbooks

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