Cole (L. Averill) Collection

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Table of contents

Correspondence, manuscripts, volume, medal, ephemera, and scrapbooks 1904-2015

Physical Description: 1.83 Linear Feet(2 boxes)

Scope and Contents

This series includes correspondence, manuscripts, a volume, photographs, a prize medal, ephemera, and scrapbooks.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.

Box 1, Folder 1

L. Averill Cole letter to Lillie Taylor Cole 1929 June

Scope and Contents

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

Box 1, Folder 2

L. Averill Cole postcard. Brussels, to May Bramhall Foster 1906 April 24

Box 1, Folder 3

L. Averill Cole letter to A. S. W. Rosenbach 1928 March 14

Scope and Contents

Also with letter: draft copy of the letter, autograph and printed notes.

Box 1, Folder 4

L ' Ecole de Reliure: graduation diploma for L. Averill Cole for study with Joseph Hendricks 1905 December 31

Box 1, Folder 5

L ' Ecole de Reliure: graduation diploma for L. Averill Cole for study with Louis Jacobs 1906 January 15

Box 1, Folder 6

Louis Jacobs L. Averill Cole in Jacobs' studio, Brussels: two photographs approximately 1904

Box 1, Folder 7

Louis Jacobs Leather monograms, with gold inlay approximately 1906

Scope and Contents

Also enclosed: autograph note, 1969.

Box 1, Folder 8

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 approximately 1918

Box 1, Folder 9

Robert J. Milevski The Extra Binding Operation at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts: talk 2008 February

Box 1, Folder 10

Robert J. Milevski correspondence with Sandra Howland Smith 2006-2008

Scope and Contents

Also includes: photocopies of L. Averill Cole letters.

Box 1, Folder 11

Robert J. Milevski L. Averill Cole: research photocopies 2003-2008

Box 1, Folder 12

George Wolfe Plank letters to L. Averill Cole 1913 October

Scope and Contents

With envelopes; also, six small prints.

Box 1, Folder 13

The Rosenbach Company letters to L. Averill Cole 1928 March-October

Scope and Contents

With envelope; signed by Percy E. Lawler and A.S.W. Rosenbach.

Box 1, Folder 14

Sandra Howland Smith L. Averill Cole Biographical Notes 2015

Box 1, Folder 15

Sandra Howland Smith Selected Fine Bindings of L. Averill Cole (1880-1971): bound volume 2012

Box 1, Folder 16

Marianne Tidcombe correspondence with Sandra Howland Smith 1993-1995

Scope and Contents

With envelopes and research photocopies.

Box 1, Folder 17

University of California, Santa Barbara, letter to Gerald S. Howland and L. Averill Cole Howland 1961 May 12

Scope and Contents

Signed by: Donald C. Davidson, University Librarian.

Box 1, Folder 18

University of Kentucky, Lexington, letter to L. Averill Cole Howland 1953 April 16

Scope and Contents

Signed by: Lawrence S. Thompson, Director of Libraries.

Box 1, Folder 19

Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, gold medal for bindings: framed gold medal 1915

Box 1, Folder 20

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

Box 2, Volume 1

Scrapbook, brown leather, 3-ring binder 1910-1913

Scope and Contents

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

Box 2, Volume 2

Scrapbook, brown leather, bound volume 1911-1954

Scope and Contents

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.

Collection Contents

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