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Minna Gombel Bookplate
A bookplate designed for Minna Gombel. The artist is unknown.
Gombel was a famous American theatre actress, whose successful career on stage ran from 1912 to the end of the 1920s. She made her Broadway debut in 1913, in a production of Madam…
The Gordon Lester Ford Collection, Bookplate
The Gordon Lester Ford Collections, presented by his sons, Urnthington Chaucer Fund and Paul Leicester Ford to the New York Public Library. The artist is unknown.
Olive V. Sinclair Bookplate
A bookplate from the library of Olive V. Sinclair. The artist is unknown.
George Henry Corey, bookplate
A bookplate created for George Henry Corey. The artist is unknown.
Hamilton Club Library of Chicago, Rathbone Memorial, June 1929
A bookplate created for the Hamilton Club Library of Chicago, for the Rathbone Memorial.
This bookplate is also part of the special collections department in the Kent State University Library: http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/printing/wiechel.html
Anne M.H. Brewster, Bookplate
A bookplate created for Anne M.H. Brewster. The artist is unknown.
Columbus Memorial Library of the Pan-American Union, Washington D.C., U.S.A
A bookplate created for the Columbus Memorial Library of the Pan-American Union, located in Washington D.C., U.S.A. The artist is unknown.
"The Gospel Train" reversed title text and train image with a 4-8-4 steam locomotive, ca. 1930s-1940s, on a copper plate attached to a wood block for a header on a traditional printing press
This is a reversed relief image of a train (4-8-4 steam locomotive, tender, and five cars) on a track and passing a signal. The words "the Gospel Train" are spelled in reverse, the title of a song, perhaps of African-American traditional origin, and…
