Kohlmeyer, Eleanor
2007-73

Box 1 of 2 

General note

Box #1 contains books bound at Newcomb College by Eleanor Kohlmeyer:

--1. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1911

--2. International Studio, January to June 1924. (Bound collection of journals)

--3. International Studio, July to December 1924. (Bound collection of journals)

--4. Eleanor Kohlmeyer's scrapbook of fashions c. 1924

--5. Eleanor Kohlmeyer's scrapbook of art pictures c. 1920s

Box 2 of 2 

General note

Box #2:

--6. Nature Studies art portfolio, drawings and watercolors created from 1924-1925 (includes pencil sketches (mostly nudes), pen and ink drawings (various subjects), watercolors (mostly flowers and abstract designs), and posters and advertisements. There are about 70 items here and include some pen and ink drawings of heads, forms, and a bed; a large pen and ink drawing of a crane (?); “Visit the Zoo”; many watercolor studies of flowers, repeating designs, and a wagon; some large watercolor posters: “Tryouts,” “Hansell’s Good Books,” “D.H. Holmes,” “Hats,” “Carnival Costumes,” “Newcomb Gallery Student Exhibition,” “O’Sullivan Heels.

----a. Snap Shots scrapbook ----b. Clipping - Review of Newcomb Artwork

----c. Print for bookplate for Eleanor Kohlmeyer (Shakespeare quotation);

----d. Examples of booklinings: One inscribed with the designer's process on the back. Several in stained glass style, two in a marbled paper style.

Prints for book plates   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Box #2 contains prints for book plates:

--1. A Merrie Christmas

--2. William Davis Rogers

--3. Respice Ad Finem Haile

--4. Ex Libris: Eleanor H. Behre

--5. We bear each one our own destiny

--6. Ex Libris: Charles Kohlmeyer