Evelyn Nordhoff Bindery Explained

The Evelyn Nordhoff Bindery was the continuation of Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff's Elephant Bindery at 39 Washington Place in New York City. Left to two of her students, Florence Foote and possibly May Rosina Prat or Minnie Prat, after Nordhoff's death in 1898, the Elephant Bindery was still located at Nordhoff's home in 1899 at 115 East 56th Street in New York City.^{[1] [2]}

The Elephant Bindery was later reestablished as the Evelyn Nordhoff Bindery by the Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff Association, honoring Nordhoff's desire to form a school of industrial arts for women, to include the bindery and leatherwork among other arts. The bindery school was run principally by bookbinder Florence Foote, being an important studio which opened up the teaching the whole craft of bookbinding to women (as opposed to limited by union rules to only folding, sorting, sewing pamphlets or endbands).^{[3] [4]} The Nordhoff Bindery was at some point relocated to the Art Students' League in New York City.^[5]

Students

Known students include:

• Edith Diehl

Further reading

• The Nordhoff Bindery Exhibit. - Article - NYTimes.com
• Hand Bookbinding Among Women - Article - NYTimes.com

Notes and References

1. Book: The Chautauquan. 30 March 2013. 1900. Chautauqua Press. 144–.
2. Book: Current Literature. 30 March 2013. 1899. Current Literature Publishing Company. 384–.
3. News: Bookbinding as an art. 30 March 2013. The New York Times. July 22, 1900.
4. Book: Van Kleeck, Mary. Women in the bookbinding trade 1850-1911. 1913. Survey Associates, Inc. for The Russell Sage Foundation. New York.
5. News: Bowdoin. W.G.. BOOKBINDING.; Progress in the Art During the Past Year -- Exhibitions of Bookbindings.. 28 March 2013. New York Times. 14 January 1905.