The Evelyn Nordhoff Bindery was the continuation of

Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff (b. ca. 1865 – d. November 2, 1898) was America's first female bookbinder and printmaker. Biography Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff was the daughter of Charles Nordhoff and studied design with May Morris, the daughter of Will ...

'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. 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

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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

endband An endband is a cylindrical band sewn and/or glued to the head and tail of the spine of a book. It is slightly raised above the bookblock. An endband along the top edge of the book is called a ''headband'', and one along the bottom edge is called ...

s). The Nordhoff Bindery was at some point relocated to the

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in New York City.

Students

Known students include: * Edith Diehl

Students

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