The Prat Sisters: Free Spirits of the 1890s

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Minnie S. Prat at the Elephant Bindery, New York City

Minnie Prat began her apprenticeship with noted bookbinder, Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff, at the Elephant Bindery, in October 1897. Minnie was soon followed by her sister, May Rosina, who studied beaten leather work, as well as bookbinding, with Nordhoff. Nordhoff died unexpectedly on November 2, 1898, at the age of 33, after a brief illness. Minnie, May Rosina, and other former students kept the Elephant Bindery going after Nordhoff's death. By 1900, Minnie and May Rosina had opened their own bindery and leather working studio, the Primrose Bindery, at 37 West 22nd Street.

Date: ca. 1899

Format: Photograph in album

Reference no.: Prat, Starr family NSARM 1985-524 no. 86, photo no. 10

Negative no.:
N-4444