Adomeit, Ruth E.

Variant names

Dates:

Birth 1910-01-30

Death 1996-02-16

Biographical notes:

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Adomeit attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts and worked as an elementary school teacher. She collected miniature books throughout her life and from 1960 to 1962 wrote Miniature Book Collector, a quarterly publication. Later, Adomeit co-founded the Miniature Book Society and in 1980 published Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, the standard reference work for these books. James DeLancey was a colleague in the miniature book trade and co-author of My Favorite Miniature Book with Ruth Adomeit and several others.

From the description of Papers, 1961-1995. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 743326907

Daughter of painter George Adomeit. Born January 30, 1910.

From the description of Ruth E. Adomeit papers, 1907-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552375

Ruth Elizabeth Adomeit, 1910-1996, was a miniature book collector and bibliographer. She was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and worked as a secretary and research assistant in engineering, and as an elementary school teacher until her retirement. Collecting miniature books was her lifetime passion, begun with gifts from her father while she was at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She edited the Miniature Book Collector, a quarterly publication which consisted of eight issues, plus an index, from 1960 to 1962. Following the demise of this publication, she and other miniature book enthusiasts founded the Miniature Book Society and Adomeit served as editor of the Society's Newsletter for several years. Throughout this time and into the 1990's, she wrote several articles and spoke at various venues on miniature book collecting. In 1980 she completed the bibliography, Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles (New York: Garland Pub., 1980), the standard reference work for these books.

From the guide to the Adomeit Mss. II, 1950s-1995, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington) http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly)