Rowfant Club Photographs 1880-1960

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Rowfant Club Photographs 1880-1960

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The Rowfant Club is a Cleveland, Ohio, club open by invitation only to men of diverse business and professional interests whose bond is a love of books, book collecting, and the art of bookmaking. Organized in 1892, the club chose to identify itself with Frederick Locker-Lampson by adopting the name of his Sussex County, England, estate, "Rowfant." The club insignia, groundhog and candles, are used in initiation and election procedures. The collection consists of photographs, postcards, negatives, and sketches relating to the Cleveland Rowfant Club, its members, activities, facilities, and other related subjects. Photographs include individual and group portraits of members, interior and exterior views of the Rowfant Club, views of objects, other Rowfant Clubs, paper-making, photographs related to literary figures, and libraries.

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click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for the Rowfant Club The Rowfant Club was founded on February 29, 1892 by a group of Cleveland, Ohio, book lovers and book collectors. The Club's purposes are to study the technical aspects of bookmaking and collecting as well as the literary side of books, and occasionally to publish for its members fine quality, limited editions of books of special interest. The Club was named for Rowfant, the Sussex Count...