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The Prat Sisters: Free Spirits of the 1890s

Book bound by Minnie S. Prat: H. Ingalls Kimball, Ten American Painters: A Catalogue (New York, 1898)

H. Ingalls Kimball was a friend of noted Canadian poet, Bliss Carman. Carman was a close friend of the Prat family and had arranged for Minnie's bookbinding apprenticeship with Evelyn Hunter Nordhoff.
Transferred as an artifact from Prat, Starr family fonds to Museum of Industry, 2004.

Date: Bound between 1898 and 1901

Credit: Museum of Industry

Reference:  Museum of Industry  I2004.20.I69

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