This document summarizes five bookplates from the Kelvin Smith Library Bookplate Collection, providing details on each owner. It describes the bookplates of Margaret Cleaveland, Blanche Harvey, Albert Holden Higbee, William G. Mather, and Jock Raymond, noting symbols and imagery significant to each person's life and interests that are featured on their personalized bookplates.

1. Five Kalman Kubinyi Works from
the KSL Bookplate Collection
Kelvin Smith Library
Special Collections
July, 2012

2. Margaret Cleaveland
(1892-1984)
A descendant of explorer and
Cleveland founder Moses
Cleaveland, Margaret
Cleaveland chose a mighty
sailing ship as the principle
image on her bookplate. She
was well known for her many
years of service as a librarian
in the Cleveland Public School
System and for her activity in
the Alumnae Association of
the College for Women
(Western Reserve University)
(1915)

3. Blanche Harvey (active
ca.1928-1984)
Blanche Harvey was active in
the Department of Home
Economics at Flora Stone
Mather College for Women,
(Western Reserve University)
for over thirty-five years. She
displayed her love of botany
and books in the image and
inscription chosen for her
bookplate; clearly identified is
a strawberry plant above the
inscription “Inter Folia
Fructus” (between the leaves
of).

4. Albert Holden Higbee
(1922- )
Possibly his bookplate as a
young man (when he was a
member of the Masque and
Brush Junior Drag), Holden
Higbee’s ex-libris features an
aerial view of his childhood
home on Sunshine Farm, and
is embellished with
equestrian themes. Built in
1920 in Gates
Mills, Ohio, Sunshine Farm
was designed by Cleveland
Architect Phillip Small who
collaborated with artist Hugh
Seaver to create a 20 acre
estate overlooking the Gates
Mills Hunt Club and Polo
Fields.

5. William G. Mather (1857-
1951)
Well known Cleveland
industrialist, and prolific book
collector, Mather looked to
his family’s past and present
for illustrations on this
personal bookplate.
Featured at the top is a view
of the main house on
Mather’s elaborate Gwinn
estate. In the center is a book
opened to reveal a portrait of
his ancestor Richard Mather,
father of New England’s
Puritan clerical dynasty.
William G. Mather’s
monogram completes the
design.

6. Jock Raymond (active
ca.1927)
A member of a storied
Cleveland yachting family,
Jock Raymond had as the
central image of his bookplate
a stylized rendering of his
Cape Cod Knockabout “Old
Ironsides.”