Unlike yesterday's generic (but delightful) bookplate, this is the ultimate personalized bookplate. It's a photograph of Hazel S. Rork and her spaniel sitting in front of a bookshelf, and it's featured on the inside front cover of 1937's First Editions of To-Day and How to Tell Them, by H.S Boutell.
Hazel Spatz Rork Schmuck lived from 1905 to 1993 and appears to have been a lifelong Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, resident. She was a 1926 graduate of Millersville University, when it was called Millersville State Normal School. She served for many years as a teacher in the School District of Lancaster, which was established in 1836 and is apparently the second-oldest school district in Pennsylvania.
I can't find much else about her, but she does have a wonderful legacy, in that a bequest from her estate established the Hazel Rork Schmuck Alumni Scholarship in 1995 at Millersville. So her life's devotion to education continues today.
That is one handy way to ensure if you lose your book that it actually gets back to you!
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