| Creator: | Tober, Frank W., 1919-1995 | |
| Title: | Frank W. Tober papers | |
| Date(s): | 1791-1995 | |
| Call No: | MSS 0602 | |
| Abstract: | The Frank W. Tober papers comprise letters, postcards, photographs, pamphlets, magazines, newspaper clippings, newsletters, printing ephemera, invoices, notebooks, woodblocks, prints, coins, sculpture, and other realia. A major portion of the[...] papers relate to Tober's collections and collecting activities. Tober was a chemical engineer with a substantial personal interest in the study of rare books, printing, Napoleon and the French Revolution, and, in particular, literary forgery. | |
| Subjects: | Collectors and collecting--History--20th century | Book collectors--History--20th century | France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799 | Appraisals (records) | More Subjects | |