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Arents Tobacco Collection

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us: Arents Tobacco Collection



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    • us: New York. Public Library. Arents Tobacco Collection
    • us: New York Public Library. Arents Tobacco Collection
    • us: George Arents Collection on Tobacco
    • us: New York Public Library. George Arents Collection on Tobacco
    • us: Arents Collections
    • us: George Arents Collection

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    • New York. Public Library. Arents Tobacco Collection

  • Sources

    • found: LCCN a48-7664: Forrester, A.H. A few words about pipes, smoking & tobacco, 1947 (hdg.: [New York. Public Library] Arents Tobacco Collection ... )
    • found: LC data base, 11-12-89 (hdg.: New York. Public Library. Arents Tobacco Collection; usage: New York Public Library's Arents Tobacco Collection)
    • found: Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose, 1987: case (drawings ... from Kate Greenaway's sketchbook ... in the Arents Collections of the New York Public Library)
    • found: Tobacco, its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts, and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr., 1937-1943: note on NYPL record ("In 1944, Arents' collection was acquired by The New York Public Library as the Arents Tobacco Collection")
    • found: NYPL files (Letter, 1942 Dec. 15, from George Arents to Frank L. Polk: "I am writing ... to offer to the Trustees of the New York Public Library, as a loan, my 'tobacco collection' ... If the Trustees accept this collection as a loan, I plan ... to give the collection to the Trustees ... but any such gift would be upon the condition that the collection shall be kept together ... and shall be known as the 'George Arents Collection on Tobacco'"; letter from the curator, 2/04/02: "I have used the name 'George Arents Collection' in official correspondence ... when referring to the collection in its entirety")
    • found: RLIN, 2/4/02 (hdgs.: Arents Tobacco Collection; New York Public Library. Arents Tobacco Collection; usage: Arents Tobacco Collection; Arents Tobacco Collection at the New York Public Library)

  • Change Notes

    • 1989-11-13: new
    • 2002-03-06: revised

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