Fred A. Rosenstock autograph collection
Scope and Contents
Autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the materials were donated by Fred Rosenstock to Brigham Young University, but some were acquired from different sources. Many of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an autograph collector in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Contains autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an autograph collector in Fort Collings Colorado. The materials are largely letters and autographs produced by prominent American and British authors, editors, politicians, and other important artistic and historical figures in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The items relating to the individual creators are being cataloged separately and will be available on the Brigham Young University cataloging data base. BYU special collections created this artificial collection placing the material in alphabetical order.
Dates
- Creation: 1800-1950
Creator
- Aylesworth, Barton Orville, 1860-1933 (collector, Person)
- Rosenstock, Fred A., 1895- (collector, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Rosenstock autograph collection must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical / Historical
Rosenstock was a manuscript and rare book dealer in Denver, Colorado.
Extent
40 boxes (20 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
Item-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/VMSS2.xml
Custodial History
Most if not all of this collection was donated by Fred Rosenstock to Brigham Young University, but some materials were acquired form different sources.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated; Fred Rosenstock; 1950s--1970s.
Appraisal
19th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts.
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Register of Rosenstock autograph collection
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Rose Frank
- Date
- 2011 October 7
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States