Ronald B. Tobias postcard collection on Yellowstone National Park, 1905-1974

The Ronald B. Tobias postcard collection of postcards pertaining to Yellowstone National Park is an assembled collection of commercially produced postcards. The postcards come from a wide array of publishers including Acmegraph, American Import, W.S. Berry, Franz Huld, E.C. Kropp, Northern Pacific, and Robbins Brothers, among others. In assembling the collection, Tobias used Michael Francis's and Kathleen Burke's Yellowstone Postcard checklist, 1897-1951 as a reference, checking off individual postcards in his collection. This is not a complete compendium of all postcards related to Yellowstone but the collection includes a large number of the postcards on Francis and Burke's checklist. Burke and Francis do not appear to have any connection to this collection, but their checklist likely informed Tobias's collecting efforts. His collection also extends past these dates from 1905-1974.

The collection contains multiple copies of most postcards, with an encapsulated master within each set.