Webster Tome Just Keeps On Printing --Cagle

The collection was bequeathed to Columbia by Albert Field, a teacher, author, mountain climber, nudist and Salvador Dali archivist. Field began amassing playing cards because they were the only souvenirs he could find while visiting decimated Europe following World War II.

As an aside, Field became close with Dali and asked the surrealist artist if anyone was keeping tabs of his lithographs and other prints. Dali invited Field to tackle the chore, and he later published an official catalog of Dali’s prints in 1996, according to the AP.