3D Ant & Grasshopper poster with promotional letter, 2000

Item

Identifier: CFC2020.0010.1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

2000

Extent

1 Linear Feet : The images accompanying each fable appear to have originally been created with pieces of felt, then photographed and reprinted on cardboard. Captions below the images tell the story of the respective fable. Behind each pop-up folder is an advertisement for the medication. Each advertisement came with a letter from the company addressed to the doctor. The letters give a witty description that leads into the selling of the drug, and how the moral of the story relates to health. ; 1” x 11” x 15”

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

“Dear Doctor: We are pleased to send you the fifth 3-dimensional wall unit in our six-part series, Aesop’s fables. It is based on the famous story of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, which teaches us that nobody believes a liar, even when he is telling the truth. Those who are philosophically minded might say that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Was the boy who cried wolf merely playful…”