Der Wolf und das Schaf: 10 Fabeln für unsere Kinder, 1935

File — Box: CFC Fables Cards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2021.196.1

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

1935

Extent

10 Cards : Ten pages in an envelope. Black-and-white images signed by "Gerd." ; About 4" x 6"

Language of Materials

German

Additional Description

Abstract

I presume that we found these at Black Swan in Oakland. I found an offer on German Ebay guessing that these were done in 1935-40. The surprising things in this set include the German "Fraktur" Gothic script, hard for many of us to read. A further surprise is the ultra-thin paper used for these ten "cards." I have debated whether to list them as pages or as cards, and finally decided to list them under cards – because, though they are not on cardstock, they do what cards usually do – and to offer a link under printed "fable pages." The third surprise is the way these ten cards integrate known fables with other events. As I look through the pages, I notice these traditional fables: "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"; WL; and WC. These three are something of a trunk for branching out to other stories. I am not even sure that one can know the exact order of the ten "episodes." The images are well defined and strong.