Dog and Shadow Card, 1896

Item — Box: CFC Chocolate and Chicoree Cards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0270.1

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.

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Dates

1896

Extent

1 Cards : 1 French card picturing DS in a human scene. Chocolat Poulain. Printer not acknowledged. ; 4¼" x 2½"

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

I am not sure I understand the human application of DS here. Has the child sacrificed a toy, or has the man with the cane given up a real child for a toy? A policeman hurries to the scene. I believe I have found Poulain sponsoring four different kinds of fable cards. The verso has the text of La Fontaine's fable and identifies it as such. The style of these two cards seems similar enough to suspect that they are part of a stock set.