Merrill Lynch Advertisements 1950's
Scope and Contents
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
- 1996
Extent
From the Collection: 800 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
In the 1950's Merrill Lynch did a set of one-column black and white advertisements telling fables, attributing them to Aesop, offering for each an illustration, an application of the fable to investing, and an offer of help in answer to inquiries. The artist signs himself as Van Scheiber or Schierber or something similar. My copies all come from 237 studio on Ebay for $6 to $10. The first came to me in 2006 and the others in 2024. That is perseverance on the part of both of us!
Repository Details
Part of the Creighton University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections Repository