Brown and Bigelow, Direct Mail Advertising Calendar, 1929

File — Box: CFC Advertising Box 1

Identifier: CFC2024.0149.1-12

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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

1929

Extent

12 Cards : (Aesop's) Fablegram Series. Twelve monthly calendars for 1930 featuring maxims and Milo Winter illustrations. St. Paul, MN, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Brown & Bigelow. ; 4 3/4" x 10"

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

These are colorful presentations of animal scenes with aphorisms drawn from or like those of Aesop. The illustrations are true Milo Winter, often quite cute and often presenting a fable in different characters and circumstances from the usual. Brown and Bigelow styles themselves as "Specialists in Direct Mail Advertising." Aesop is acknowledged in this set only on the introduction card. One wonders if the card belonged to a different card. One wonders if the card belonged to a different series. Might there have been a first series of Aesop's Fablegrams that was followed by a series of "clever animal scenes with pithy sayings."