Milne Wood Frictographic Pamphlets, 1900

Item — Box: CFC Advertising Box 1

Identifier: CFC2021.0298.1-2

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

1900

Extent

2 Sheets : Two frictographic advertising pamphlets for Wood-Milne, an apparent manufacturer of rubber shoe heels. "Les Fables de La Fontaine."

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

This is surely one of the more curious parts of the collection! Fortunately, there has been little attempt to do what the instructions on the inside back cover, as featured in Bertrand's photo below, call for: rubbing the apparently empty inside pages to find each revealing a fable of La Fontaine. Clever attempts on my scanner have failed to make the outlines of these images appear without rubbing the pages. I will certainly take Bertrand's word for it that these two pamphlets are rare, and I suspect that having both of them, with different sets of fables in each, is even rarer. My, where fables show up can be surprising!