Gold Medal Flour, 1906

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0332

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

1906

Extent

2 Cards : "The Fable of the Judge and the Loaves." Gold Medal Flour advertising postcard. Sent to Mrs. H. Smith, Kent, Conn. and postmarked 1906 in Minneapolis. "The Fable of the Rich Man and His Appetite." Gold Medal Flour advertising postcard. Sent to Mrs. J.W. Blaisdell, Hunnwell Ave., Newton, Mass.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The picture side of this postcard has a title across its top, a strong colored picture taking about two-thirds of the remaining space, and a text of the fable climaxing in "Moral: -- Use Gold Medal Flour." A handwritten addition below goes on "For sale by - Watson and Morehouse." The picture and text -- but not the layout -- are identical with one of the center pages of Comic Fables with Morals Advertising Washburn-Crosby's Gold Medal Flour. I will crosslist this find with postcards and keep the card with other postcards. To see the pamphlet page, click here. To compare the two, click here.

The picture side of this postcard has a title across its top, a strong colored picture taking about two-thirds of the remaining space, and a text of the fable climaxing in "Moral: -- Use Gold Medal Flour." A handwritten addition below goes on "For sale by - W.S. Hayden."