S.I.P. TMCM, 1905

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 3

Identifier: CFC2018.0366

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

1905

Extent

3 Cards : "Le Rat de Ville et le Rat des Champs." 3 photographic cards out of a set of 5(?).

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

Cards #2, #3, and #5 show scenes in which two distinctively clad women -- with significant décolletage -- present scenes from TMCM. In the first, the country woman is pouring wine for the woman in a sophisticated dress. In the second, both are alarmed by something offstage. In the third the country woman is bidding the courtly woman adieu. Each card's front quotes four not necessarily continuous lines from La Fontaine's fable. There seems to have been a certain fascination with portraying La Fontaine's fables through the relatively new medium of photography. Are these also exemplars of the French "girly" postcard? If so, they are quite tame by present-day standards. This series is consistent with a single card we have from a GA series by S.I.P.