George W. Hayes, 1881

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 4

Identifier: CFC2018.0447

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

1881

Extent

24 Cards : 6 colored cards stamped "Copyright 1881 Geo. W. Hayes." Used by various advertisers.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

FS First scene: The Shallow Dish

3 copies, no text on the front and blank on the back, one signed "Willie Groover"

FS Second scene: The Tall Vase

2 copies, no text on the front and blank on the back 1 copy, no text on front and advertisement for Ackerman Bros. Crockery, San Francisco, on the back 1 copy, American Exchange Hotel, San Francisco, information on the front and an engraving of the hotel on the back 1 copy, "Buy Garland Stoves and Ranges" on the front and a Garland seal on the back, with a stamp on the back from a hardware dealer in Pulaski, NY 1 copy, "Wheeler & Pierson, Clothiers, New Orleans" on the front and nothing on the back; the card is cropped around the edges and bent on its left side

FG:

3 copies, no text on the front and blank on the back 1 copy, with "Buy Garland Stoves and Ranges" hung on the grapes-wall as a sign by means of a clever use of a stamp; there is a Garland seal on the back 1 copy, with "Beware of Glucose Candy: It is absolutely Poison" printed across the top! It goes on: "Baxter, 100 South Salina cor., Jefferson St., Syracuse, N.Y." Blank back. $12 from Alice Kasten, Great Neck, NY, through Ebay, July, '99

OF:

1 copy, no text on the front and blank on the back; the cigar-smoking bull looks down with a magnifying glass on the formally dressed frog!

TMCM Scene I: Country Meal on a Mushroom while overdressed CM looks away

1 copy, no text on the front and blank on the back 1 copy, no text on the front and remnants of pasted scrapbook on the back 1 copy, no text on the front and "R.H. Hatzfeld, Successor to Adolph G. Vogeler, Pharmacist, Chicago" on the back 1 copy, "Buy Garland Stoves and Ranges" on the front with an additional stamp, "Sold by Adolph Berens,Wyandotte, Mich." and a Garland seal on the back

TMCM Scene II: The Cat Arrives

3 copies, no text on the front and blank on the back