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Place de la Fontaine Quebec City Dinner Menu, 1955

 Item — Box: CFC Artifact Box 18
Identifier: CFC2022.0065.1

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

  • 1955

Extent

1.25 Linear Feet ; 9½" x 14½"

Language of Materials

French

Abstract

Despite my best hopes, I believe that this menu has nothing to do with fables but only with a lovely fountain in Quebec City. But since I have it and can never be sure, I will include it here. A steak cost $21 Canadian at that time. I bet that the price has gone up since then.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

$7.71 from thejumpingfrog through Ebay, May, '08.

  • Printed Fables Webpage

Repository Details

Part of the Creighton University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections Repository

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