Chocolat Poulain Gold Background Cards, 1910

File — Box: CFC Chocolate and Chicoree Cards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0268.2.1-4

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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

1910

Extent

4 Cards : Four trade cards advertising Chocolat Poulain. H. 217. Gold background. Children pictured in a painted scene from a La Fontaine fable.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

The scenes look familiar, even though they occupy only about 60% of the front of the card. The rest is "Chocolat Poulain: Goutez & Comparez" along with the title and first 25 words or so of the fable, presented in prose. I continue to struggle with the taste that has a male child acting the role of the dying father entrusting his treasured land to his children, or a female child acting the "old woman" here – elsewhere she is a nurse or mother – threatening to give the child to the wolf. The fable of the "travelers" here is the story of seeming to see a ship from afar that turns out, on closer inspection, to be some floating sticks. The verso repeats the beginning lines from the front, complete with a moral.