Tuck -Up To Date
Scope and Contents
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
- 1996
Extent
From the Collection: 800 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: German
Abstract
Thirty unnumbered colored post cards, including English, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and Portugese printings. There are six basic pictures--or at least I have found that many so far. F. Sancha seems to sign each card. Fables are used here to satirize Germany. The fable texts on the message side appear in Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, or English on individual cards; any words printed on the image side shift correspondingly. English cards are all marked "Raphael Tuck and Sons' 'Oilette' Postcard No. 8484." Copyright London. Printed in England. Raphael Tuck and Sons. One set in English came in its own frail original envelope: "German Aims, Shown up by the Celebrated Spanish Artist Francisco Sancha in Aesop's Fables Up -to-Date."
Repository Details
Part of the Creighton University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections Repository