S.I.P. Grasshopper and Ant, 1900

Item — Box: CFC Postcards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2021.0046.1

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

1900

Extent

1 Cards : Five black-and-white photographic postcards presenting GA. "98/1" through "98/5." S.I.P. Neither written on nor sent through the post office.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

These cards are consistent with the S.I.P. series on TMCM. The whole verso is, both cases, dedicated to the addressee. Is a series like this something of a "French girly" card offering an excuse to present an attractive woman in less than usual clothing? Was a headdress like that fashionable at the time of the photograph? I had written after finding two cards from the set "Let's see if we can find some more photos from this series!" Good work, Bertrand! The whole set! I include as an extra the colored version of 98/4.