Semaine Nationale - Five Extras, 1965

Item — Box: CFC Postcards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2021.0090.1-5

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

1965

Extent

5 Cards : "Semaine Nationale de l'enfance." Nine different French postcards (plus extras of FC and "Animals Sick with the Plague") with black-green-and-red colored pictures of La Fontaine's fables on one side and room for a message and address on the other. Just over 3½" x 5½". The visual works are signed "F. LeSourt/Le But." (MSA, "Animals in the Plague," "The Coach and the Fly," and MM are signed by only the former.) "Semaine Nationale de l'enfance" appears above each image and the title of the fable below it. Comité National de l'Enfance, Paris. Paris: S.F.E.I.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

"Les deux taureaux et la grenouille," FC (with a less well printed extra), FS, MSA, TH, TT, and WL. Only FC, MSA, and WL have a clean back. MSA and "Les deux taureaux" seem to have been printed on thicker cardboard stock, and MSA has turned darker over time. My favorites are MSA and FS. In the former the donkey is curled up as though on a litter. In the latter an insect looks on at the chagrined fox. Very nice color combinations! Bertrand seems to indicate that we now have the full set. Mission accomplished!