Listen to Mr. Aesop

Title

en_US Listen to Mr. Aesop

Description

en_US After Jacobs

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Drawings by Walt Huber

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:02Z

en_US 2000-10

en_US 1924

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:02Z

Date Issued

en_US 1924

Abstract

en_US This pamphlet is fascinating not only as a period piece that advertises the Oakland automobile and uses phone numbers that are anywhere between two and five digits long. It also is fascinating for the way it matches an individual business in Harrisburg, PA, with each of the twenty-four fables here. Each fable gets a page and a simple three-color illustration. The fables were selected from Jacobs' edition published by Macmillan. Some matches are natural, e.g. GGE (5) with the Mechanics Trust Company and CJ (6) with a jeweler. BS (8) underscores the strong stitching of a tailor. The Traveler and Fortune (14) promotes an insurance company. Many of the ads have to turn against the fable. Thus after the first fable, The Fox and the Mask (3), we read While clothes do not make the man, they do help to make his reputation. The fable Prometheus and the Making of Man (12) has the moral A Leopard Cannot Change His Spots, but the next sentence proclaims Change, however, is one of nature's immutable and universal laws on the way to offering Hoover & Sons as morticians. Right after the moral Familiarity Breeds Contempt (21), we are admonished This is true in some instances, but in others quite the opposite. We are to get familiar with Walker's Ice Cream. Other matches may be somewhat forced. What does WC (4) really have to do with a haberdashery?! The Man and the Trees (11) somehow turns into an ad for a drug store. WSC (24) differs from the usual version; here the wolf leads a lamb away from the flock and devours it.

Identifier

en_US 3643 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79001

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US J.C. Funk

en_US Harrisburg, PA

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 Jac 1924 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Pamphlet