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Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Contributor
American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title
[Proofs before titles of lithographs for City Sights for Country Eyes] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: Published by the American Sunday School Union, 316 Chestnut St
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date
[ca. 1856]
Physical Description
12 prints: lithographs with one tint stone; 11 x 14 cm (28 x 36 in.) or smaller.
Description
Twelve untitled proofs of prints for the 1856 children’s moral instruction book “City Sights for Country Eyes” depicting scenes of daily urban life, particularly men at work. Professions include draymen, oyster seller, ice carter, rag tender, wagoner, express man, butcher, and baker. All the views show a horse-drawn vehicle, including drays, carts, and wagons. Cityscape, including storefronts, warehouses, and wharves are visible in the background of many of the prints. Scenes also include street and pedestrian traffic (men and women); dogs running by; lamp posts; trees, some in cages; and docked and sailing ships.
Notes
Plates signed variably A. Kollner Lith. Phila.; AKollner’s Lithy Philada; A. Kollner Lithy Phila.; Lithy of A. Kollner; Lithy of A. Kollner, Philada.; and A. Kollners Lithy. Phila.
Printed below image on some of the prints: From life New York; From Life; From Life, Phila.; From nat. at New York; From Life at Washington, D.C.; From Life Baltimore; and From Life at Philada.
Published titles include: To the Depot; The Heat; Cheek By Jowl; “Prime Oysters!”; Summer Luxuries; Waiting for a Job; The Rag-Tailor/ [Tender]; The Wharf; The Slow Coach; The Express; The Butcher; and The Staff of Life.
Gift of Roy T. Lefkoe and Sydney A. Lefkoe.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 294.1-12
See POS 71; 249; 631; 716; 728; 757; and 834.
Housed in clamshell box.
To be digitized.
Subject
Bakers.
Butchers.
Carts & wagons.
Dogs.
Horse-drawn vehicles.
Horses.
Laborers.
Peddlers & peddling.
Piers & wharves.
Storefronts.
Warehouses.
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Printer
American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - City Sights [P.2009.14]
Accession number
P.2009.14
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