Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Contributor American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title The sea and the ships. [graphic] / Drawn and lith'd at Kollner's Lithy. Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by the American Sunday School Union No. 146 Chestnut St
Date ca. 1855
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 22 x 26 cm. (8.5 x 11 in.)
Description Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a busy wharf, probably on the Delaware River, where laborers use pulleys and ramps to unload boxes, hogsheads, casks, and chests from a recently docked ship. A horse is attached to a pulley and is guided by a laborer to unload these items. Also shows three men weighing barrels on the ground and two men moving long poles or planks of wood under the gaze of a man with a shovel who leans against a post in the right foreground. Another vessel moves along the river in the background.
Is referenced by Wainwright 394
Notes Published as illustration on page 31 in Common Sights in Town & Country Delineated & Described for Young Children (Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, ca. 1855).
Accompanied by text titled "The sea and the ship" praising the vast and various business done by ships, and the skill and talent of the men involved, as these activities are made possible by "Him who formed all the Oceans".
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 685
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8341.31
Library of Congress: Marian S. Carson Collection
Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ships -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Genre prints -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Printer American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bd 61 K 8341.31