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The express man. [graphic] / Drawn and lith'd at Kollner's Lithy. Phila.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A64265
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Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Contributor
American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title
The express man. [graphic] / Drawn and lith'd at Kollner's Lithy. Phila.
Publisher
Philadelphia : Published by the American Sunday School Union No. 146 Chestnut Street
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 horse-drawn cart stalled in front of an express office on Walnut Street. The express man looks behind him at an office worker before dismounting to pick up parcels waiting for delivery. Packages, one labeled "St. Louis, Mo.," line the sidewalk in front of the office. Smoke rises from the chimney of a property facing the cross street, along which two pedestrians travel the sidewalk.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 375
Notes
Published as illustration on page 26 in Common Sights in Town & Country Delineated & Described for Young Children (Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, ca. 1855).
Accompanied by text titled "The express man" praising the "continuous line of communication established from one place to another on the principal thoroughfares of travel in our land, and indeed all around the globe" made possible by the public express, which has buildings in "principal cities" for its operations, and is staffed by "secure persons of sober, honest and faithful habits".
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 216
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8341.26
Library of Congress: Marian S. Carson Collection
Subject
Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Express service -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Parcel post -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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 8341.26
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collections
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