Details
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