Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Contributor American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title Coming home. [graphic] / Drawn & lith'd at A. 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 children's moral instruction book showing a man, woman, and their three children holding baskets and belongings as they follow an African American porter who carries a trunk for them. Visible in the background is the large steamer the family disembarked at the wharf, probably at the Delaware River.
Is referenced by Wainwright 77
Notes Published as illustration on page 15 in Common Sights in Town & Country Delineated & Described for Young Children (Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, ca. 1855).
Accompanied by text titled "Coming home" moralizes that those who commit themselves to God will be kept from evil and "will arrive at last at a home of perfect joy and peace," since "Heaven is represented as the Christian's home".
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 148
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8341.15
Free Library of Philadelphia:
Library of Congress: Marian S. Carson Collection
Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Porters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Steamboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennnsylvania -- 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 8341.15