Details
Creator Taylor, Charles C., artist.
Contributor Rease, W. H., printer.
Title West Chester Public School. Sanford Culver, principal. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]: Lith. & print by W. H. Rease
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone and hand-colored; 33 x 40 cm.(12.75 x 15.75 in.)
Description Winter view showing heavy street and pedestrian traffic in front of the school house. On the sidewalk, men shovel snow, boys play, a man tethers his horse, and a cluster of girls walks to school. In the street, two boys with a sled try to hitch a ride at the rear of a moving horse-drawn sleigh and a man on horseback and another in a sleigh stop to talk to a boy and man interrupted from shoveling and sweeping snow. Sheds and smaller buildings, including one with a marker dated "1848" surround the main school building.
Notes Not in Wainwright
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 273
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 46 W 522
Subject West Chester Public School (West Chester, Pa.)
Public schools -- Pennsylvania -- West Chester.
Sleds & sleighs -- Pennsylvania -- West Chester.
Winter -- Pennsylvania -- West Chester.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 46 W 522