Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Title The staff of life. [graphic] / From life Phila. A. Kollner lithy. Phila.; A. Kollner fec.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by the American Sunday School Union, Chestnut Street
Date [1856]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone ; 23 x 29 cm. (9 x 11.5 in.)
Description Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a baker driving a horse-drawn cart down the street, which is being swept by a woman in the background. The baker, outfitted in a high hat and frock coat, stands between two bread boxes on the cart. A neat row of homes is visible in the background, along with a man riding horseback.
Is referenced by Wainwright 395
Notes Date supplied by cataloger.
Published as illustration on page 49 in City Sights for Country Eyes ([Philadelphia]: American Sunday School Union, [1856]).
Accompanied by text titled "The staff of life" that stresses the importance of punctuality in all areas of life by using the example of the baker who "must be up betimes" to create bread, "the chief article of our food".
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 716
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8343.49
Free Library of Philadelphia: \\RBD\\ASSU\\V\\C498S\\FACSIM.\\
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Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Bakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennnsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Genre prints -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Printer American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylva nia | HSP Bd 61 K 8343.49
Accession number HSP Bd 61 K 8343.49