Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Title The butcher. [graphic] / From life at Philada. A. Kollner's lithy. Phila.; A. Kollner fect.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by the American Sunday School Union, Chestnut St
Date [1856]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone ; 23 x 29 cm. (9 x 11.5 in.)
Description Children's moral instruction book showing a butcher driving a horse-drawn cart loaded with quarters of meat away from a market shed in the background. A dog runs ahead of the horse in the foreground. Homes and a church spire are visible in the tree-lined distance.
Is referenced by Wainwright 368
Notes Date supplied by cataloger.
Published as illustration on page 44 in City Sights for Country Eyes ([Philadelphia]: American Sunday School Union, [1856]).
Accompanied by text titled "The butcher" describing food production and the role of the butcher, who brings the meat from the slaughterhouses to the city markets. Praises food production as the work of God: "Think what millions of creatures upon the earth, as well as in the air and in the deep sea, receive their daily food from His hands!"
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 71
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8343.44
Free Library of Philadelphia: \\RBD\\ASSU\\V\\C498S\\FACSIM.\\
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Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Butchers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennnsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Genre prints -- 1850-1860. -- gmgpc
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Printer American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bd 61 K 8343.44
Accession number HSP Bd 61 K 8343.44