Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Contributor American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title The wharf. [graphic] / A. Kollner lith. 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 Plate from children's moral instruction book showing a drayman resting against an empty horse-drawn dray as he waits for vessels carrying goods to dock. Includes the healthy, handsome horse at the center of the scene, rows of commercial buildings and sail lofts facing the river (right), a man sitting and waiting on barrels lining the pier (left), and the bare masts of ships already docked (center).
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Published as illustration on page 33 in City Sights for Country Eyes ([Philadelphia]: American Sunday School Union, [1856]).
Accompanied by text titled "The wharf" describing the activities on piers and wharves when ships come in with goods. Also moralizes that the wharf "is no place for idlers" and warns of the dangers and bad habits learned there.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 834
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8343.33
Free Library of Philadelphia: \\RBD\\ASSU\\V\\C498S\\FACSIM.\\
Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Piers & wharves -- 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 Pennsylvania | HSP Bd 61 K 8343.33