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The rag tender. [graphic] / From life, Phila. A. Kollner's lithy. Phila.; A. Kollner fec.
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Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Contributor
American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title
The rag tender. [graphic] / From life, Phila. A. Kollner's 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
Children's moral instruction book showing three men with their hats dipped low, asleep in a stalled horse-drawn furniture wagon on a pier overlooking the river. The three men are customers of the rag tender, who stands near the cart warning another man to stay away. Another man, presumably down on his luck, leans on a post in the distance.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Published as illustration on page 28 in City Sights for Country Eyes ([Philadelphia]: American Sunday School Union, [1856]).
Accompanied by text titled "The rag tender" moralizing against the dangers of being "late and unsteady" at work and men who "spend their odd pence for whiskey and cigars". These men end up trading their better clothes to the "rag tender".
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 631
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8343.28
Free Library of Philadelphia: \\RBD\\ASSU\\V\\C498S\\FACSIM.\\
Subject
Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Temperance.
Clothing trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Peddlers and peddling -- 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 8343.28
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collections
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