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Summer luxuries. [graphic] / From life, Phila. A. Kollner, lith. Phila.; Kollner fec.
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Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Contributor
American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title
Summer luxuries. [graphic] / From life, Phila. A. Kollner, lith. Phila.; Kollner fec.
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
Book illustration showing a female housekeeper pointing and directing an ice carter who stands at the back of a horse-drawn ice cart with a block of ice in his hand. A row of houses are visible in the background.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 354
Notes
Date supplied by cataloger.
Published as illustration on page 20 in City Sights for Country Eyes ([Philadelphia]: American Sunday School Union, [1856]).
Accompanied by text titled "Summer luxuries" describing how water is delivered to cities, how ice is necessary to cool it, and how ice is distributed. Demonstrates the importance of being prompt: "So we see that in this as in everything else, to accomplish much we must be in season".
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 728
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8343.20
Free Library of Philadelphia: \\RBD\\ASSU\\V\\C498S\\FACSIM.\\
Subject
Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Ice industry -- 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 8343.20
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