Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Title To the depot. [graphic] / A. Kollner, lith. Phila. ; A. Kollner.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by the American Sunday School Union, Chestnut St
Date [1856]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone ; 29 x 23 cm. (11.5 x 9 in.)
Description Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a drayman sitting on top of bundles of goods, driving a horse-drawn dray away from the river toward a building, probably a custom house. Includes a partial view of a vessel docked at the wharf, the front facades of buildings facing the water, and a church spire in the distance. The number "56" has been drawn onto one of the bundles on the dray.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Published in City Sights for Country Eyes ([Philadelphia]: American Sunday School Union, [1856]).
Accompanied by text titled "To the depot" moralizing that everyone must work together to make business for others, and that each contribution is equally important. Uses the example of farmers, mechanics, manufacturers and merchants who work together to distribute goods.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 757
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8343.4
Free Library of Philadelphia: \\RBD\\ASSU\\V\\C498S\\FACSIM.\\
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Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Carts & wagons -- Pennnsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Printer American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bd 61 K 8343.4
Accession number HSP Bd 61 K 8343.4