Details
Contributor American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title Be kind to the needy. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: American S.S. Union, 146 Chestnut St]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored ; 31 x 24 cm.(12.25 x 9.25 in.)
Description Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a young girl leading a blind woman across a foot bridge over a creek. The woman wears a bonnet and shawl and carries a basket. In the background, a building resembling a mill is visible and ducks wade in the water.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853).
Originally accompanied by text titled "Leading the blind" moralizing that choosing kindness and self-sacrifice for the sake of helping others is imitating Jesus Christ, who "was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we, through poverty, might be rich. We imitate him when we deny ourselves, that we may do good to others."
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 13
Gift of David Doret.
Trimmed.
Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Girls.
Blind women.
Benevolence.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Genre prints -- 1840-1850.
Printer American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| GC - Morality [P.2007.28.18]
Accession number P.2007.28.18