Jump to navigation
Main menu
LCP Home
Search
Search Library Catalog
Search Digital Collections
How to Search the Collections
Access Terms Used in Our Catalogs
Finding Aids
Explore
Browse Collections
LCP News
Social Media
Exhibitions
Podcast
Academic Programs
Overview
Fellowships
Innovation Award
Biennial First Book Award
Seminars
Program in African American History
Program in Early American Economy and Society
The Davida T. Deutsch Program in Women’s History
Visual Culture Program
Research
Overview
Subject Guides
Finding Aids
Online Exhibitions
Bookbinding Research
Using the Library
Overview
Hours, Access, & Location
Rights & Reproductions
How to Search Collections
Potentially Harmful Materials and Descriptions Statement
Online Resources
Events
Upcoming Events
Seminars
LCP News
LCP Press Resources
Projects
Beyond Glass Cases
Library Company Papers Project
Hearing Voices
Imperfect History
Fireside Chats
Support the Library
Overview
Donate Online!
Join & Renew Membership Online
Support: Shareholding
Lecture in Honor of John C. Van Horne
Membership Benefits
Planned Giving
Annual Dinner
Junto
About LCP
Annual Reports
Staff
Board of Trustees
Employment
Affiliations
LCP Blog
Press Resources
LCP Privacy Policy
Overview and History
LCP FAQ Sheet
The little pilferers. [graphic] : When we are sent on an errand for any thing that is good to eat or drink we may be tempted. But we must resist the temptation for in God's sight it is stealing.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A65491
Back to top
Details
Contributor
American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title
The little pilferers. [graphic] : When we are sent on an errand for any thing that is good to eat or drink we may be tempted. But we must resist the temptation for in God's sight it is stealing.
Publisher
Philadelphia : American S.S. Union, No. 146 Chesnut Street
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date
[ca. 1850]
Physical Description
1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 28.5 x 39 cm.
Description
Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing two girls standing on the sidewalk in front of the shop window of a bakery. One holds a basket of bread under her right arm, as the other girl steals a sip from a drink.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Date supplied by cataloger.
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 "Avoid the beginning of evil" moralizing that "there is no such thing as a little sin" since small lies engrain a "habit of falsehood and dishonesty" making children "a little bolder at every step."
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 136
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject
Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Girls.
Temptation.
Eating & drinking.
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 [7822.F.4]
Accession number
7822.F.4
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
Log In