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Industry & sloth. [graphic] : What a sight! The sluggard stretched out in his bed with the bright light shining upon him and his mother and sister at work as busy as bees. Let him lose his breakfast two or three times and he will learn better ways.
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Contributor
American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title
Industry & sloth. [graphic] : What a sight! The sluggard stretched out in his bed with the bright light shining upon him and his mother and sister at work as busy as bees. Let him lose his breakfast two or three times and he will learn better ways.
Publisher
Philadelphia : American Sunday S. Union 116 [sic] Chestnut St
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 a mother scolding her young boy, and making him stay in bed past breakfast for his laziness. The boy's belongings are scattered on the floor near his bed. Also in the room is a young girl who sweeps the floor near the fireplace.
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 "The sluggard!" moralizing against keeping late hours for "vain or sinful amusement, the hours that ought to be given to sleep" since healthy children need to use their "rested minds and bodies in useful ways".
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 118
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject
Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Laziness.
Boys.
Mothers.
Girls.
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.5]
Accession number
7822.F.5
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
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