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Contributor American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title The cruel boys robbing the bird of her little ones. [graphic] : Harken! my boys. Would a mother like to have a cruel robber come and take her little ones out of the cradle, or the crib while she has gone out to get bread for them? Answer this question before you touch these helpless birds.
Publisher Philadelphia : American S.S. Union, 146 Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 39.5 x 27.5 cm.
Description Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing two boys climbing a large tree to rob a bird's nest of young birds or eggs.
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 young robbers" moralizing that it is wrong to take advantage of and compromise God's weaker, helpless creatures.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 46
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Boys.
Trees.
Nests.
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.3]
Accession number 7822.F.3