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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