Details
Contributor American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title The dishonest boy [graphic] : To take and keep what we know belongs to another without their consent is to steal. The lady dropped her handkerchief and an honest boy would have picked it up, not to keep it, but to return it to the owner.
Publisher Philadelphia : American S.S. Union, 146 Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, hand colored ; 39 x 28.5 cm.
Description Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a young boy standing on a street corner near the storefront of a tailor. He hides a hankerchief behind his back. Behind the boy, the woman who dropped the hankerchief searches the ground for the item with help from a young girl. Two girls stand opposite the young thief and point their fingers in an accusatory manner.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Imprint unsigned.
Date assigned by cataloger.
Issued as plate in 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 "Honest boys make honest men" moralizing that obedience is learned at a young age, and that "wicked men" begin their lying and thievery in boyhood, "led astray by falling into the company of young thieves".
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 57
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Unsigned.
Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Arts in Christian education.
Honesty.
Boys.
Girls.
Women.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Printer American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Morality [7822.F.6]
Accession number 7822.F.6