The industrious man
Title
The industrious man It is Saturday night. The industrious man returns home from his labour in peace-He is welcome to an humble home-Pleasant smiles and happy voices greet him. Let him fear and serve God will bless him and his household for ever
Description
Shows a man returning to his quaint home and family convened around the dining table after a day of work. He enters the door with a lunch pail in his hand and greets his son who runs to him. In front of the table, laid out with a pot of tea, an older daughter uses a plate of water to bathe her younger sister who has been stripped to her waist. At the end of the table, the mother holds a baby at her bosom. Nearby, the family cat sits in front of the stove slightly visible in the right of the image., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00026, 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)., Manuscript note on verso: James L. & Isaac W. Morris from Aunt Sarah [Pitrom’s?] Christmas 1849, Accompanied by text titled "Welcome Home" moralizing that a happy home stems from a strong work ethic by the "honest laborer" who is one of the "noblest of men.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 117, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
Creator
Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist
Date
[ca. 1849]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
Solar Tip Shoes
Title
Solar Tip Shoes Made only by John Mundell & Co. Philada. None genuine without our trade mark. Look out for the trademark. The “Solar Tips Social Club.” We buy none but solar tip
Description
Advertisement containing a scene showing a children’s cotillion of the Solar Tips Social Club. The boy and girl club members dance as couples in their fancy attire, well-dressed hair, and "Solar Tips Social Club" sashes. To the right, children wearing tattered and non-solar tipped shoes gather forlornly to the side by a pole marked “We Must Buy Solar Tip Shoes and Join the Happy Party." A boy sits, legs outstretched, on the floor, as girls cry, comfort one another, and stare at their feet. The firm's trademark is incorporated into the scene and reads "The Best Sole Leather Tip Made. Patd. February 19, 1878. J.M. & Co. Trade Mark. Reg.", Not in Wainwright., pdcp00048, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 219, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards. One of three Mundell advertisements. Only one with imprint.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Thomas M. Harris & Co.
Title
Thomas M. Harris & Co Buy the standard tip
Description
Advertisement showing children at play in a park setting. In the foreground, two boys, one in a sailor’s outfit, pulls a swing attached to a tree, on which a boy sits and a girl stands. The tree is adorned with a sign that reads “Best Childs Shoe Made.” At the boys' feet, a "Standard Tips" shoebox, with an eye-catching illustrated label lies on the ground. One of a pair of Standard Tips rests on the box, with the other lying next to it with the sole bearing a Harris trademark. In background, two boys play stick ball. All the children are well-dressed and wear 'Standard Tips" shoes. Also contains the Thomas M. Harris & Co. trademark marked with the dates and Aug. 1882 & July 1884 the motto "Our Sole Leather Tip the Best in the World.", pdcp00045, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 251, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Solar Tip Shoes
Title
Solar Tip Shoes Made only by John Mundell & Co. Philadelphia
Description
Advertisement showing a winter scene with children playing on a swath of ice on a hillside near a refreshment stand. Several boys lie, fallen onto one another, on the ice as two other boys slide in from behind. A row of children, including two girls watch them from the side. A dog stands in a playful stance in front of the pileup. Also contains a decorative, partial border with pictorial details of pairs of Solar Tip Shoes with the Mundell trademark visible on the sole of one. The trademark of John Mundell & Co. "Pat. Feb. 19th 1878" illustrated in lower left of image. Contains the motto "The Best Sole Leather Tip Made.", pdcp00042, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 218, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
The rogue caught
Title
The rogue caught These boys often told, not to throw stones, but they would not mind and now one of them has broken the grocers window, and he or his poor father must pay for it
Description
Depicts a grocery clerk, in his apron, angrily grabbing a boy outside of his “Temperance Grocery” store that contains a broken window. One of the boy's mischievious friends holds his knee in pain as the other flees from him and the clerk. Two girls depart from the store entrance behind the hurt boy. Rows of merchandise line the window of the store., Date inferred from complementary print with dated manuscript note., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00025, Issued 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)., Accompanied by text titled "A Common Snare" moralizing about the tempation to do wrong is one of the "snares of the Wicked One" that will lead one to ruin. "Fear God and you need fear nothing else.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 196, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
Creator
Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist
Date
[ca. 1849]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
[Sunday in the Country]
Title
[Sunday in the Country]
Description
Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing two young women attired in bonnets and day dresses as they sit sidesaddle and race their horses down a dirt road in the country side on the way to Sunday-school. Accompanying text explicates: These ladies have been accustomed to the saddle from their childhood, and ride the fleetest horses without fear. They have a fine wholseome air this morning, and we hope their conversation by the way, is such as will best fit them for worship of God., Not in Wainwright., pdcj00002, Accompanying text explicates: These ladies have been accustomed to the saddle from their childhood, and ride the fleetest horses without fear. They have a fine wholseome air this morning, and we hope their conversation by the way, is such as will best fit them for worship of God., Published in Common sights in town and country (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, between 1847 and 1857)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 246, Free Library of Philadelphia: Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 57
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 57
Standard tip shoes. T.M. Harris & Co.
Title
Standard tip shoes. T.M. Harris & Co
Description
Advertisement showing a parade float, surrounded by sharply-dressed children, processing down the block with the "T.M. Harris & Co". multi-storied building at 821 Cherry. The float carries a large-model size Standard Tip shoe on which a toddler is seated and holding a Harris shoe. The children accompanying the vehicle play musical instruments, hold banners, and carry ribbons marked "Stand Tip." Two older girls flank and clasp one hand of the other over the float as three woman, including one attired as a nurse who holds a banner, follow the procession. The banners are illustrated with the company trademarks that advertise "Warranted Double Toe" and "Highest Grade." Spectators cheer from the windows of the company building that contains a cupola adorned with a weather vane. The building was previously occupied by the lighting factory of Cornelius & Baker., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00050, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 238, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards