Wissahickon polka. /
Title
Wissahickon polka
Description
Composed by Frank Drayton., Printer: Lithograph by T. Sinclair, Philada., Prices printed on recto: Solo 2 1/2; Duett 2., Cover illustration is a lithograph, tinted with one stone showing a domestic scene with a cottage residence in Fairmount Park, set back from the bank of the creek. The father pulls a small fishing boat up to shore as his son runs to greet him. The boy leaves behind his mother who sits with his infant sibling in her lap under a tree., Polka., Dedication: To Miss Mary French., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 851, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1990, p. 47., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with edits.
Creator
Drayton, Frank, composer
Date
c1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Sheet Music Wissahickon P.9303.4
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
"Look upon this picture and on this." Shakespeare.
Title
"Look upon this picture and on this." Shakespeare Intemperance and temperance
Description
Allegorical genre scene showing an intemperate and temperate family in front of a tree on the banks of the Schuylkill River. In the left of the image, a man dressed in ragged clothing leads his somberly-dressed wife and barefoot sleepy child from a dilapidated tavern down a weed strewn path. At the tavern, men drink, cajole and are passed out on the porch underneath the tavern sign adorned with the image of a pig. Pigs laze and eat from a trough beside the drinking establishment. In the right of the image, a well-dressed couple watches their child pick flowers into a basket as others picnic on the grass in the background. In the distance, the Fairmount Waterworks is visible. Also shows the half of the tree on the intemperate side dead and leafless while the other half on the temperate side is full of foliage., Not in Wainwright., Name of printer partially crossed out and deduced by cataloger., Manuscript note pasted on verso: The original sketch of this picture was made by Thomas Birch, about the year 1826. His daughter Mrs. Veacock, now (Aug. 1891) living at the age of 83 years remembers seeing her father working at the drawing. This copy was found in her garret where it had been for many years., Label pasted on verso: Presented to the Historical Society of Pa. by A. R. Thomas, M.D., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 443, Revised August 2018 based on copy at American Antiquarian Society, Lithf Chil Birc Look. Originally recorded Childs & Lehman as printer with ca. 1834 as the publication date., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 B 617, Inscribed in verso: Taken off the wall, 1940.
Creator
Rider, Alexander, artist
Date
[ca. 1832]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 61 B 617