Plate from children's moral instruction book showing five laborers wearing porkpie hats listening to one man tell a story. They rest on or near a dray harnessed to a horse near the wharf and river., Published in Common sights in town & country. Delineated & described for young children (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, [ca. 1853])., Accompanied by text titled "Idle talk" moralizing that idle talk is a sinful waste of time and profit, and ruins the good name of others., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 367, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8342.25, Free Library of Philadelphia:, Atwater Kent Museum: 46.57.1.3
Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date
[ca. 1853]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8342.25
