Coming Home


Permanent ID:
14637
Call number:
Bd 61 K 8341.15
Date:
1855
Image Description:
Plate from children’s moral instruction book showing a man, woman, and their three children holding baskets and belongings as they follow an African American porter who carries a trunk for them. Visible in the background is the large steamer the family disembarked at the wharf, probably at the Delaware River.

Accompanied by text titled "Coming home" moralizes that those who commit themselves to God will be kept from evil and "will arrive at last at a home of perfect joy and peace," since "Heaven is represented as the Christian’s home".
Dimensions:
Width: 26 cm, Height: 22 cm
Collection:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania bound graphics collection
Related Person or Organization:
American Sunday School Union (publisher)