The way of good & evil / Drawn & published by John Hailer, Northempton (sic) Co., Penna. – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The way of good & evil / Drawn & published by John Hailer, Northempton (sic) Co., Penna. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The way of good & evil / Drawn & published by John Hailer, Northempton (sic) Co., Penna.
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The title sets two roads, good and evil, against each other, a moral choice that echoes the familiar scriptural image of a broad way and a narrow one. Preachers and Sunday school teachers drew on that picture constantly in the nineteenth century. John Hailer drew and published this color lithograph in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, around 1862, in the middle of the Civil War, when devotional and moral images were widely sold for homes and classrooms. Its regional origin makes it a useful contrast to the larger New York firms that dominated the American print trade.
| Created / published | c1862. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Good & evil--United States--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,169 × 1,446 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216763 |
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