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A cup of cold water – Historic Print

A cup of cold water, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
A cup of cold water, [no date recorded on shelflist card]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 title alludes to Matthew 10:42, where a cup of cold water given to one of "these little ones" is promised a reward. Pictures built on that verse were popular in Sunday school materials and devotional prints, and the phrase also suited temperance and charity themes. The record credits American Lithographic Co., a commercial firm that produced large runs of color prints, but it gives no date, so the image's exact period and original use remain uncertain. Its subject and commercial origin still place it within a broader tradition of mass-circulated American moral imagery.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: American Lithographic Co.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,061 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131439

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