BROADWAY in 1854! street view & article, childrens paper; American Tract Society

Description: Broadway The Childs Paper November, 1854 This is an 1854 issue of a monthly publication for children, published before the Civil War. It is 170 years old! The Childs Paper was a Christian paper offering religious and moral instruction to children and juveniles, and was apparently used by some Sunday school teachers. Its masthead shows a scene of Jesus with two small children in his lap, and saying to a group surrounding him, Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me. The paper measures 10x14 inches in size, and is four pages long. It came from a bound volume and has some typical disbinding marks at the spine. It has a few browning spots along the spine edge from aging, plus a light dampstain along its right edge; yet it is still in very good overall condition, attractive and easily readable. The front page of the paper features a nice woodcut illustration showing a horse-drawn streetcar passing a park along Broadway in New York City. This is over a text titled A STREET OF NEW YORK, which takes up much of the rest of the page. The article gives a brief description of the famous artery through Manhattan, and has two paragraphs about the American Tract Society, whose headquarters were on Broadway. The text says, in part: New York! People are always going to New York, or coming from New York, and sending or receiving from New York. . . . New York is one of the great cities of our Union; the centre of trade, of wealth, of work, of people, of papers and of books, of good and of evil. . . . The most famous thoroughfare of the city is Broadway, which indeed is one of the grandest streets in the world. It is eighty feet wide, and for three miles, is lined with the finest hotels, houses, churches, and stores filled with every thing to attract the eye and benefit the purse. Broadway begins at the Battery, which is a large public ground of eleven acres, laid out with grass-plots, gravelled walks, and wide-spreading trees, and is about to be much enlarged. . . . Step over a bridge from the Battery and you enter Castle Garden, where Jenny Lind sang to 10,000 people. In old times it was a fortification built out in the sea, but it has long since laid aside its warlike character, and is now used for shows, concerts, and public meetings of any kind. The Park is another green spot, refreshing the eye in this great city. . . . The picture discloses an edge of the Park. See the old womans stall, where she sits from morning till night, picking up the pennies for the support of her little grandchildren. . . . There is a little boy: what is he trying to sell from his basket? matches or hot corn, it may be, to help a sick mother or dying father. . . . that huge building rearing its square front above the tree-tops? . . . That is the Tract House, the great manufactory of The Childs Paper . . . and that host of good books which is scattering divine truth all over the land . . . There is a great deal of vice, of sin, of misery in New York, but it has a great many noble Christian institutions, whose aim is to redeem from sin and provide us with helps and aids in the path of well-doing. . . Etc. ******************* On the back page is a touching temperance poem called The Childs Plea, with a drawing of a drunkard wrecking his home. The first verse says, Dear father, drink no more, I pray, It makes you look so sad; Come home and drink no more, I say, T will make dear mother glad. _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))

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Location: Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

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