Influence : or, The little silk-winder
A nineteenth-century American Sunday School Union children's storybook, published in Philadelphia in 1851 for young readers. The pictures are small wood-engraved scenes of mid-century children and women in garden, street and domestic settings, drawn in fine hatched line with plain backgrounds. A designer could take from them the cross-hatched shading, simple period costume and the compact, story-driven vignette layout typical of moral tales.
