This album consists of photographs taken at Pinehurst Tea Plantation located in Summerville, SC and owned by Professor Charles Upham Shepard Senior. The photographs depict the property, multiple tea gardens, tea processing, schools and other buildings located on the property, and tea plantation workers (including the African-American students who attended Pinehurst School).
This album consists of photographs on the subject of tea cultivation and life in Japan. The photographs in this album are hand-tinted color, albumen prints mounted on paper. All captions are from the album.
Anti-war comic entitled, "Vietnam," providing arguments against the Vietnam War with an emphasis on the injustices with regard to African American enlisted soldiers.
This is a photo album documenting a trip taken by a few members of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina on September 13-14, 1950 to North Carolina to consider whether coastal South Carolina could capitalize on the grape and wine industry as NC had so successfully done. The group visits an experiment station, inspects different vineyards, observes a harvest, and learns about varieties of muscadine grapes.
This photograph album documents a trip taken by members of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina from February 13, 1950 to February 18, 1950. The group visits ranches, reservations and an experiment station to observe Florida's growing beef-cattle industry.
This collection consists of select photographs from the 'Charleston County Pasture Tour, 1951' photograph album. The photographs depict walks through pastures, cattle, demonstrations, group photos and a shared meal.
Based on the inscription and date, it is likely that this sketchbook was the joint work of two brothers, Alexander Fraser (1750-1798) and Charles Fraser (1782-1860). Highlights of this sketchbook include some of Charles Fraser's earliest Lowcountry landscape scenes, and several theatrical views, some of which may be the work of his brother, Alexander.
Photograph album of Laura M. Bragg, 1881-1978. Bragg was the founder and first librarian of the Charleston Free Library in 1931 and was the director of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts from 1932-1939. Includes Citadel and Virginia Military Institute commencement invitations, postcards and photographs of Miss Bragg with Chinese cadets.
Scrapbook pages made of pink construction paper with a decorative vine theme, leaves made of green construction paper. Media types include photographs, newspaper clippings, typescript pages, correspondence, and invitations. All dated material generated in the 1970s.
This memorial photograph album documents the funeral of Moshe Yidel Gelbart. Gelbart died of appendicitis on February 25, 1935, in Mogielnica, Poland. The album, made of fabric and paper, contains black and white photographs that chronicle Gelbart's funeral procession, his casket, mourners, and gravesite, including an image of Gelbart with his wife and son eight days before his death. The cover of this book pictures a broken candle and a broken tree, symbolic of a life cut short. Each page includes decorative labels in Hebrew. This album was given to one of his two brothers, George Goldberg or Israel Geldbart, in South Carolina.
This 1941 false identification was used by Anna Philine Nathans-Paerl, mother of Vera Nathans. Anna used this identification during the war until it was discovered that she was Jewish and then she was sent to Bergen-Belsen.
"Mementoes of Days in Service" details Lawrence Layden's service in World War II from his induction in June 1941, six months before Pearl Harbor, until his formal discharge in December, 1945. Part of the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, Layden's squadron provided aerial reconnaissance for Operation Overlord and the assault on Nazi Germany. Through photos and text, Layden's scrapbook follows him from his initial assignment in Louisville, Kentucky to bases in England and continental Europe. The album contains reconnaissance photos used in the assault on Europe, photographs of Layden at various bases throughout the war and several photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp, visited by Layden six days after its liberation.
See Samuel Lord Hyde Photographs,This pamphlet, consisting entirely of illustrations, depicts the buildings, exhibits and statuary of the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition. In addition to the Exposition snapshots, several images of contemporary Charleston are also included. The publisher is unknown. 1902. 43p.
An album of carte de visites from the 1860s. Photos picture relatives of the Hyams, Cohen, and Pearlstine families along with several unidentified portraits.
This scrapbook is comprised of newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and other documents related to the Walterboro Chapter of Future Farmers of America.
A booklet published by the Southern Railway System advertising winter vacations in Summerville, S.C., Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga, including illustrations and descriptions of resorts and tourist sights. The pamphlet also contains maps and schedules for the Southern Railway System.
1909 booklet advertising the Pine Forest Inn, a Summerville, S.C. resort which opened in 1891. The description emphasizes the Inn's luxury accomodations, and the beneficial climate and health benefits of wintering in Summerville
1893 booklet advertising the Pine Forest Inn, a Summerville, S.C. resort which opened in 1891. Includes several images of the Inn and its grounds, and describes the Inn's accomodations and the health benefits of Summerville
Black-and-white steel engraving of the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem restored. Engraving after a drawing by Louis François Cassas. From Palestine : description géographique, historique, et archéologique by Salomon Munk, published Paris: Firmin Didot frères.
Black-and-white steel engraving of the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. Engraving after a drawing by Louis François Cassas. From Palestine : description géographique, historique, et archéologique by Salomon Munk, published Paris: Firmin Didot frères.
Black-and-white engraving of the Tombs of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. After a drawing by Luigi Mayer. From A series of twenty-four views illustrative of the Holy Scriptures, published London: R. Bowyer & M. Parkes.
Color lithograph of the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. After a lithograph by Louis Haghe from a drawing by David Roberts. From The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, Volume 1, published London: Lithographed, printed and published by Day & Son.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. Published in the July 29, 1854, edition of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
Black-and-white steel engraving of the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. From The city of the Great King; or, Jerusalem as it was, as it is, and as it is to be by James Turner Barclay, published Philadelphia: Challen.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting Yom Kippur at the Park East Synagogue in New York. Original illustration by Irving R. Wiles. From the article "The Jews in New York" by Richard Wheatley, published in the January 1892 edition of The Century Magazine.
Black-and-white photogravure of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Photogravure by Goupil & Cie after a painting by Jean Léon Gérôme. From Gérôme, a collection of the works of J. L. Gérôme in one hundred photogravures, Volume 2, edited by Edward Strahan, published New York: Samuel L. Hall.
Black-and-white engraving depicting lighting the Sabbath lamp. From Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, geographique et litteral de la Bible, Volume 3, by Augustin Calmet, published Paris: Emery, Saugrain, & Pierre Martin.
Black-and-white steel engraved portrait of historian Josephus (born Joseph ben Matityahu). Engraving by Robert Lunn. Frontispiece to The works of Flavius Josephus, the learned and authentic Jewish historian, and celebrated warrior… translated by William Whiston, published Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press for Thomas Nelson and Peter Brown.
Black-and-white steel engraved portrait of historian Josephus (born Joseph ben Matityahu). From Curiosities of Great Britain : England & Wales delineated, historical, entertaining & commercial, Volume 11, by Thomas Dugdale, published London: L. Tallis.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of historian Josephus (born Joseph ben Matityahu). Frontispiece to The complete works of the learned and authentic Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus : comprising comprising the Antiquities of the Jews, a History of the Jewish wars, three dissertations concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, &c. &c. and the life of Josephus, written by himself translated by William Whiston, published London & Glasgow: J. F. Tallis.
Map of the city of New York as it was in the years 1742-1744, including the first Mill Street Synagogue of Congregation Shearith Israel. Lithograph by George Hayward after an original drawing by David Grim. Published in D. T. Valentine's Manual of the corporation of the city of New York for 1854.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of historian Josephus (born Joseph ben Matityahu). Engraving by J. Rogers. Frontispiece to The works of Flavius Josephus, the learned and authentic Jewish historian and celebrated warrior… translated by William Whiston, published London: Henry Fisher, Son, and Co.