A report from the mayor, city council, and various governmental departments of Charleston, South Carolina for the year 1880. The yearbook opens with an address from Mayor Courtenay followed by reports from various departments and an appendix recounting the history of Charleston.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting a Jewish man holding a mezuzah. Published in the April 1880 edition of Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine.
Black-and-white engraving depicting Moses and the Ten Commandments. From The Holy Bible : with the commentaries of Scott and Henry; and containing also many thousand critical and explanatory notes, selected from the great standard authors of Europe and America; the commentaries condensed, and the whole edited, by John Eadie, published Manchester: F. Warren & Co.
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting Jewish musicians in Tlemcen. Engraving by Henri Théophile Hildibrand. From The Mediterranean illustrated by William Henry Davenport Adams, published London: T. Nelson and Sons.
Color lithograph of a Jewish high priest in the Tabernacle, dressed in holy vestments and surrounded by the furnishings and implements of the Tabernacle. Copyright by J.R. Jones (1880).
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the Tomb of Absalom, Tomb of Benei Hezir, and Tomb of Zechariah in the Valley of Jehoshaphat (Kidron Valley) in Jerusalem. Published in the June 1880 edition of Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Polish Jews in Russia. The associated article reads : "A sketch by our artist in Russia, or rather on the borders of Russian Poland, shows a two-horse cart of rustic apperance, closely packed with eager merchants of country wares and commodities for the use of the peasantry, one and all belonging to the Hebrew race, who carry on most of the inland trade in those parts of the Czar's dominions. They are travelling to the next market-town, where they will buy and sell to a considerable profit, as the Jews never fail to do in Russia, if in any country in the world." Published in the March 27, 1880, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna. From Die alten Strassen und Plätze von Wien's Vorstädten und ihre historisch interessanten Häuser, Volume 1, by Wilhelm Kisch.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the Great Synagogue of Brussels. Published in the August 14, 1880, edition of L'Illustration Européenne.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting Moses and the Ten Commandments. Published in the June 1880 edition of Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine.
