This album is comprised of photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, and other documents from an expedition to French Equatorial Africa, in which Getrude Legendre participated. The expedition was sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and the National Geographic Society, and collected plant and animal specimens, photographs of wildlife and people, and recordings of native dialects and music.
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Torah ark. Text beneath reads : "The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath. To observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Torah ark. Text beneath reads : "The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath. To observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever."
Color drawing depicting a groom purchasing a shtreimel for his wedding. Drawing by Gabriella Rosenthal. From Odd corners in Jerusalem : twelve coloured drawings (Simṭaʾot bi-Yerushalayim : 12 tsiyurim tsivʻoniyim me-et Gavriʾelah Rozenṭal) by Gabriella Rosenthal.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a kiddush cup between two candles. Text below is excerpted from the Union Prayer Book : "May the Sabbath cup be to us a cup of salvation, which we lift up calling upon the name of the Lord. And as this weekly day of rest and worship enjoined by Thy law has brought blessing to many nations, may it at last unite all men in a covenant of peace and holy fellowship."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a kiddush cup between two candles. Text below is excerpted from the Union Prayer Book : "May the Sabbath cup be to us a cup of salvation, which we lift up calling upon the name of the Lord. And as this weekly day of rest and worship enjoined by Thy law has brought blessing to many nations, may it at last unite all men in a covenant of peace and holy fellowship."
![[The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath…]](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/26166/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
![[The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath…]](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/25535/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
![[May the Sabbath cup be to us a cup of salvation…]](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/25883/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
![[May the Sabbath cup be to us a cup of salvation…]](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/25882/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
![[With Thee is the fountain of life; in Thy light do we see light]](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/25575/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
![[With Thee is the fountain of life; in Thy light do we see light]](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/25574/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
![[They who take pleasure in the Sabbath shall find peace and joy]](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/25572/full/200,/0/default.jpg)