A report from the mayor, city council and various governmental departments of Charleston, South Carolina, for the year 1887. The Year Book opens with an address from Mayor Courtenay followed by reports from various departments and an appendix.
A program for the Re-Dedication Service at KKBE synagogue on the 46th Consecration Anniversary. The program includes an outline of the hymns and scripture for the service.
Illustration from a photo of the unveiling ceremony of the John C. Calhoun statue in Marion Square. People with umbrellas and Citadel cadets are shown along with the Old Citadel Building.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Talmudist David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo giving a sermon in the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam on July 22, 1866. After an oil painting by Jacob-Emile-Edouard Brandon. Published in the May 18, 1887, edition of L'Illustration.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the old Main Synagogue in Munich. From a photograph. Published in the October 8, 1887, edition of the Illustrirte Zeitung.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jews from Poland. From a drawing by Francis David Millet. From the article "Through the Caucasus" by Ralph Meeker, published in the April 1887 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.