Photograph of Benito Mussolini bearing witness to the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone of the city's film industry in Rome, Italy. Captioned: Rome “The laying of the foundation stone of the city's film industry.”
A hand colored engraving of an African American woman and children working in a road side stand. On the verso is a river scene of a ferry carrying a horse and carriage going down the Ashley River.
A newspaper article on the 1886 earthquake in Charleston. Several buildings are shown damaged, including St. Michael's Church, St. Philip's Church steeple, and Hibernian Hall. A street scene during the earthquake shows African Americans praying in the streets with several buildings on fire in the background.
Second color sketch showing the bombardment of Charleston from Fort Moultrie. Soldiers are shown firing cannons and waving the "Stars and Bars," the official flag of the Confederacy, as a man lays under a pole. In the background, there is Fort Sumter and several warships.
A newspaper sketch of a Mississippi tow boat on a river. There is a steamboat behind the tow boat. On the banks of the river is a man on a covered wooden boat.