Still images found among the belongings of Henry T. Zacharias, a Charleston builder and contractor in the late 19th- and early-20th century. Zacharias built and/or repaired many notable buildings in Charleston. Includes photographs and one engraving of buildings on which he worked (or likely worked); photographs of battleships in dry dock at the Charleston Navy Yard; and a photograph of his gravesite at Magnolia Cemetery. (Note: Two of Mr. Zacharias's ledger books are in Special Collections at College of Charleston, 'Henry T. Zacharias Ledgers, 1905-1910.')
Directory of local businesses of all sorts. Published by Cooke, Howard & Co. (Baltimore, Md.), ca. 1889. Advertisements interspersed throughout, many of which are illustrated. Business types include bakers and confectioners, barbers, blacksmiths, building materials, butchers, contractors and builders, cigars and tobacco, groceries, furniture, hotels, insurance, house furnishings, painters, plumbers, railroad companies, restaurants, sailmakers, tailors, tin roofing, undertakers, wines and liquors, wheelwrights, and others. Also includes listings for municipal and state government, with names of offices and officers; listings of cemeteries, parks, halls, public buildings, and other points of interest; and a street directory that includes boundaries. In addition to an alphabetical index, the business guide is arranged by type. Missing map. 130 p., ill., 18 cm. (Note: Page numbering starts at 4 on the title page verso, after six unnumbered preliminary pages.)
Black-and-white photograph of 85 Hasell Street (Mary Hawkins [dress shop]), street (front) elevation. To its left is an arched entry connecting 83 Hasell to 85, with the sign "Lion's Head." Building was demolished for the Hasell Street entry to Charleston Place and its parking garage.
Decorative ironwork door, the side entry to 238-242 King Street. Ironwork features circular Washington Light Infantry emblem "Valor and Virtue - Washington - W.L.I. 1807," with six small iron panels with the years 1812, 1836, 1847, 1861, 1917, and [1941?].
Black-and-white photograph of the Heart of Charleston Motor Hotel at 200 Meeting Street, between Hayne Street and Pinckney Street. Corner view of building (northeast elevation) and view of the southeast corner of Meeting and Pinckney. (Previously the site of The Charleston Hotel (1838-1960) and currently the site of the Bank of America Building.)
Businesses located at the northeast corner of East Bay Street and Vernon Street: Milbren's Laundry and Dry Cleaning (334 East Bay Street) and Fort Sumter Paper Co. (336 East Bay Street), since demolished.
