The Stoney Family Plantation Day Book, 1872 is a bound book kept by a member of the Stoney family recording payrolls, cash accounts and general accounts for laborers, formerly slaves and now freed persons, at Medway Plantation. The second half of the book is comprised of journal entries recording weather, work completed by laborers, conditions of the plantation crops, specifically rice, and visits from family and friends.
Black-and-white lithographed portrait of Aaron the high priest. With Hebrew text excerpted from Exodus 28:4 : "And they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto Me in the priest's office." Entered according to the act of Congress in the year 1872 by Hyam Sakolski, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem. From Jerusalem : nach eigener Anschauung und den neuesten Forschungen geschildert by Philipp Wolff, published Leipzig: J.J. Weber.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting the ceremony of kapparot. From The home and synagogue of the modern Jew : sketches of modern Jewish life and ceremonies, published London: Religious Tract Society.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of Central Synagogue in New York. From a photograph by George Gardner Rockwood. Published in the July 6, 1872, edition of Harper's Weekly.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the former location of Temple Emanu-El at 5th Avenue and 43rd Street in New York. From New York and its institutions, 1609-1871, by John Francis Richmond.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the preparation of a body for burial. From The home and synagogue of the modern Jew : sketches of modern Jewish life and ceremonies, published London: Religious Tract Society.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Torah scroll with Torah mantle. From The home and synagogue of the modern Jew : sketches of modern Jewish life and ceremonies, published London: Religious Tract Society.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting Yom Kippur in a synagogue in Paris. After a drawing by Auguste André Lançon. Published in the October 26, 172, edition of Le Monde illustré. Associated article published in the November2, 1872, edition of Le Monde illustré.
