The Kiawah Stock Account Book, 1877-1882, is kept by a member of the Vanderhorst Family for their estate Kiawah Plantation on Kiawah Island, South Carolina. Entries include information on the numbers of livestock sold, list of expenses and marketing and account statements for the overseer Quash Stevens.
Stereoscopic image of five visible horse drawn carriages, some transporting cotton from the gin. Handwritten caption on the verso reads, "Some scene 1879-Cotten ginned and booked for shipping. Gin property of Mr. JJ Dale, J.R. Macdonald, George Wilkins."
A document conveying a tract of land to George Dispau. The document describes how W.D. Porter, a representative of the court, auctioned the land to the church so the estate of previous owner, Cephas Whittmore, could settle his debt.
Stereoscopic image of African American cotton pickers in a cotton field on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Handwritten caption on verso reads, "Cotton picking at the yard-St. Helena Island Fall of 1879."
Plan of land in St. James Santee for Abraham Micheau. Names associated with this plat are Ann Colburn, Gardner, Anthony Germain, Buneli, B. Skipper, Isaac Skipper, Abraham Micheau, and William H. Simons.
A stereoscopic image of African American women holding baskets with wares on top of their heads and children carrying wares atop their head. The text at the bottom of the image identifies them as "street vendors."
Pencil sketches and occasional watercolors by Charleston-born architect William Martin Aiken. Primarily landscapes and sketches of architectural elements in Boston, Mass.; Newport, R.I.; Brookline, Mass.; White Mountains, N.Y.; Chateaugay, N.Y.; and Quebec, Canada.
Map of the Charleston peninsula. Revised in 1879; published by Walker, Evans & Cogswell. Features locations of fire alarm boxes and public buildings, with indexes to each. Presented by A.R. Thomlinson, manufacturer of harness, saddles, bridles, etc., located at 137 Meeting Street. Measures 21.875" x 13.625"
An account of sales of a house and lot on the corner of East Bay and Vernon Street in Charleston on account of the estate of the Ball family. Costs include those for advertising, commissions and the sale of bonds.
Page 206 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with one plat. The plat shows lots and structures between Charlotte Street and Calhoun Street, near where they intersect with Washington Street. The plat also shows a planing mill, a saw mill, and a dock.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jewish women from Tunis. From the article "Three continents in three weeks" by David Ker, published in the July 1879 edition of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish woman from Tétouan. After a painting by Jean-François Portaels. Published in The Aldine, Volume 9.
Hand-colored wood engraving of a Jewish woman from Morocco. Wood engraving by Richard Henkel after Wilhelm Gentz. From Blätter für Kostümkunde, published Berlin: Franz Lipperheide.
Typed copy of a narrative concerning the harassment of the Gregorie family at Myrtle Grove plantation near Mt. Pleasant, SC, 1866. Gregorie details the destruction of personal property and crops, the wounding of his daughter and his battle for compensation for the damages inflicted upon his farm and family by African American troops after the war. 1879.
Caricature by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler published in the July 16, 1879, edition of Puck. The associated article reads in part : "The trouble with this country is that religion is getting to be altogether too much mixed up with affairs political and social; and the latest phase of this newest departure in American matters is the effort to populate the great waste places of the West with 'colonies' of certain religionists... Instead of little hamlets budding into thrifty villages, and blossoming into bustling cities, with the Methodist spire rising up into the same blue Heaven with the Catholic cross, while the dome of the Synagogue flashes between them--we are to have sectarian villages made up, as the case may be, exclusively either of Jews or Catholics..."
