Page 219 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with one plat. The plat features proposed streets on "Part of the West Point Mill Property," including an extension of Calhoun Street. The plat also shows a dam, a storehouse, and a creek.
Page 217 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with one plat. The plat features city lands known as Potters Field. It also shows streams, marshland, President Street, Mount Street, Fishburne Street, Line Street, and Congress Street.
A report from the mayor, city council and various governmental departments of Charleston, South Carolina, for the year 1894. The Year Book opens with an address from Mayor Ficken followed by reports from various departments.
Black-and-white etching depicting a Jewish jeweler in Tangier. Etching by Adolphe-Alphonse Géry-Bichard after a painting by Alfred Dehodencq. Printed Paris: Imp. A. Salmon & Ardail. Published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the first Cabinet of the Confederate States, including Judah P. Benjamin serving as Attorney General. From Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War.
A tinted photograph of St. Philip's Church from the street with an accompanying article. In the photograph, both the Dock Street Theatre (left) and the Huguenot Church (right) can be seen.
The Storm Swept Coast of South Carolina describes damage and recovery efforts in Beaufort, South Carolina, and the surrounding coastal area after the hurricane of August 27, 1893. Accounts from hurricane survivors describe the destruction of homes, crops, boats, wharves, bridges, railroads, and other infrastructure in the area. The author, Mrs. R. C. Mather, recounts the recovery efforts she and others undertook throughout the following year. Mather, who created The Mather School in 1867 to educate the daughters of liberated slaves, continued her work after the hurricane by providing clothing, blankets, tools, seeds, and other provisions to the needy. Interspersed throughout the 14 chapters of the book are poems and biblical passages, reflecting the author's deep religious faith.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jews from Russia at a peasant market. Illustration by Frederic Remington. From the article "The Russian and his Jew" by Poultney Bigelow, published in the March 1894 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.