Page 1 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with four plats. Plat 1 shows the intersection of East Bay Street and Market Street, and labels reading "New Custom Ho.," "Old Flash," "Scale House," and "Market." Plat 2 shows a stretch of East Bay Street from the intersection with Guignard Street to Pritchard Street, including the bridge crossing over Canal Street. Plat 3 shows the intersection of Tradd Street and Greenhill Street. Plat 4 features Beaufain Street's intersections with St. Phillip Street and Archdale Street, and features a plot of land labelled "Normal School Yard."
Page 134 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with eleven plats. Plat 1 shows lots and structures located on Lynch Street. Plat 2 shows a lot located on Wentworth Street, with a building labelled "Charleston Engine House." Plat 3 shows lots located near the intersection of Calhoun Street and Ogier Street. Plat 4 shows lots located on Ogier Street. Plat 5 shows lots located on Ogier Street, near its intersection with Calhoun Street. Plat 6 shows lots located along Clifford Alley, near where it intersects with Archdale Street. Plat 7 shows lots located near the intersection of Calhoun Street and Ogier Street. Plat 8 shows lots located near the intersection of Vanderhorst Street and Ogier Street. Plat 9 shows lots located near the intersection of Calhoun Street and Ogier Street. Plat 10 shows lots located on and near Boundary Street, near where it intersects with St. Philips Street. Plat 11 features a lot owned by "The Unitarian Church," located on the intersection of Archdale Street and Clifford Alley.
Page 15 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with three plats. Plat 1 features plots located between Rutledge Street and Smith Street, near the intersections with Queen Street. Plat 2 features a lot on the corner of Tradd Street and Savage Street. Plat 3 shows the intersection of Calhoun Street and Rutledge Avenue (also labelled as Rutledge Street) with proposed changes.
Page 158 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with four plats. Plat 1 shows lots located on South Street, near where it intersects with Hanover Street. Plat 2 shows lots located on and near Mill Street, near its intersections with Lucas Street and President Street, and shows a building labelled "Dead House" and a creek labeled as "leading to canal." Plat 3 shows lots and structures located on East Bay Street. Plat 4 shows South Bay Street and its intersections with Legare Street and King Street.
Page 221 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with six plats. Plat 1 shows lots along Payne Street, between Mount Street and Fishburne Street. Plat 2 shows lots along Lucas Street, near its intersections with Doughty Street and Mill Street, including a lot labelled "City Hospital." Plat 3 shows lots located along Kirkland Lane, between Wentworth Street and Beaufain Street. Plat 4 shows lots located near the intersection of Gadsden Street and Beaufain Street. Plat 5 shows lots located along Lightwood Alley, between Meeting Street and Church Street. Plat 6 shows a lot and building located on Cannon Street, Between Coming Street and a label reading "Church."
Page 215 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with two plats. Plat 1 shows land located between Calhoun Street and Bull Street, and between Lynch Street and Rutledge Street. Plat 2, located inside a folding insert, shows land along Moultrie Street. Plat 2 also includes Hanover Street, Hill Street, Huger Street, Nassau Street, Meeting Street, Hampton Street, King Street, a lot labeled "Chas. Gas Light Co.," labels for high land, labels for marsh land, and a structure located on Hampton Street.
Page 213 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with two plats. Plat 1 features lots located between Savage Street and Chisolm Street, and between Tradd Street and Broad Street. Plat 1 also shows New Street, Rutledge Avenue, Lynch Street, Trapmann Street, and a lot labelled "Chisolm Mill Property." Plat 2 shows Calhoun Street's intersections with Lynch Street and Ashley Street.
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.
Page 210 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with two plats. Plat 1 features land set aside for a park, located between Lynch Street and Rutledge Street, and between Bennett Street and Calhoun Street. Plat 2 shows lots located between Simons Street and Gordon Street, near where they intersect with Rutledge Avenue.
Page 178 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with five plats. Plat 1 shows lots and structures located on and near King Street, near the intersection with "Shepheard" Street. Plat 2 shows lots located on and near Spring Street, King Street, and Meeting Street. Plat 3 shows lots and a building located near the intersection of King Street and Sheppard Street. Plat 4 shows lots located on a city block between Cooper Street and Lee Street, and between Aiken Street and America Street. One lot is labelled "Baptist Church Lot." Plat 5 shows Cooper Street, Aiken Street, Lee Street, and America Street.
Page 81 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with five plats. Plat 1 shows lots between Cooper Street and Blake Street, near their intersections with Drake Street. Plat 2 features an extension of Columbus Street stretching from Bay Street to the Cooper River, and also shows lots belonging to a cotton factory, the Northeastern Railroad Company (N.E.R.R. Co.), and the South Carolina Railway Company (So. Ca. R. Way Co.). Plat 3 features lots on a city block between Blake Street, Cooper Street, Drake Street, and Bay Street. Plat 4 shows land near Boundary Street, Pinckney Street, Doughty Street, and "Commings Creek." It also shows an island, a mill pond, several lots in the area, Hutson Street, Thomas Street, and President Street. Plat 5 shows land located between Calhoun Street and Bull Street, and Lynch Street and Rutledge Street, including Cannon Park.
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.