A report from the mayor, city council and various governmental departments of Charleston, South Carolina, for the year 1898. The Year Book opens with an address from Mayor Smyth followed by reports from various departments.
Rev. Louis Muller's recognition of fifty years of service at St. Matthw's German Lutheran Church, including his first service on Easter Sunday in 1848 and his record of service including, 4,402 baptisms, 1,440 confirmations, 1503 marriages, and burials of 4,163 friends, inlcuding the period in 1854 when the yellow fever epidemic swept through Charleston.
Compilation of original deeds, titles, and other documents related to the transfer, sale, and ownership of the double tenement at 72-74 Tradd Street, known as the Fotheringham-McNeil Tenements. Documents span from 1765 to 1961, likely representing the entire history of the ownership of the double tenement throughout that time period. Also includes blueprints and photographs. (NOTE: Fotheringham has also been spelled Fotheringham.)
Photographs taken by Sabina Elliott Wells in 1898-1899. Wells was a Charleston artist and designer; she was also a Newcomb potter. Photographs include scenes in Charleston and the Lowcountry, in northwest South Carolina (Table Rock and vicinity), and in western North Carolina (Flat Rock and vicinity). Scans were derived from negatives donated to Historic Charleston Foundation. (Note: Wells's diaries from 1898-1899 that document some of her travels, including sites represented in these photographs, are at the South Carolina Historical Society, "Sabina E. Wells papers, 1886-1942.")
In this five page program for Avery's commencement activities for the class of 1898, the events of the commencement ceremony are listed. A list of honor roll students is also included as well as the words to the class hymn.
The College of Charleston Magazine is a monthly publication released by the College of Charleston's Chrestomathic Society during the academic year. This volume is comprised of the bound together publications from the months of October 1898-June 1899.
The College of Charleston Magazine is a monthly publication released by the College of Charleston's Chrestomathic Society during the academic year. This volume is comprised of the bound together publications from the months of January-June.
Page 122 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with three plats. Plat 1 shows lots and structures on Meeting Street. Plat 2 shows lots and structures located near the intersection of Anson Street and Laurens Street. Plat 3 shows lots located between Moultrie Street and Huger Street, near Rutledge Avenue.
Page 100 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with four plats. Plat 1 features lots located near the intersection of Broad Street and Friend Street. Plat 2 shows lots and structures on Meeting Street. Plat 3 shows land located near the intersection of Drake Street and Cool Blow Street, including a stretch of the North Eastern Rail Road, a creek leading to the Cooper River, and some marshland. Plat 4 is affixed to the page so it folds in and out, and shows lots located near a stream, Pine Street, Alleyway Street, Norman Street, and Ashton Street.
Page 102 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with five plats. Plat 1 shows lots along a stretch of Rutledge Avenue from Grove Street to Sans Souci Street. Plat 2 features a projected extension of Rutledge Avenue from Mt. Pleasant Road to Heriot Street, and also shows a lot labelled "S.C. Agricultural Society." Plat 3 shows a projected extension Rutledge Avenue, extending from Sans Souci Street to Mt. Pleasant Road. Plat 4 shows a projected expansion of Rutledge Avenue through Heriot Street, and also shows a plot labelled "Agricultural Society." Plat 5 shows a projected extension of Rutledge Avenue from Grove Street to Simons Street, and also shows King Street.
Black-and-white Rosh Hashanah postcard of the exteriors of the Polnische Schul in the Leopoldsgasse, Türkischer Tempel (Turkish Temple) in the Zirkusgasse, and Leopoldstädter Tempel in the Leopoldstadt district in Vienna.
Black-and-white wood engraving of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. From an illustration by Isaac Snowman. Published in the June 4, 1898, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting the vestments of a Jewish high priest. From Aunt Charlotte's stories of Bible history for young disciples : designed for the 52 Sundays in the year containing, over 100 stories from the Holy Book, embracing instructive historical events from the Old and New Testaments by Charlotte M. Yonge.
Hand-colored lithograph with two scenes dated 1848 and 1898. 1848: "Emancipation of the Jews" depicts a Jewish man on his knees before an officer, offering a bag of money; in his other hand is a document labeled "Jewish emancipation." 1898: "The Christians as slaves of the Jews" depicts three Christians kneeling before a Jewish man in an officer's coat, as a Jewish man drives a Christian man with a whip in the background.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the synagogue located at 54 Pitt Street in New York. Originally built as a parochial school, the building later served Congregations Brith Sholem, Kochob Jacob Anshe Kamenitz de Lite, Poel Zedek Anshe Ileya, and Agudath Achim M'Krakau. Original illustration by W. A. Rogers. Published in the May 1898 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Color lithograph of the house in Frankfurter Judengasse, the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt am Main, where wedding and other celebrations were held. From Frankfurt am Main, die freie Stadt, in Bauwerken und Straßenbildern by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, published Frankfurt am Main: Carl Jügels Verlag, 1894-1898.
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