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Description:: Photograph of the ruins of the ‘Temple of Zeus’ in Athens, Greece. Captioned: “53 Temple of Zeus Olympios from the N E“

Description:: Photograph of a sculpture of ‘Nike erecting trophy’ from Athens, Greece. Captioned: “974 Nike erecting trophy A.M.Athens.“

Description:: Photograph of a sculpture of ‘Nike fastening her sandal’ from Athens, Greece. Captioned: “973.Nike fastening her sandal. A M Athens.“

Date:: 1912
Description:: Sketches of Turkey, Greece, France, and South Carolina, by Charleston architect Albert Simons.

Date:: 1848, 1846, and 1847
Description:: The Charles Manigault Letter Book, 1846-1848 is a bound volume kept by Charles I. Manigault while living in Paris, France with his family between 1846-1848. Letters were sent to James Coward, overseer at Silk Hope Plantation, Thomas Middleton, R. Habersham & Son, Alfred Huger, Anthony Barclay, Y. Haynes, overseer at Gowrie Plantation, Louis Manigault and Charles Manigault Jr. Topics of conversation found in these letters include business operations at the plantations, enslaved people's resistance via running away, treatment and punishment of slaves, a group of slaves taking an overseer to court, living abroad in Paris, Charles Manigault's views on racial equality in Paris, the Manigault children's schooling in Paris and at Yale College, traveling Europe, meeting Muhammad Ali, the leader of Egypt and discussing the Mexican American War and Egyptian politics, Charles Manigault's Huguenot ancestry and history, and being in Paris during the French Revolution of 1848.