Black-and-white portrait photograph of Gertrude Legendre signed: “4 R. Pt. des Champs-Elysees, Portraits G. L. Manuel freres.” Handwritten caption: “G. S. Legendre, Paris - '36.”
Letter to Jane L. Raisin from her husband, Jacob S. Raisin, regarding his travels abroad. The letter addresses reading letters from the family, the end of his Mediterranean trip, his upcoming boat trip back to America, and some of his time in France.
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.
A letter from William Ball in Edinburgh, Scotland to his father John Ball Sr. in Charleston, South Carolina discussing a letter of credit, the severe winter in Edinburgh, deciding not to travel to Paris for medical school, plans to return to Charleston to work as a doctor, and William's opinions on the study of medicine.
Contract for the purchase of a seat in the women's gallery of the Synagogue de Nazareth, located on the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, in Paris. Seat paid for by Anselme Halphen.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Synagogue de Nazareth, located on the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, in Paris during the funeral service of Commandant Léon Franchetti, killed in the battle of Champigny. Published in the December 16, 1871 edition of L'Univers illustré.
This 1948 photograph shows Francine, Germaine, and Suzanne Ajzensztark in their Paris flat at 17 Boulevard de la Villette. The family had to sue to get their flat back from a woman that occupied it during the war and didn't want to return it to the Ajzensztarks after the war.
This 1947 photograph of Francine was taken in Paris, France. She was asked to sit for a photographer she met at a wedding, and she received this photograph in return.
Black-and-white photographic postcard of the May 28, 1937, inauguration of the Exposition internationale, held in Paris. From left to right: Louis Asscher, president of the committee for the Pavillon d'Israel en Palestine, and French govenrment ministers Justin Godart and Paul Bastid.
