Typescript memoir entitled, "A Summary of the Principal Events of My Life," written by Philip Phillips, June 1870. Phillips' memoir includes early biographical information, his education, the beginnings and development of his career as a lawyer and eventually as a congressman, the Tariff Acts of 1828, the Missouri Compromise, the beginnings of the Civil War, and his wife's imprisonment in Washington D.C. and on Ship Island. The memoir also relates various experiences had by the Phillips family throughout the Civil War.
Postcard with a reproduction of a painted portrait by Franz Rederer of Hebert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine. The original oil painting is held at the National Portrait Gallery.
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.
Black-and-white photographic postcard of Hebert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine; Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the Colonies; and Meir Dizengoff in Tel Aviv on March 30, 1921.
