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Start Over Collection William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection - Prints and Photographs Media Type Images Date 1899

2. West Slav Jew merchants--Types.

Date:
1899 and 1895
Description:
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jewish merchants from Poland. From a drawing by Eugène Joseph Viollat. From Ridpath's universal history, Volume 5, by John Clark Ridpath.

3. [Ephraim Bonus]

Date:
1899
Description:
Facsimile reproduction of a black-and-white etched portrait of physician Ephraim Bonus (also called Ephraim Bueno). Original etching by Rembrandt. Reproduction printed by the Reichsdruckerei Berlin.

4. Our worst editor. Joseph Pulitzer, and his opinion of Life.

Date:
1899
Description:
Caricature of Joseph Pulitzer published in the March 9, 1899, edition of Life. The associated article reads : "The editor of the World is known wherever bad English is read, and depraved minds everywhere hail him as a source of inspiration. He has probably done more harm to morals, and has fostered with more real persistency the rapid undergrowth of American degeneracy than any other living man. What he might say of Life is therefore of great interest : 'Don' speag to me of Life. Dot paper is der worst ever, ain't it? Ven de Sun un Churnal un udder file sheets gome out against me, I laf ha-ha! Vat does it madder? But Life! Dot paper goes to der very peoples dot I vould buy myselluf a place among, because of my monish, un day vill not have me, Hah! It has cut into my cirgulation also, un made me a laughing stock. It makes me sick. Speag to me not of Life.' Mr. Pulitzer's views, though not new, may well bear reiterating, showing, as they do, that no refined family of taste can afford not to take Life regularly. Contrast the shame-faced individual with some grains of self-respect left who stealthily endeavors to conceal a copy of the World from sight, and the proud bearing of the man who spreads his Life where all may see the company he keeps. Merely to be seen with a copy of Life is a good mind advertisement."

5. Lithuanian Jews--Types.

Date:
1899 and 1895
Description:
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jews from Lithuania. From a drawing by Jean Antoine Valentin Foulquier. From Ridpath's universal history, Volume 5, by John Clark Ridpath.

9. Captain Alfred Dreyfus

Date:
1899
Description:
Black-and-white offset print reproduction with a portrait of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus during his 1899 trial for treason, from a sketch by Dr. Benoit Cimino. Published in the August 26, 1899, edition of Harper's Weekly.

10. [Stadttempel, Wien]

Date:
1899 and 1800
Description:
Black-and-white photograph of the interior of the Stadttempel in Vienna.