Joseph Walker Barnwell, Gottingen, Germany, writes to brother, Allard Belin Barnwell. Barnwell talks of how being in Europe has made him more of an "American" rather than a "Southerner" and discusses weekly social activities with his compatriots. He mentions the near universal editorial contempt for a recent magazine article by Harriet Beecher Stowe concerning Lord Byron and hopes a similar "justice" will one day fall on "Uncle Tom's Cabin." He also derides the antics of anti-Catholic preacher, John Cumming, and describes the curious wedding custom of smashing crockery and dinnerware at the door of the bride-to-be.
Hand-colored lithograph depicting a crowd outside of the Stock Exchange. The caption reads : "The warning sign is no better here than in the vineyard." The sign reads "Verbotener Weg" (entry forbidden).
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Moritz Oppenheim's painting The Wedding (Die Trauung). Published in the May 1, 1869, ediction of L'Univers illustré.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the former location of Temple Emanu-El at 5th Avenue and 43rd Street in New York. From Manual of the corporation of the City of New York.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction with a portrait of Baron James Mayer de Rothschild. Published in the January 30, 1869, edition of Harper's Bazar.
Hand-colored wood engraving of a hunchbacked Jewish man, Jaapje Blok, who hires himself out as a lectern at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. Wood engraving by Henricus Adrianus (Henri) Bogaerts. Published in De katholieke illustratie : zondags-lektuur voor het katholieke Nederlandsche volk.
Hand-colored engraved map of Palestine. From Colton’s General atlas : containing one hundred and eighty steel plate maps and plans, on one hundred and nineteen imperial folio sheets / drawn by G. Woolworth Colton ; letter-press descriptions, geographical, statistical, and historical, by Richard Swainson Fisher, published New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Portuguese synagogue in rue Lamartine. After a painting by Jacob-Emile-Edouard Brandon. From the May 29, 1869, edition of L'Univers illustré.