Pencil sketches and occasional watercolors by Charleston-born architect William Martin Aiken. Primarily landscapes and sketches of architectural elements in Boston, Mass.; Newport, R.I.; Brookline, Mass.; White Mountains, N.Y.; Chateaugay, N.Y.; and Quebec, Canada.
Typed copy of a narrative concerning the harassment of the Gregorie family at Myrtle Grove plantation near Mt. Pleasant, SC, 1866. Gregorie details the destruction of personal property and crops, the wounding of his daughter and his battle for compensation for the damages inflicted upon his farm and family by African American troops after the war. 1879.
Hand-colored wood engraving of a Jewish woman from Morocco. Wood engraving by Richard Henkel after Wilhelm Gentz. From Blätter für Kostümkunde, published Berlin: Franz Lipperheide.
A stereoscopic image of African American women holding baskets with wares on top of their heads and children carrying wares atop their head. The text at the bottom of the image identifies them as "street vendors."
Black-and-white etching of the Hauptsynagoge (Main Synagogue) on Hans-Sachs-Platz in Nuremberg. Etching by Lorenz Ritter. From Malerische Ansichten aus Nürnberg.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish woman from Tétouan. After a painting by Jean-François Portaels. Published in The Aldine, Volume 9.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jewish women from Tunis. From the article "Three continents in three weeks" by David Ker, published in the July 1879 edition of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
Caricature by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler published in the July 16, 1879, edition of Puck. The associated article reads in part : "The trouble with this country is that religion is getting to be altogether too much mixed up with affairs political and social; and the latest phase of this newest departure in American matters is the effort to populate the great waste places of the West with 'colonies' of certain religionists... Instead of little hamlets budding into thrifty villages, and blossoming into bustling cities, with the Methodist spire rising up into the same blue Heaven with the Catholic cross, while the dome of the Synagogue flashes between them--we are to have sectarian villages made up, as the case may be, exclusively either of Jews or Catholics..."
