A report from the mayor, city council and various governmental departments of Charleston, South Carolina, for the year 1898. The Year Book opens with an address from Mayor Smyth followed by reports from various departments.
The College of Charleston Magazine is a monthly publication released by the College of Charleston's Chrestomathic Society during the academic year. This volume is comprised of the bound together publications from the months of October 1898-June 1899.
The College of Charleston Magazine is a monthly publication released by the College of Charleston's Chrestomathic Society during the academic year. This volume is comprised of the bound together publications from the months of January-June.
Black-and-white Rosh Hashanah postcard of the exteriors of the Polnische Schul in the Leopoldsgasse, Türkischer Tempel (Turkish Temple) in the Zirkusgasse, and Leopoldstädter Tempel in the Leopoldstadt district in Vienna.
Black-and-white wood engraving of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. From an illustration by Isaac Snowman. Published in the June 4, 1898, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting the vestments of a Jewish high priest. From Aunt Charlotte's stories of Bible history for young disciples : designed for the 52 Sundays in the year containing, over 100 stories from the Holy Book, embracing instructive historical events from the Old and New Testaments by Charlotte M. Yonge.
Hand-colored lithograph with two scenes dated 1848 and 1898. 1848: "Emancipation of the Jews" depicts a Jewish man on his knees before an officer, offering a bag of money; in his other hand is a document labeled "Jewish emancipation." 1898: "The Christians as slaves of the Jews" depicts three Christians kneeling before a Jewish man in an officer's coat, as a Jewish man drives a Christian man with a whip in the background.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the synagogue located at 54 Pitt Street in New York. Originally built as a parochial school, the building later served Congregations Brith Sholem, Kochob Jacob Anshe Kamenitz de Lite, Poel Zedek Anshe Ileya, and Agudath Achim M'Krakau. Original illustration by W. A. Rogers. Published in the May 1898 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Color lithograph of the house in Frankfurter Judengasse, the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt am Main, where wedding and other celebrations were held. From Frankfurt am Main, die freie Stadt, in Bauwerken und Straßenbildern by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, published Frankfurt am Main: Carl Jügels Verlag, 1894-1898.