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1. Charleston Year Book, 1899

Date:
1899
Description:
A report from the mayor, city council and various governmental departments of Charleston, South Carolina, for the year 1899. The Year Book opens with an address from Mayor Smyth followed by reports from various departments.

2. College of Charleston Magazine, 1899-1900

Date:
1899
Description:
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 1899-June 1900.

3. Sanford Family Photograph Album, 1899

Date:
1899
Description:
This album is comprised of photographs of Sanford family members, including John Sanford, his parents, Stephen and Sarah Jane Cochran Sanford, his wife, Ethel Sanford, and their children, Stephen Sanford, Sarah Jane Sanford, and Gertrude Sanford.

14. 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.

18. 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."

27. [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.

29. Buttons of John Brown's raiders

Date:
1899
Description:
Three bone buttons acquired from the bodies of John Brown's raiders. The bodies were reinterred at the John Brown Farm in North Elba, New York in 1899. Mounted and framed with a caricature of John Brown.

33. The Dreyfus Verdict

Date:
1899
Description:
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus during his 1899 trial for treason. Published in the supplement to Harper's Weekly, No. 2230, September 16, 1899.

34. Sabina E. Wells Photographs

Date:
1899 and 1898
Description:
Photographs taken by Sabina Elliott Wells in 1898-1899. Wells was a Charleston artist and designer; she was also a Newcomb potter. Photographs include scenes in Charleston and the Lowcountry, in northwest South Carolina (Table Rock and vicinity), and in western North Carolina (Flat Rock and vicinity). Scans were derived from negatives donated to Historic Charleston Foundation. (Note: Wells's diaries from 1898-1899 that document some of her travels, including sites represented in these photographs, are at the South Carolina Historical Society, "Sabina E. Wells papers, 1886-1942.")

35. Sunrise from Pike's Peak

Date:
1899
Description:
Embossed on front: "53113 Sunrise from Pike's Peak. Copyright 1899 by Detroit Photographic Co."

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. Künstlerhaus u. Synagogue

Date:
1899
Description:
Postcard with a reproduction of a drawing of the exterior of the old Main Synagogue in Munich.

39. [Stadttempel, Wien]

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