A report from the mayor, city council and various governmental departments of Charleston, South Carolina for the year 1900. The yearbook 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 1900-June 1901.
A stereoscopic image of African Americans, including children, picking cotton in a Mississippi field. Two young children are posed in the foreground with a basket of cotton.
This album is comprised of portraits and photographs of Gertrude Sanford and members of her family, including her grandmother, Gertrude Ellen du Puy, her father, John Sanford, and her siblings, Stephen and Sarah Jane Sanford.
View of top floor (the Archaeological room of museum) of Randolph Hall. Construction of Randolph Hall, the most recognizable building at the College, began in 1828 under the direction of architect William Strickland. Flanking wings and portico for the main building were designed by Edward Brickell White and erected circa 1850. In 1886 the wings were destroyed by the Charleston earthquake and rebuilt between 1888 to 1894 under the direction of Gabriel Manigault.
Postcard with a reproduction of a painting by John Fulleylove of the Tomb of Absalom, Tomb of Benei Hezir, and Tomb of Zechariah in the Valley of Jehoshaphat (Kidron Valley) in Jerusalem.
Postcard with a reproduction of Jacob van Ruisdael's painting of the Beth Haim cemetery in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. The original painting is held by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
Black-and-white photographic postcard of a monument in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. During the sanitization of Josefov in 1903, the Jewish community was forced to yield a part of the cemetery to the construction of a new road (today’s 17th November Street). Exhumed remains were buried in another part of the cemetery, on a Nefel mound in front of the Klausen Synagogue. This monument erected by the Chevra Kadisha describes and remembers these events.
Postcard with a reproduction of an etching by E.M. Lilien of the gravestone of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. From the book Erez Israel und sein Volk.