Black-and-white wood engraving depicting Simchat Torah at the Park East Synagogue in New York. Original illustration by Irving R. Wiles. From the article "The Jews in New York" by Richard Wheatley, published in the January 1892 edition of The Century Magazine.
Color lithographic print of Arthur Szyk's painting Purim. From Arthur Szyk : Six paintings of Jewish holidays, published New York : Arthur Rothmann Fine Arts.
Print reproduction of the oil painting The Praying Jew (The Rabbi of Vitebsk) by Marc Chagall. The original painting is held in the Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Color print reproduction of a painting by Stanislaus Bender. From A collection of paintings by Stan. Bender, published Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of actress Rachel Félix, known as Mademoiselle Rachel. Engraving by Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont after a drawing by Henri Lehmann. Published by L'Artiste.
Black-and-white photograph of a Jewish man from North Africa. The caption on the back of the photograph reads: "There are many Orthodox Jews in North Africa, descendants of ancestors who have probably lived there since Emperor Hadrian banished the Jews from Rome."
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 25. In German, the text reads : --"Ach so Männecken! Gut dass ick Ihnen treffe! Sie sind ja der famose Kleider-händler aus die Bolkerstrasse! Ick wollte grade zu Ihnen mir uff den Sommer ee-nen neuen Pariser Paletôt koofen! Da ick Ihnen nu treffe können Sie mich gleich den Ihrigten überlassen!!" In English, the text reads : --"Oh, mate! Good that I'm running into you! You're the famous clothing merchant from Bolker Street! I was just on my way to you, to buy myself a new Parisian overcoat for the summer! Now that I've run into, you can give me your own!!"
Black-and-white engraving depicting priestly vestments. From Philologus hebræo-mixtus by Johannes Leusden, published Basileæ, apud E. & J.R. Thurnisios, fratres.
Color print reproduction of the painting Rabbi Braiding the Fringe of a Tallit by Stanislaus Bender. From A collection of paintings by Stan. Bender, published Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann.
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting the Jewish Quarter in Safed. Engraving after a drawing by Henry Fenn. From Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Volume 2, edited by Charles William Wilson, published London: J. S. Virtue and Co., 1881-1884.
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting the Jewish Quarter in Safed. Engraving after a drawing by Henry Fenn. From La Terre Sainte : son histoire, ses souvenirs, ses sites, ses monuments by Victor Guérin, published Paris: E. Plon.
Work on paper, 15.5cm x 23cm. Unidentified sketch of a porch, buildings (including a post office), and a street.Leaflet cover for the Nantahala National Forest.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting soferim. From A dictionary of the Bible : comprising its antiquities, biography, geography, natural history and literature... by William Smith, published Philadelphia: Porter and Coates.
Caricature of a Jewish man, accompanied by a poem : "You horrid 'sheeney,' though you strut / About, and wear the best of clothes; / Your dirty soul looks thro' your eyes, / You cannot hide your fearful nose. / With stony heart you grind the poor, / On 'cash' your thoughts are all intent; / You're never satisfied, unless / You get at least your 'cent per cent.'"
Color lithographic print of Arthur Szyk's painting Simchat Torah. From Arthur Szyk : Six paintings of Jewish holidays, published New York : Arthur Rothmann Fine Arts.
Hand-colored engraving of the interior of a synagogue. Engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso. From Il costume antico e moderno, o, storia del governo, della milizia, della religione, delle arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i popoli antichi e moderni, Asia, Volume 5, by Giulio Ferrario.
Black-and-white engraving of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Engraving by Goupil & Cie after a painting by Jean Léon Gérôme. From The masterpieces of French art illustrated : being a biographical history of art in France, from the earliest period to and including the Salon of 1882, Volume 1, by Louis Viardot, published Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co.
Black-and-white photogravure of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Photogravure by Goupil & Cie after a painting by Jean Léon Gérôme. From Gérôme, a collection of the works of J. L. Gérôme in one hundred photogravures, Volume 2, edited by Edward Strahan, published New York: Samuel L. Hall.
Sheet music for Zion Songs, including "ha-Tiḳṿah, und Dorṭ ṿu di tseder" = "Hatikvoh, und Dort wu die zeder," words and music by Naphtali Herz Imber, published New York: S. Schenker.
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : --Ikey Rosenbeak: "Oh, Papa, do buy me some ohf dose peaudiful Roman candles--de man says dere is tree golden balls in every one ohf dem!"
Color print reproduction of an illustration by Jaroslav Šetelík of the interior of the Old New Synagogue in Prague. From Praha by Jaroslav Šetelík, published Prague: Legiografie.
Photograph of 105 Wentworth St., one of several fraternity houses along the street. 103 and 105 Wentworth were built by the Mutual Real Estate Company in 1910 and acquired by the College in 1974.
Photograph of 103 Wentworth St., one of several fraternity houses along the street. 103 and 105 Wentworth were built by the Mutual Real Estate Company in 1910 and acquired by the College in 1974.
Photograph of the renovation of 101 Wentworth St., one of several fraternity houses along the street. 99 and 101 Wentworth were built by the Queen Investment Company circa 1900 and acquired by the College in 1974.