Page 125 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with seven plats. Plat 1 shows several measurements for a structure. Plat 2 shows the line of division between St. Mary's Church Yard and the "Property of Mrs. Anna D. Fleming." Plat 3 shows two wharves. Plat 4 shows lots and structures near wharf street. Plat 5 shows lots near the intersection of Washington Street and Laurens Street. Plat 6 shows lots between Rose Lane and Market Street, near where they intersect with East Bay Street. Plat 7 shows lots between Congress Street and Race Street, near Rutledge Street.
Page 134 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with eleven plats. Plat 1 shows lots and structures located on Lynch Street. Plat 2 shows a lot located on Wentworth Street, with a building labelled "Charleston Engine House." Plat 3 shows lots located near the intersection of Calhoun Street and Ogier Street. Plat 4 shows lots located on Ogier Street. Plat 5 shows lots located on Ogier Street, near its intersection with Calhoun Street. Plat 6 shows lots located along Clifford Alley, near where it intersects with Archdale Street. Plat 7 shows lots located near the intersection of Calhoun Street and Ogier Street. Plat 8 shows lots located near the intersection of Vanderhorst Street and Ogier Street. Plat 9 shows lots located near the intersection of Calhoun Street and Ogier Street. Plat 10 shows lots located on and near Boundary Street, near where it intersects with St. Philips Street. Plat 11 features a lot owned by "The Unitarian Church," located on the intersection of Archdale Street and Clifford Alley.
Page 88 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with eight plats. Plat 1 shows a stream and marshland starting at the Ashley River. Plat 2 features land located near the Ashley River and Grove Street. It also features several structures, some marshland, and a creek. Plat 3 shows land located near Grove Street, including some structures, some marshland, and a stream. Plat 4 shows land located Grove Street, including some buildings, a creek, and marshland. Plat 5 shows lots located between a stretch of marsh and Rutledge Avenue. Plat 5 also shows Congress Street, Legare Street, Huger Street, Moultrie Street, and a race track. Plat 6 features Washington Race Course, located between Grove Street and Moultrie Street, and between Congress Street and an unlabeled Street. Plat 7 shows "34 acres of Marsh" located between the Ashley River and a public cemetery. Plat 8 shows marshland located on the Ashley River, near "new Spring Street" and a creek.
Page 84 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with five plats. Plat 1 shows lots located near Meeting Street, between Sheppard Street and Line Street. Plat 2 shows lots located along Race Street, between Rutledge Street and King Street. Plat 3 shows lots located between King Street and Meeting Street, and shows a stretch of Russell Street. Plat 4 features a lot and several buildings located near the intersection of Line Street and Meeting Street. Plat 4 also shows a label reading "The Rail Road" and another reading "Rail Road Company." Plat 5 features a lot on Hanover Street, and also shows a lot labelled "Cemetery."
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Page 72 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with eight plats. Plat 1 is labelled as a "Plan of Mazyckborough" and shows land located near the intersections of Charlotte Street with Alexander Street and Washington Street. Plat 1 also shows marshlands, streams, and the Cooper River. Plat 2 features a lot and its structures located on Henrietta Street. Plat 3 shows lots located between Concord Street and the edge of the Cooper River Channel, and also shows Wharf Street. Plat 5 shows land and buildings located on Washington Street, and includes some marshland and a stream labelled "Creek to Cooper River." Plat 6 shows a "Plan of a Part of Wraggsborough" located between Elizabeth Street and the Cooper River Channel. The plat also labels some marshlands, part of a creek, Mazyckborough, the Village of Hampstead, "The Mall," Chapel Street, and Washington Street. Plat 7 shows a lot located near the intersection of King Street and Calhoun Street, and shows several structures including a kitchen. Plat 8 shows a plan for a market located on Boundary Street, near Water Street, Front Street, and Gadsden's Canal.
Page 70 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with two plats. Plat 1 shows lots located near the intersection of "Broad Road" and George Street, with several buildings and bodies of water. Plat 2 shows a mill pond, marshlands, and structures located near the Ashley River.
Page 62 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with eight plats. Plat 1 shows lots located near East Bay Street. Plat 2 shows a lot on Concord Street, including a wharf. Plat 3 shows three Wharf Lots on Wharf Street, near the intersection with Inspection Street. Plat 4 features a lot on Wharf Street with a dock and a brick building, across the street from a building labelled "Eagle Foundry." Plat 5 shows a lot with several buildings on East Bay Street. Plat 6 shows land near the intersection of East Bay Street and Cumberland Street, with a stretch labelled "Passage to what is now called Central Wharves." Plat 7 shows a wharf and yard on Concord Street, and a structure labelled "Cotton Shed on Brick Pillars." Plat 8 shows a lot located at the intersection of Anson Street and Calhoun Street.
Page 7 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with four plats. Plat 1 shows lots on Bay Street. Plat 2 features plots on Hanover Street near the intersection with Reid Street and shows a lot labelled "African Burial Ground." Plat 3 features lots between Payne Street and Rutledge Street, near Fishburne Street and Market Street. Plat 4 shows lots and buildings near the intersection King Street and Broad Street. Plat 5 features lots on Cumberland Street.
The Charles Manigault Letter Book, 1846-1848 is a bound volume kept by Charles I. Manigault while living in Paris, France with his family between 1846-1848. Letters were sent to James Coward, overseer at Silk Hope Plantation, Thomas Middleton, R. Habersham & Son, Alfred Huger, Anthony Barclay, Y. Haynes, overseer at Gowrie Plantation, Louis Manigault and Charles Manigault Jr. Topics of conversation found in these letters include business operations at the plantations, enslaved people's resistance via running away, treatment and punishment of slaves, a group of slaves taking an overseer to court, living abroad in Paris, Charles Manigault's views on racial equality in Paris, the Manigault children's schooling in Paris and at Yale College, traveling Europe, meeting Muhammad Ali, the leader of Egypt and discussing the Mexican American War and Egyptian politics, Charles Manigault's Huguenot ancestry and history, and being in Paris during the French Revolution of 1848.
Bill of sale for "negro slave named Cyrus" who is the property of William S. McDonald and sold to Stephen Ford for $650. The reverse side includes a testimony to the sale.
Notes on Charles Sumner's Lecture on White Slavery in the Barbary States, 1847, is a bound journal kept by a member of the Allston family in which they summarize the lecture given by Charles Sumner at the Boston Mercantile Library Association. The lecture discusses the Missouri Compromise, the "peculiar institution of the south," the history of slavery by the nations of antiquity, the importation of enslaved people into the English world, a timeline of slavery in the United States and Sumner's opinions of slavery as being cruel and sinful.
Hand-colored engraving of a Jewish woman from Algiers. Engraving after Théophile Emmanuel Duverger. From Die Völker des Erdballs nach ihrer Abstammung und Verwandtschaft und ihren Eigenthümlichkeiten in Regierungsform, Religion, Sitte und Tracht by Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus, published Brüssel und Leipzig: Carl Muquardt.
Two black-and-white illustrations of the Semper-Synagoge (Semper Synagogue), also known as the Dresdner Synagoge (Dresden Synagogue) or Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue), showing a view of the synagogue and a scaled drawing of the building's façade. Published in the Allgemeine Bauzeitung in 1847.
Hand-colored engraving of a Jewish man and woman from Algiers. Engraving by E. Vermocken. From Les moeurs et costumes de tous les peuples, d'après les documents les plus authentiques, les voyages les plus récents et des matériaux inédits by Casimir Henricy, published Paris: Librairie ethnographique.
Color lithograph of Jewish children from Algeria. Illustration by Louis Lassalle. Lithograph printed Paris: J. Rigo et Cie. From L'Algérie de la jeunesse by Christian Pitois, published Paris : Alph. Desesserts.
Black-and-white steel engraving of the Tomb of Absalom, Tomb of Benei Hezir, and Tomb of Zechariah in the Valley of Jehoshaphat (Kidron Valley) in Jerusalem. Engraving by Edward Paxman Brandard after William Henry Bartlett. From The Christian in Palestine : or, Scenes of sacred history, historical and descriptive by Henry Stebbing, published London: George Virtue.
