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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
