Samuel Wragg Ferguson writes to his godmother about news from West Point. He mentions a fire on Crow's Nest mountain, the dull routine of West Point and his eagerness for his June furlough. 5p.
Letter from Samuel Wragg Ferguson from West Point to his godmother. He writes about the mild winter at West Point this season, a rash of recent cadet accidents and his longing to be "warmed by a Dockon fire." 5p.
Letter from Samuel Wragg Ferguson from West Point to his godmother writing about a recent visit of relatives. He also mentions that he is looking forward to summer encampment and "no more study for two months." 3p.
Letter from Samuel Wragg Ferguson from West Point to his godmother. Ferguson writes about being transferred to Company A and "is now in the clutches of Lt. Nelson commonly known as fossil remains." He relates about failing his first inspection with the new commander "as an introduction to the Co." 4p.
Page 15 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with three plats. Plat 1 features plots located between Rutledge Street and Smith Street, near the intersections with Queen Street. Plat 2 features a lot on the corner of Tradd Street and Savage Street. Plat 3 shows the intersection of Calhoun Street and Rutledge Avenue (also labelled as Rutledge Street) with proposed changes.
Page 79 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with six plats. Plat 1 shows a lots and some structures located between Doughty Street and Palmetto Street, and also shows Ashley Street and a structure labelled "United States Arsenal Wall." Plat 2 shows lots located near the intersection of Bee Street and President Street. Plat 3 shows lots located on Doughty Street, between Ashley Street and Rutledge Street. Plat 4 features lots and land located near the intersection of Bee Street and President Street. The plat also shows a mill pond and several structures. Plat 5 shows lots located between Doughty Street and Mill Street, and near Ashley Street. Plat 5 also shows Palmetto Street and a lot labelled U. S. Arsenal. Plat 6 shows lots located between Thomas Street and Pinckney Street, with several structures.
Page 75 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with six plats. Plat 1 features lots located between Radcliffe Street and Calhoun Street, and between Smith Street and Rutledge Street. Plat 1 also shows Vanderhorst Street, Thomas Street, and Warren Street. Plat 2 shows lots located near Morris Street, between St. Philips Street and Coming Street. Plat 3 shows lots located near the intersection of Morris Street and Coming Street, including a lot labelled "Cemetery" and another lot labelled "Hebrew Cemetery." Plat 4 shows land located near Thomas Street, between Doughty Street and Hutson Street, and also labels a pond. Plat 5 shows lots located between Pine Street and Gadsden Creek. Plat 6 shows lots and some buildings located between Pinckney Street and Smith Street.
Page 51 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with seven plats. Plat 1 shows land located between Tradd Street and the Ashley River, and labels several features of geography such as a patch of marsh and some land labelled "Hard at low water." Plat 1 also shows a lot labelled "City Lands." Plat 2 shows lots and buildings located near the intersection of Tradd Street and Savage Street. Plat 3 shows land located on the west side of New Street. Plat 4 features a lot located at the intersection of New Street and Tradd Street. Plat 5 features lots located near the intersection of New Street and Tradd Street. Plat 6 shows lots located on and near Tradd Street. Plat 7 shows structures located near the intersection of New Street and Broad Street, including a building labelled "Theatre."
Page 56 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with seven plats. Plat 1 shows lots between Savage Street and Tradd Street. Plat 2 shows lots and some buildings on South Bay Street. Plat 3 shows lots between Savage Street and Broad Street. Plat 4 shows a lot and several buildings at the intersection of Friend and Queen Street. Plat 5 shows land near the corner of Legare Street and Gibbes Street, and a few buildings. Plat 6 shows a lot on the west side of Friend Street. Plat 7 shows lots located between Broad Street and Tradd Street, and between Lynch Street and the Ashley River.
Page 55 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with five plats. Plat 1 shows lots near the intersection of Broad Street and Queen Street. Plat 2 shows lots and some buildings on Broad Street. Plat 3 shows land and buildings between Broad Street and Short Street, near their intersections with Mazyck Street. Plat 4 shows lots near Broad Street, Franklin Street, and Trapman Street. Plat 5 shows lots between Broad Street and Short Street, near their intersections Mayzck Street.
Page 41 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with six plats. Plat 1 shows land between Mount Street and Congress Street, and between a private street and "CITY LANDS Potter's Field." Plat 2 shows lots near Chestnut Street and near Spring Street, Ashton Street, Always Street, Lilly Street, and Pine Street. It also shows a few bodies of water. Plat 3 shows lots near Meeting Street's intersections with Market Alley, and State House Alley. It also labels a court house, the Treasury and Guard House, and St. Michael's Church. Plat 4 shows a stretch of land near President Street, Logan Street, Pinckney Street, Fishburne Street, Mount Street, Congress Street, and shows bodies of water and highlands. Plat 5 shows lots and buildings near the intersection Church Street and Water Street.
Page 36 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with three plats. Plat 1 shows land located near President Street and Rutledge Avenue, and labels certain marshlands and bodies of water. Plat 2 shows lots located near the intersection of King Street and Grove Street, near Milligan Street. Plat 3 shows land and buildings located near the intersection of Pitt Street and Bull Street.
Page 38 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with two plats. Plat 1 shows lots located near Calhoun Street, some buildings, "Lots Belonging to Sundry Persons," and "The Mall." Plat 1 also shows Bennett Street, Ashley Street, Rutledge Street, Gadsden Street, and Lynch Street. Plat 2 features a lot on Smith Street.
Page 28 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with three plats. Plat 1 shows lots located near Calhoun Street, Bull Street, South Street, Ashley Street, Rutledge Street Lynch Street, and Bennett Street. Plat 1 also shows lots labelled "The Mall," and Lots Belonging to Sundry Persons. Plat 2 shows lots and buildings located near the intersection of Calhoun Street and Lucas Street, including lots labelled "Mansion Lot" and "Left for a Public Square." Plat 3 shows lots and buildings located near Bee Street, between Ashley Street and Rutledge Street.
Page 19 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with six plats. Plat 1 shows lots and buildings located near the intersection of Pitt Street and Bull Street. Plat 2 shows lots and buildings located near the intersection of Meeting Street and Reid Street. Plat 3 shows lots between King Street and Congress Street, also located near Grove Street and Moultrie Street. Plat 4 shows a lot on Amen Street labelled "Thomas N. Gadsen Esq." and noting multiple brick buildings. Plat 5 shows lots located on Cumberland Street. Plat 6 shows lots located on Amen Street and two two-story brick buildings.
Page 4 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with seven plats. Plat 1 features East Bay Street, Pinckney Street, Concord Street, and lots labelled "Burnt District." Plat 2 features lots on King Street. Plat 3 shows several lots on East Bay Street near the intersections with Pritchard Street and Hard Alley. Plat 4 shows three lots on East Bay Street. Plat 5 features lots at the intersection of East Bay Street and Hasell Street. Plat 5 shows a stretch of Queen Street including the intersections with Archdale Street and Friend Street, and includes a plat labelled "Catholic Church." Plat 7 shows plots of land on the intersection of Tradd Street and Meeting Street.
Page 3 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with four plats. Plat 1 features lots at the intersection of Laurens Street and East Bay Street, and labels a section of salt marsh. Plat 2 shows plots at the intersection of East Bay Street and Hasell Street. Plat 3 features three lots of land and buildings on East Bay Street. Plat 4 shows a stretch of Pinckney Street between Bay Street and the Cooper River, including several lots.
The Robert F.W. Allston Account Book, 1853-1855, records the numerous payments, receipts, debts and purchases and yearly crop information for Chicora Wood, Waverly and Nightingale Hall Plantations. Also included in the book are sections on births, deaths and marriages for enslaved people, writing down the first name of the men and women who married.
Printed broadside includes description of curriculum, rules of conduct, tuition and refereces. Madame Rosalie Acelie Togno opened her french and english boarding school for young ladies in Charleston under the patronage of James Louis Petigru in 1854. Initially located on Tradd Street, the school and dormitory for students was relocated to Meeting Street soon after. Togno was a fluent speaker of french and arrived in Charleston by way of New York. Her strict teaching style set new standards for education in antebellum Charleston and students were instructed in science, history, geograph and writing . Madame Togno's students included such notable women as Adele Allston Vanderhorst and Elizabeth Allston Waties Pringle. During the Civil War, Togno relocated her school to Barhamville, South Carolina but was forced to flee South Carolina soon after.
The Mulberry Plantation Journal for the years 1855-1856 was kept by overseers C.A. Ward and R. Meynardie who reported activities on the rice plantation. Entries note agricultural tasks, quantities of rice winnowed, weather conditions, sickness among slaves and individuals assinged to the nightly watch. The names of the slaves are listed throughout the journal as: Adeline/Adiline, Ben, Betty, Binah, Bristol, Charles/C. Charles/Cow Charles/Cow Charly/Young Charles, Carolina, Clarinda, Dinah, Fanny/Fany, Flora/Florah, Francis, Hanna/Hannah, Isaac, Jack/L. Jack/Little Jack, Jacob, Joe, Juba, Leah, Lewis, Lindy, Little Judy, Little Ned/Old Ned, Maryan, Myrah, Old Delia, Old Hariett, Paris/Parris, Patty, Pearce, Pierce, Sabrina, Sarah/Old Sara, Shammroc and Vinus
The last will and testament of Robert F.W. Allston contains additional provisions from a previous will surrounding new properties acquired by Robert Allston. He writes that he leaves his son Charles Allston, Chicora Wood Plantation. The enslaved persons are divided among the family and are listed as: Guy, driver Jack, Dido, driver Sam, Mary (faithful housekeeper), nurse Phebe, Bob, "Rochael," engineer Prince, Toby, blacksmith Anthony, Jacob, Henry, Emma, carpenter Gilbert, Minda, Phillis, blacksmith Sam, blacksmith Scotland, Jane, and driver Tommy. He leaves his overseer his "trusted servants" Boston, Venus and Hetty, "whose life he has, under Heaven, saved thus far." Robert Allston states that his servants James, Mary, and Milly be given fifteen dollars annually, Violet, Stephen and Auba ten dollars, and driver Sam and nurse Phebe five dollars as long as they live. The last page of the will states that the faithful servants James (who may choose his owner from any of the Allston children), Mary, and Milly "receive every proper kindness" from the Allston family as they "exhibited a trustful and abiding faith and by whom they have been justly appreciated, but never abused..."
A bill of sale for the enslaved man listed as "A negro male Slave named Caesar about forty years of age." The enslaved man was bought by James Adger from Abraham Tobias for $1,200.
Bill of sale for "sixteen negro slaves" for $5,800 sold by Edward North, executor of the estate of J.P Gough, to E.B. Means. The slaves are listed as Patty, Peggy, William, Mary, Tenah, Harriett, Willoughby, Jenn, James, Delia, Silvey, Toney, Sally, Henry, Kate and Caroline.
Photograph of Mary Elliott Barnwell (1850-1927) and Charles Mathews Barnwell (1852-1923), children of William H. W. and Catherine Osborn Barnwell. Cased daguerreotype, tinted. 9.5 x 8 cm. 1855.
Partial letter from Robert Woodward Barnwell, in Erlangen, to unknown correspondent describing the state of Christianity and theology in Germany. Barnwell also discusses his attempt to impart his knowledge of contemporary American political science but concedes that "slavery is a topic which cannot be understood, which everyone talks about but which I generally excise myself from speaking upon." 1855.
Volume contains a chronological record (1855-1856) of the number of bushels, tolls, vessels on which the rice arrived, names of individuals (plantation owners), where the rice was stored (floor and "binn") and the marks used, the names of factors, the vessels on which rice was shipped, and other data. Mill accounts contain expenses for rice, drayage, coopers, carpenters, watchman, Negroes (hire), labor, salaries of various individuals, repairs, baskets and brooms, rice, cords of wood, poles, barrels, mill stones, wharf building, cart license, a butcher's bill, horses, insurance on rice, discount on a note, sales of rice, ironwork, sweep chimney, blacksmith work, and other expenses. Income is from cash received at mill, from various individuals for rice flour and rice, from freight and tolls on rice, from notes, and from other items. The Cannonsborough Mills, begun in 1825 by former Governor Thomas Bennett, included twenty-two pestles driven by steam and fourteen pestles run by tide power. Its property fronted Ashley River a third of a mile. In 1847 Bennett deeded the property to his son-in-law, Jonathan Lucas, III. The larger of the Cannonsborough mills burnt in February of 1860.
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 28. In German, the text reads : --Jude: "Nu - Herr Baron - wann krieg' ich denn mein Geld für den Braunen, den ich Ihnen verkauft habe?" --Baron: "Wie alt bist Du Levi?" --Jude: "60 Jahre." --Baron: "Ei sechzig Jahre und noch so neugierig!" In English, the text reads : --Jew: "Nu - Mr. Baron - when will I get my money for the brown horse that I sold you?" --Baron: "How old are you, Levi?" --Jew: "60 years old." --Baron: "60 years old and yet so inquisitive!"
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 34. In German, the text reads : --"Soll uns Gott behüte, was thust de, reitst auf den Schacher an so hohem Fasttag?" --"Üh wie komm ich mir vor - woas für'n Fasttag?" --"Nu - Zerstörung Jerusalems - --"Was kümmerts mich - hab ich doch ka Haus in Jerusalem." In English, the text reads : --"May God protect us, what are you doing, are you riding off to haggle on such an important fast day?" --"Ugh, how do I feel about this - what sort of day of fasting?" --"Nu - the destruction of Jerusalem -" --"What do I care - I don't have a house in Jerusalem."
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 5. In German, the text reads : --"Jude, was ist das für eine Betrügerei?? Bei den renomistischen Anzeigen bekommt man ein Zeug, das nicht zu rauchen ist." --"Wai geschrien, Ihr Herren, es ist kein Betrug, doch bekannt ist, dass Eigenlob stinkt." In English, the text reads : --"Jew, what sort of scam is this?? In the boastful advertisements, you get some stuff that isn't even good enough to smoke." --"Oh, quit yelling, gentlemen, it is no scam, but it is well known, that self-praise stinks." The sign on the cigar store reads: "Here is the best variety of tobacco in the world."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the New Synagogue at Great St. Helen's in London. Published in the December 8, 1855, edition of the Illustrated Times.
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 9. In German, the text reads : --"Sagens mol sachverständiger Maister von de Kunst, mein Sohn wird doch später sehr fain werden, schauns schwarze Augen, schwarze Haare hat er schon und wenn er alt wird werden so kriegt er noch ä krümmer Nas." In English, the text reads : --"Say, knowledgeable master of the arts, my son will become very attractive later in life, look at his black eyes, he already has black hair and when he gets older he'll get a crooked nose as well."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish man from Poland at prayer. From An illustrated description of the Russian empire by Robert Sears.
Color lithograph of the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. After a lithograph by Louis Haghe from a drawing by David Roberts. From The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, Volume 1, published London: Lithographed, printed and published by Day & Son.
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 12. In German, the text reads : --Levi: "Wai - ich sterbe - ich hab jedem von Euch vermacht, 8000 Thaler, mein Sohn soll sie Euch auszahlen nach Jahresfrist." --Erben: "Warum erst nach Jahresfrist, Herr Levi?" --Levi: "Nu - bezahlt mir den Diskonto, so will ich's so ins Testament setzen, dass Ihr sie gleich kriegen könnt." In English, the text reads: --Levi: "Oh - I'm dying - I have bequeathed each of you 8000 Thaler, my son will disburse them to you after a year." --Heirs: "Why only after a year?" --Levi: "Nu - Pay off my discount for me, then I will put it in the will, that you all can receive it right away." Discounting is a financial mechanism in which a debtor obtains the right to delay payments to a creditor in exchange for a charge or fee.
Caricature published in the Düsseldorfer Monathefte, Band 8, No. 39. In German, the text reads : --"Denken Sie sich Herr Commerzienrath, da hab ich gestern und heute den ganzen Tag auf einem Wechsel gestanden, und hab nichts drauf gekriegt." --"Das macht, weil Sie nicht seind solid Baronsche, steh ich auf à Wechsel kriege Se überall was drauf." In English, the text reads : --"Do you think of yourself as a Commerzienrath, while I spent all day yesterday and today at the Exchange, and received nothing for it." --"That's due to the fact that you are not a baron, if I were to stand at the exchange, you would have received something from everywhere."
Color lithograph of Polish Jews in Jaffa, returning from their pilgrimage to Jerusalem. After lithographs by Louis Haghe from drawings by David Roberts. From The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, published London: Day & Son.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of actress Rachel Félix, known as Mademoiselle Rachel, in costume as the title character in Jean Racine's tragedy Phèdre. Published in the September 22, 1855, edition of Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
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