Page 148 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with two plats. Plat 1 shows lots and structures located on and near Calhoun Street, between Washington Street and the Cooper River. Plat two shows "Lots in the Village of Rikersville," including 21 acres of marshland, a canal, and a pond.
Page 149 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with one plat. The plat shows lots located between Meeting Street and King Street, including a stretch of railroad.
Statement of receipts and expenditures for the construction of Vernizobre Bank ("bank" believed to refer to a river bank or dyke). Earliest date appearing on the document is an expenditure to the contractor in 1854. 2p.
Page 158 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with four plats. Plat 1 shows lots located on South Street, near where it intersects with Hanover Street. Plat 2 shows lots located on and near Mill Street, near its intersections with Lucas Street and President Street, and shows a building labelled "Dead House" and a creek labeled as "leading to canal." Plat 3 shows lots and structures located on East Bay Street. Plat 4 shows South Bay Street and its intersections with Legare Street and King Street.
Page 232 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with one plat. The plat shows lots and structures between East Bay Street and the Cooper River, and between Society Street and Vernon Street. The plat also shows Washington Street, Marsh Street, Concord Street, Vernon Street, and Wharf Street.
Page 61 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with four plats. Plat 1 features a lot and buildings located between East Bay Street and Concord Street, and between Pritchard Street and Hasell Street. Plat 2 shows lots between Pritchard Street and Hard Alley, near their intersections with East Bay Street. Plat 3 shows lots located on Pritchard Street, between East Bay Street and Concord Street, with some buildings labelled. Plat 4 shows lots located near the intersection of Meeting Street and Queen Street with some buildings and structures labelled.
Page 29 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with three plats. Plat 1 shows lots and structures located near Calhoun Street, Rutledge Street, Lynch Street, Gadsden Street, Lucas Street, and Bennett Street, including a lot labelled "Public Square," a creek, and a building labelled "Saw Mill." Plat 2 shows land located near the intersection of West Bay Street and a body of water labelled "Mill Pond." Plat 3 shows land located near the Ashley River channel and a road labelled "Causeway Leading to Rice Mill."
Plat of 19 acres in St. Andrew’s Parish. A corn field is noted as is a public road along with the neighboring property owners. Little other detail. Names associated with this plat are James C. Perry, Cook, Sault, Benjamin, F.R.N. [?] Smith, Dinzhals [?], S. Charles, and Cattell.
Plat of 288 acres of land situated on Wadmalaw Island. Names associated with this plat are William Weston, Jonathan Runnel, James Clarks, Benjamin Allston [?], and Henry Treads. Notable geographic locations include Wadmalaw River, Wadmalaw Island, Bain Bluff, and Charleston District.
Nearly daily journal of travel through Nice, Monaco, Genoa, Leghorn, Rome (where she visited Harriet Hosmer and other sculptors' studios), Pompeii and Herculaneum, Florence, Mantua, Milan, Venice, Trieste (glimpsing Emperor Franz Joseph III), Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin and Paris, where the family stayed. Just after the family left Italy, the second war for Italian independence broke out, and she mentions Austrian troop movements and her sympathies for the Italian side. In Paris, she mentions Ransom Calhoun & Mr. Preston, Mr. Ogier, Dr. Horlbeck & family, "Miss Lewis, the poetess," Boston Editor Bigelow, and Senator Charles Sumner, with an allusion to his caning by Preston Brooks; with visit to a synagogue. Frequent references to beggars, family members, and detailed descriptions of artwork seen and admired. Diary begins very soon after the death of her brother, David Henry Mordecai, and she often references her sadness over the loss.
A fragment of a plantation journal listing enslaved persons at Murry Hill Plantation. The pages include a list of enslaved men, women and children, notes on clothes for enslaved persons and births and deaths.
The Robert F.W. Allston Plantation Memo Book, 1859, is a Miller's Planters and Merchants Almanac repurposed as a personal account book for Robert Allston. The book records the names of the enslaved men, women and children on Chicora Wood and Nightingale Hall Plantations as well as their births, deaths and whether they were hired out by other South Carolina plantation owners. Other entries include information on crops, payments and the smoking of bacon.
A letter from H. Tilman to his father Alfred Wardlaw discussing slaves refered to as "negroes." Also makes the notation of the hire of a new overseer named "W.B. Jones" and cholera affecting the cattle.
A letter from H. Tilman to his father Alfred Wardlaw discussing slaves refered to as "negroes." Also makes notations regarding hog killing and cotton picking.
Letter from William Finley Barnwell at South Carolina College to mother, Catherine Osborn Barnwell, thanking her for a box of food. Barnwell adds that a recently injured eye might prevent him from doing well on his upcoming examinations. ca. 1859.
Robert Woodward Barnwell writes to mother, Catherine Osborn Barnwell, about a washing machine he has purchased for her and includes a recipe for soap. He also informs her of a calf he is sending via his servant "Aleck" and tells her to "let the negroes know that if it is missing, I will have every one on the plantation punished." 1859.
Hand-colored engraving depicting peoples of Africa, including a Jewish girl from Algiers and a Jewish woman from Morocco. Engraving by Pierre after a drawing by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux. Printed Paris: Laurent imp. Published Paris: Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger.
This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside shows a sale of 99 slaves being sold "under decree in equity" by the Charleston Master in Equity, James W. Gray, resulting from the court case Sanders vs. Sanders, et al. The auction is advertised as taking place on Tuesday, January 11th 1859 at 12 noon at the courthouse. The broadside lists the name and age of each enslaved person, except for those simply listed as an infant. The advertisement also has the term "Town Negroes" next to names of a group of individuals.
Black-and-white lithograph of the exterior of the synagogue in Kippenheim printed on a contract for purchasing synagogue seats, dating from the first decade of the synagogue in the 1850s. Lithograph by E. Kaufman.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Synagogue de Nazareth, located on the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, in Paris during the marriage of Gustave de Rothschild to Cécile Anspach. Published in the February 19, 1859, edition of Le Monde illustré.
This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 47 slaves from Christ Church Parish held at Ryan's Mart on Chalmers Street on January 21st, 1859 by P.J. Porcher and Baya. The broadside lists the names, ages, and, for some, previous experiences or health conditions of the slaves for sale. It also describes that the slaves are accustomed to the cultivation of long cotton and provisions.
This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction held by the firm Bennett and Rhett on January 21st, 1859 at the slave mart on Chalmers Street. The broadside gives the name and age for each person listed, except for those listed simply as child. Under qualifications, some are listed as being either a "prime field hand" or "sound". Some names are crossed out, and the listing of names is renumbered by hand. The ad also states that the slaves for sale are experienced in rice cultivation.
This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a sale by the Shingler brothers of 235 enslaved people, part of the estate of General James Gadsden, at 7 Broad Street on November 1, 1859. The broadside lists the name and age of each slave, and, in some instances, lists skills or health issues of individual slaves.
Black-and-white lithographed caricature depicting stockjobbers hoping to catch inside news after the first signs of a war in Italy appear in the newspaper. Lithograph by Destouches after a caricature by Honoré Daumier. Plate 10 of the series Actualités, published in the February 19, 1859, edition of Le Charivari.
In French, the text reads :
--Ne craignez rien ......, nous n'aurons pas la guerre ! ....
--Quelles preuves pouvez vous me donner?....
--Comment des preuves.... j'en ai mille.... tenez, mon cher.... allez place de la concorde...., dirigez vous du côté du quai et vous verrez qu'on n'arme seulement pas la frégate-école!.... In English, the text reads :
--Don't' you worry, there will be no war!
--What proof do you have for that?
--What do you mean proof.... there are thousands... for example... you go down to Place de la Concorde... in direction of the Quai and you will note that not even the frigate-school has been called to arms!
Black-and-white lithograph of the exterior of the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest. Frontispiece from Ueber die Juden und ihre tausendjährigen Leiden by S. v. Vereby.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the Synagoge Kohlhöfen (Kohlhöfen Synagogue) in Hamburg. Published in the September 24, 1859, edition of the Illustrirte Zeitung.
Hand-colored offset print reproduction of the exterior of the Synagoge Kohlhöfen (Kohlhöfen Synagogue) in Hamburg. Published in the September 24, 1859, edition of the Illustrirte Zeitung.
The Richmond Plantation Journal, 1859-1860 was kept by Anthony Weston, Benjamin Huger's overseer. Entries concern activities on the rice plantation primarily related to rice cultivation (plowing, manuring, cleaning ditches, threshing and winnowing.) Also mentioned are corn, peas, potatoes, livestocks, the weather and lists of goods and prices. The journal also includes entries relating to slave allowances as well as violence towards slaves including flogging and imprisonment. The names of the slaves are listed as: Affee, Anthony, Benego, Big Tony, Billy/Runaway Billy, Bina, Carpenter Sam, Cloe, Cornelia, Cyrus, Delia, Dina, Ellick, Ellie, Grace, Handy, Hector, Jack, Jak, John, Jose, Juda, Juiet, Margaret, Martha, Morris, Moses, Peggy, Peter, Pino, Racheal, Rock, Sally, Sarah, Simon, Thomas, Toby and William.
Color lithograph of the exterior of the Gothenburg Synagogue in Göteborg. Lithograph by Carl Gustaf Berger. From Göteborg med dess omgifningar framställdt i taflor (Gothenburg and its environs in pictures), published Göteborg: Förlag af Meyer & Köster Lithografisk Atelier.
Black-and-white lithograph of the exterior of the Gothenburg Synagogue in Göteborg. From Göteborg (med dess omgifning) framstäldt i taflor, published Göteborg: C. Petersens Lith. Inr.
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