Compilation of original deeds, titles, and other documents related to the transfer, sale, and ownership of the double tenement at 72-74 Tradd Street, known as the Fotheringham-McNeil Tenements. Documents span from 1765 to 1961, likely representing the entire history of the ownership of the double tenement throughout that time period. Also includes blueprints and photographs. (NOTE: Fotheringham has also been spelled Fotheringham.)
Page 156 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with five plats. Plat 1 shows lots and structures located on the east side of Rutledge Street. Plat 2 features a lot located on the intersection of Coming Street and Warren Street. Plat 3 shows lots and structures located on Morris Street. Plat 4 shows lots and structures located on King Street. Plat 4 shows lots and structures on and near the intersection of Calhoun Street and Lucas Street.
Page 109 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with six plats. Plat 1 shows lots located near the intersection of Exchange Street and Champney Street. Plat 2 shows lots and some buildings located on Church Street. Plat 3 shows lots located along Elliott Street, between East Bay and Church Street. Plat 4 shows lots and structures located near the corner of Church Street and Atlantic Street. Plat 5 shows lots and structures located near the corner of Church Street and Atlantic Street. Plat 6 shows lots and structures located near the intersection of East Bay Street and Guignard Street.
Page 59 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with two plats. Plat 1 shows lots on East Bay Street, between Pritchard Street and Rose Lane. Plat 2 shows a lot and buildings belonging to the Charleston Gas Light Company, located on Church Street.
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.
A set of annual reports of the the Fire Department from 1859-1872. Reports missing for years 1862-1865. The annual reports open with a statement from the Fire Chief and include multiple lists of department expenses, financial cost of fires, the cause of the fires, and locations of city property pertaining to the fire department.
Page 2 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with five plats. Plat 1 shows the intersections of Guignard Street with East Bay Street and "Raper's Alley," and features a building labelled "Old Mansion Ruins." Plat 2 shows the intersection of East Bay Street and Market Street near the "Charleston Harbour on the Cooper River," and features plans to expand Market Street. Plat 3 features a stretch of land from the end of Rose Alley to the Cooper River, labelled as "Union Warf No. 1." Plat 4 features the same stretch of land as Plat 2 with slightly more land to the north. Plat 5 features the intersections of Tradd Street with Legare Street and Friend Street.
On the back of a Suffolk County Deputy Sheriffs' Office Court House document, a description of news was given that relate to the panic after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865.
Volume Two in the Cote Bas and Mepkin Plantations Collection is a Miller's Interleaved Almanac for 1886 repurposed as a journal by Peter Gourdin. Entries pertain to rice planting, livestock and social activities. Other information includes newspaper clippings on various topics such as General Order No. 1, January 1, 1866, issued by Federal authorities to govern the employment of freedmen as plantation laborers as well as other rights and liberties given to freedmen.
Page 8 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with two plats. Plat 1 shows plots near "Village Hampstead Public Square" and shows numerous streets including King Street, Columbus Street, and Meeting Street. Plat 2 shows lots near the intersection of Radcliffe Street and King Street, including a lot labelled "Estate of McIntosh."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the former location of Congregation Beth Israel on Crown Street in Philadelphia. From The stranger's guide in Philadelphia, published Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the New Synagogue in Berlin. Published in the September 22, 1866, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the former 34th Street location of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in New York. Published in the June 16, 1866, edition of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
Hand-colored offset print reproduction of the exterior of the Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue) in Stuttgart. From Württemberg : nach seiner Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in Land und Leuten by Theodor Griesinger.
Color offset print reproduction of the interior of the New Synagogue in Berlin. Published in the September 22, 1866, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a watercolor by Princesse Mathilde Bonaparte of a Jewish woman from Algiers. Published in the June 2, 1866, edition of L'Illustration, journal universel.
