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.
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.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a watercolor by Princesse Mathilde Bonaparte of a Jewish woman from Algiers. Published in the June 30, 1866, edition of L'Univers illustré.
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.
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.
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.
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.