Page 1 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with four plats. Plat 1 shows the intersection of East Bay Street and Market Street, and labels reading "New Custom Ho.," "Old Flash," "Scale House," and "Market." Plat 2 shows a stretch of East Bay Street from the intersection with Guignard Street to Pritchard Street, including the bridge crossing over Canal Street. Plat 3 shows the intersection of Tradd Street and Greenhill Street. Plat 4 features Beaufain Street's intersections with St. Phillip Street and Archdale Street, and features a plot of land labelled "Normal School Yard."
This document is a labor agreement between J. W. Sprague and freedmen and signed by other numerous individuals. The reverse side of the document includes the notation "Agreement Hands."
Page 53 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with five plats. Plat 1 shows shoals and marshlands located near the Ashley River Channel, Gibbes Street, and South Bay Street. Plat 2 features a lot and its buildings at the intersection of Broad Street and New Street. Plat 3 shows a lots and buildings located on Tradd Street. Plat 4 features lots and buildings located near the intersection of Broad Street and Tradd Street, including some stretches of marshland. Plat 5 shows lots located near Broad Street's and Tradd Street's intersections with New Street and Legare Street.
Page 17 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with five plats. Plat 1 shows plots of land located on Logan Street. Plat 2 shows land on East Bay Street. Plat 3 shows a plot of land on the corner of East Bay Street and Gibbes Street. Plat 4 shows the "Old Exchange" located at the intersection of East Bay Street and Broad Street. Plat 5 shows lots located on East Bay Street between the intersections with Cumberland Street and Market Street, including a larger lot labelled "New Custom House Lot."
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.
A ten-set collection containing 37 items of measured drawings, ink sketches, pencil drawings and watercolors representing several generations of the Middleton family of South Carolina from 1803-1867. Sets 1-6 contain measured architectural drawings attributed to John Izard Middleton with dates and watermarks ranging from 1808-1813. Five country houses and one greenhouse are depicted in these 25 drawings. All buildings are in the Adamesque style and none of the designs is known to have been executed. Sets 1-3 are initialed "J.I.M" and are dated 1811 and 1813. Set 4 is neither initialed nor dated, but has the same format (ink with watercolor) and is on the same paper as some of the drawings in sets 1-3 with watermarks 1808-1809. Sets 5-6 are in pencil on paper by different manufacturers, though some are also watermarked 1809. All 6 sets appear to be by the same architect and to have notations in the same handwriting. Set 7 contains an elevation for flanking wings by "Thos. Walker Feby. 4th 1809." Set 8 consists of 4 pencil sketches of a design to enlarge Middleton Place. Set 9 contains miscellaneous drawings. Set 10 contains maps "drawn by Henry Middleton Jun[io]r. 1867."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Talmudist David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo giving a sermon in the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam on July 22, 1866. After an oil painting by Jacob-Emile-Edouard Brandon. Published in the August 3, 1867, edition of Le Monde illustré.
The Allston-Pringle Plantation Account Book is a bound volume recorded by Adele Petigru Allston and later her daughter, Elizabeth Waities Allston Pringle, for White House, Chicora Wood, and Greenfield Plantation. The book records the financial accounts for the male and female laborers on the properties and documents their expenses and wages in 1867. The end pages of the book, appearing upside down, were used by Elizabeth W.A. Pringle to record daily entries of the tasks performed by laborers in 1913-1914. Also found inside the volume is a loose sheet of paper listing Adele P. Allston's expenses in 1873.
Under pressure from bondholders, the Charleston and
Savannah Railroad reorganized in 1867 as the Savannah and Charleston Railroad. This act officially recognizes the authority of the new railroad company. Courier Job Press, Charleston, S.C. 14p.
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.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the New Synagogue in Berlin. From an original drawing by Gottlob Theuerkauf. Published in the January 5, 1867, issue of the Illustrirte Zeitung.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the New Synagogue in Berlin. Published in the February 2, 1867, edition of L'Univers illustré.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Old New Synagogue in Prague. Published in the February 16, 1867, edition of Le Monde illustré.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Borough New Synagogue at Walworth Road in London. Published in the May 4, 1867, edition of the Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white etching of Talmudist David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo giving a sermon in the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam on July 22, 1866. Etching after an oil painting by Jacob-Emile-Edouard Brandon. Printed Paris: Imp. A. Salmon. Published in the July 1867 edition of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts.
Black-and-white lithographed portrait of Chief Rabbi Maier Zipser (1815-1869). Published in Beth-el : Ehrentempel verdienter ungarischer Israeliten by Ignaz Reich.
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 installation of Lazare Isidor as Chief Rabbi.
Black-and-white etching of Jewish peasants and miners in Poland. Etching by August von Heyden. Printed by Auguste Delâtre. Published Paris: A. Cadart & F. Chevalier.
Sheet music cover for Progress March by P. Martens, with a lithograph by Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. of the exterior of the Plum Street Temple, now the Isaac M. Wise Temple, home of K.K. B'nai Yeshurun. Published Cincinnati : J.J. Dobmeyer.