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 106 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with ten plats. Plat 1 features a lot and its buildings located near the intersection of King Street and Tradd Street. Plat 2 features a lot and buildings located between Church Street and Water Street, near where the latter intersects with East Bay Street. Plat 3 shows lots located near the intersection of King Street and Grove Street. Plat 4 features a plat and building located on Church Street. Plat 5 features a lot located on the intersection of East Bay Street and Elliott Street. Plat 6 shows a lot located between two streets leading to wharves. Plat 7 shows lots, wharves, and docks located near the intersection of Market Street and East Bay Street. Plat 8 features a wharf and lot located near the intersection of Legare Street and South Bay Street. Plat 9 shows lots located on and near the intersection of Broad Street and East Bay Street. Plat 10 shows lots and some structures located on East Bay Street.
Page 27 of the City Engineer's Plat Book with five plats. Plat 1 shows lots located on Broad Street, between the intersections with East Bay Street and State Street. Plat 2 shows lots on Chapel Street. Plat 3 shows lots near Savage Street and Tradd Street. Plat 4 shows lots on Savage Street. Plat 5 shows lots near the intersection of Broad Street and East Bay Street.
Hand-colored wood engraving of a hunchbacked Jewish man, Jaapje Blok, who hires himself out as a lectern at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. Wood engraving by Henricus Adrianus (Henri) Bogaerts. Published in De katholieke illustratie : zondags-lektuur voor het katholieke Nederlandsche volk.
Caption: 'Southern scenes.--fight for garbage in the streets of Charleston between the scavengers (turkey-buzzards) and the Negroes.' [full date December 11, 1869.]
Joseph Walker Barnwell, Gottingen, Germany, writes to brother, Allard Belin Barnwell. Barnwell talks of how being in Europe has made him more of an "American" rather than a "Southerner" and discusses weekly social activities with his compatriots. He mentions the near universal editorial contempt for a recent magazine article by Harriet Beecher Stowe concerning Lord Byron and hopes a similar "justice" will one day fall on "Uncle Tom's Cabin." He also derides the antics of anti-Catholic preacher, John Cumming, and describes the curious wedding custom of smashing crockery and dinnerware at the door of the bride-to-be.
Hand-colored engraved map of Palestine. From Colton’s General atlas : containing one hundred and eighty steel plate maps and plans, on one hundred and nineteen imperial folio sheets / drawn by G. Woolworth Colton ; letter-press descriptions, geographical, statistical, and historical, by Richard Swainson Fisher, published New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton.
