A report from the mayor, city council and various governmental departments of Charleston, South Carolina, for the year 1899. The Year Book opens with an address from Mayor Smyth followed by reports from various departments.
Photographs taken by Sabina Elliott Wells in 1898-1899. Wells was a Charleston artist and designer; she was also a Newcomb potter. Photographs include scenes in Charleston and the Lowcountry, in northwest South Carolina (Table Rock and vicinity), and in western North Carolina (Flat Rock and vicinity). Scans were derived from negatives donated to Historic Charleston Foundation. (Note: Wells's diaries from 1898-1899 that document some of her travels, including sites represented in these photographs, are at the South Carolina Historical Society, "Sabina E. Wells papers, 1886-1942.")
The College of Charleston Magazine is a monthly publication released by the College of Charleston's Chrestomathic Society during the academic year. This volume is comprised of the bound together publications from the months of October 1899-June 1900.
This album is comprised of photographs of Sanford family members, including John Sanford, his parents, Stephen and Sarah Jane Cochran Sanford, his wife, Ethel Sanford, and their children, Stephen Sanford, Sarah Jane Sanford, and Gertrude Sanford.
Three bone buttons acquired from the bodies of John Brown's raiders. The bodies were reinterred at the John Brown Farm in North Elba, New York in 1899. Mounted and framed with a caricature of John Brown.
Petition of Mrs. H. A. Mullins to the St. Andrew's Society requesting that her annuity be increased and that she receive the same charity as widows of former member of the society.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jewish merchants from Poland. From a drawing by Eugène Joseph Viollat. From Ridpath's universal history, Volume 5, by John Clark Ridpath.
