A report from the mayor, city council, and various governmental departments of Charleston, South Carolina for the year 1905. The Year Book opens with an address from city mayor, R. Goodwyn Rhett, followed by reports from various departments.
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 1905-June 1906.
Pencil sketches and many watercolors by Charleston-born architect William Martin Aiken. Images from Mexico, Italy, Corfu, Switzerland and France. Includes depictions of churches and grand houses (interior and exterior), bridges and towers.
Pencil sketches by Charleston-born architect William Martin Aiken. Mainly interior architectural features from churches, and some sketches of sailing ships. France, England.
A document signed by Julian H. Jahnz and Anton W. Jager, agreeing to bond themselves in support of the established perpetual care fund for Bethany Cemetery.
A document signed by William F. Ostendorff and Ernst C. Hesse, agreeing to bond themselves in support of the established perpetual care fund for Bethany Cemetery.
A letter to Captain C.G. Ducker, President of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church, from the attorney John F. Ficken. The letter was meant to accompany the delivery of three bonds.
Postcard with a reproduction of a painting of the Semper-Synagoge (Semper Synagogue), also known as the Dresdner Synagoge (Dresden Synagogue) or Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue).
Black-and-white photographic postcard with a list of names and photographs of the victims of the Zhytomyr pogrom, April 23-26, 1905. Included is Nikolai Ivanovich Blinov, a Christian student who died defending the Jewish community.
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a photographic image of Isaac Dave Rubin and family (Rubin is pictured with his wife, Sarah, son Moe, daughter Rachel and three other individuals, possibly Rubin's siblings). The photograph was taken in front of a Charleston home. A greeting is printed in Hebrew on the left edge of the postcard : "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year / May there be peace within your walls and serenity within your house / Peace, peace to him who is far and him who is near."