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1. Charleston Scenes, Page 1 (front): Charleston Harbor / Ashley River Bridge

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Four photographs on the page. Top left: Tugboat and other ships in a floating dry dock in the Charleston Harbor (possibly Charleston Shipbuilding). Top right: View of the Charleston waterfront from the Ashley River. Some of the landmark buildings visible in the background include St. Matthew's Church, Francis Marion Hotel, St. John's Lutheran Church, Unitarian Church, St. Philip's Church, People's Building, St. Michael's Church, and West Point Rice Mill. Bottom left: View of the Charleston waterfront from the Cooper River. Some of the landmark buildings visible in the background include Fort Sumter Hotel, St. Michael's Church, St. Philip's Church, U.S. Customhouse, and several wharves. Bottom right: Two cars on the Ashley River Bridge, one heading east and one heading west. View of the Charleston waterfront in the background.

2. Renee Kolender's family on mother's side (Borenstain) late 1920s

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Photograph taken in Koszenica, Poland in the late 1920s. Among those pictured only Renee, her Aunt Tola and youngest uncle in second row survived the war. First row, left to right: Rose Borenstain-Fuchs (mother), Renee, Grandmother Borenstain, Yitzchak Fuchs (brother), Grandfather Borenstain, rest are cousins and Rose's sister (names not known). Second row, left to right: Moishe Chiel Fuchs (father), Tola Berenstain (maternal aunt), rest are cousins and uncles (names not known).

3. Renee Kolender's family on father's side (Fuchs) circa 1925

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Photograph taken in 1925 or 1926 in Koszenica, Poland. First row, left to right (seated): great uncle (grandmother's brother-Sokol), Grandmother Fuchs, Renee, Grandfather Fuchs, Moishe Chiel Fuchs (father). Second row, left to right (standing): Aaron Fuchs, Elieazer Fuchs, Charna Fuchs, unknown, unk., unk., Simcha Fuchs.

4. Charleston Scenes, Page 2 (back): Aerial Views of Charleston

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Four aerial views of Charleston looking across the peninsula. Top left: Looking northeast, possibly from St. Michael’s Church, showing Broad Street and the area to its north bounded by East Bay Street, and possibly Queen Street. Cars are parked along the street. Landmarks include the Confederate Home and its rear dormitory apartments, People's Building, Old Exchange Building, and the corner of Broad and Church Streets showing the Bank of South Carolina Building (50 Broad Street) before it was restored. A faint view of the U.S. Customhouse is at the far left. Top right: Looking southeast, possibly from the Francis Marion Hotel, with Meeting Street bisecting the view at a diagonal. Landmarks include the U.S. Customhouse, Charleston Hotel, People’s Building, and St. Philip’s Church. Bottom left: Looking south on King Street, possibly from the Francis Marion Hotel, showing King Street from approximately 360 King down to the bend near Market Street, and the view east of King Street. Vehicles can be seen on King Street. Landmarks include the Masonic Temple Building (270 King Street), the tower of the Peoples First National Bank Building (also known as the Hirsh Israel Building, 275 King Street), and the Hotel Calhoun (238-242 King Street). Bottom right: Looking southwest, possibly from St. Michael’s Church, toward James Island. Landmarks include the Fort Sumter House (1 King Street), Col. John Ashe House (32 South Battery), rear of First Scots Presbyterian Church (57 Meeting Street), Miles Brewton House (27 King Street), and the north elevation of the John E. Poyas House (69 Meeting Street).

5. Charleston Scenes, Page 3 (front): Aerial views of Charleston

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Four aerial views of Charleston looking across the peninsula. Top left: Looking northeast, possibly from City Hall. Landmarks include the rear dormitory apartments of the Confederate Home, St. Philip's Church, and the U.S. Customhouse. Top right: Looking north on Meeting Street, possibly from St. Michael’s Church, and showing the view west of Meeting Street. Vehicles, including a trolley car, can be seen on the street. Landmarks include the Timrod Hotel, Mills House Hotel, Fireproof Building, Circular Church, and Francis Marion Hotel (in the distance). Bottom left: Looking east on Calhoun Street, possibly from the Francis Marion Hotel, and showing the view east and west of Calhoun Street. Vehicles can be seen on the street. Landmarks include the Calhoun Monument in Marion Square, Citadel Square Baptist Church, and Emanuel A.M.E. Church. Bottom right: Looking north possibly from St. Michael’s Church. Landmarks include St. John's Lutheran Church, Unitarian Church, Grace Episcopal Church, and the Charleston Orphan House (in the distance at right).

7. Robert Turner with a Friend

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Photograph of (Avery student?) Robert Turner with an unidentified woman sitting outside of a wooden building.

10. Anna Alston's Photograph Album

Date:
1920-1929, 1890-1899, 1900-1909, 1880-1889, and 1910-1919
Description:
A photograph album maintained by Anna E. Alston containing 72 photographs, mostly of African American men, women, and children as well as occasional white subjects. Photographs were taken in Columbia (S.C.), Charleston (S.C.), Savannah (Ga.), Philadelphia (Pa.), Ann Arbor (Mi.), Providence (R.I.), Boston (Ma.), Montreal, and Jacksonville (Fl.).

20. Architectural Details and Buildings Series of One Hundred Twenty Five Drawings and Sketches

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Pencil on paper, 35cm x 24.5cm. Front includes drawings and descriptions of architectural details including a Byzantine capital and ornamental molding form the Cloisters of Mondreale Cathedral in Palermo, Italy. Back contains additional drawings and descriptions of various architectural details including column caps, iron fences, ceiling structures, and details of a courtyard in Tunis, Tunisia.

44. Architectural Details and Buildings Series of One Hundred Twenty Five Drawings and Sketches

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Pencil on paper, 31cm x 21cm. Front includes drawings and descriptions of various architectural details including campaniles and reliefs including a band of ornamental grape vines at the Cloister of Saint-Trophine and a wooden processional in Arles, France. Back contains drawings and descriptions of various architectural details including stone brackets and stone ribs in a groined ceiling in Bargello, Florence, Italy.

45. Architectural Details and Buildings Series of One Hundred Twenty Five Drawings and Sketches

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details in the Palazzo Guadagni from Pistoia, Italy, including a basement floor, stone steps, and a brick chimney. Back contains drawings, descriptions, and measurements of the iron details from a fence around the "Arte Delle Lana" in Florence, Italy.

46. Architectural Details and Buildings Series of One Hundred Twenty Five Drawings and Sketches

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Pencil on paper, 31cm x 21cm. Front includes drawings, descriptions, and measurements of motives from the marble mosaic floor of the Santa Maria Assunta cathedral nave in Torcello, Italy. Back contains additional drawings, descriptions, and measurements of the mosaic floor of the Santa Maria Assunta cathedral nave, as well as a sketch of the exterior view of an unidentified building.

53. Architectural Details and Buildings Series of One Hundred Twenty Five Drawings and Sketches

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front contains drawings and descriptions of various architectural details including a dome over the alter in San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy, and a mosaic and pilaster capital in San Miniato al Monte in Florence, Italy. Back includes drawings and descriptions of various architectural details such as a mosaic in San Miniato al Monte, Italy, and a transom fan light in Florence, Italy.

56. Architectural Details and Buildings Series of One Hundred Twenty Five Drawings and Sketches

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Pencil on paper, 35cm x 24cm. Front contains drawings, measurements, and details from a large iron grille in the Duomo, Perugia. Back contains additional drawings, descriptions, and measurements of architectural details including renaissance stone windows in the Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi and a wrought iron grille on the Via Vannucci in Perugia, Italy.

80. Architectural Details and Buildings Series of One Hundred Twenty Five Drawings and Sketches

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details of a fence. Back contains drawings, measurements, and descriptions of details, stone ornaments, and decorative carvings on the arch piers of the Basilica di Santa Maria dell'Umilta? in Pistoia, Italy and other decorative carvings in Florence, Italy.

81. Architectural Details and Buildings Series of One Hundred Twenty Five Drawings and Sketches

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details including a grilled window, column caps, and capitals in the Museo di San Marco in Florence, Italy and windows on a farmhouse in Fiesole, Italy. Back contains drawings and descriptions of a diaper pattern in fresco from a 14th or 15th century room now in a museum in Florence, Italy.

82. Architectural Details and Buildings Series of One Hundred Twenty Five Drawings and Sketches

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front contains drawings and descriptions of various architectural details from Florence, Italy, including a column capital in the cloister of Santissima Annunziata. Back includes drawings, descriptions, and measurements of the various architectural details of a wrought iron gate near Orsanmichele, Italy.

83. Architectural Details and Buildings Series of One Hundred Twenty Five Drawings and Sketches

Date:
1920-1929
Description:
Pencil on paper, 42.5cm x 29cm. Front includes various drawings and descriptions of architectural details, including renderings of stone caps and lighting fixtures in San Domenico di Fiesole in Florence, Italy. Back contains architectural drawings, details of architectural vaults, and descriptions of an unidentified structure.