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.
1920-1929, 1890-1899, 1900-1909, 1880-1889, 1870-1879, and 1910-1919
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This German-language ledger book contains the records of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and deaths within the community of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church from 1870 to 1923. The book is divided into four sections. The first sections contains baptismal records, the second confirmation records, the third marriage records, and the fourth death records.
The meeting minutes of the City of Mullins City Council from 1913-1938. The contents include discussions of city planning and Public Works infrastructure including pavement, electrical, water, and sewage. Operations of the city government—including elections, business licenses, the establishment of city ordinances, taxation, legal action, and local police—are discussed as well.
Meeting minutes volume kept by the Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Board of Trustees, 1916-1928. The entries in this volume concern all discussions regarding synagogue business, finances, memberships. The minutes also discuss supporting troops during World War I, as well as correspondences and meetings with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and preparations for the 100th Anniversary of the Reform Judaism in America.
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).
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.
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).
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).
Guidebook to Charleston, containing a history of Charleston; descriptions of many points of interest; street guide; and map featuring ward boundaries and points of interest. Advertisements interspersed throughout. Published by Walker, Evans & Cogswell. 95 p. : ill., fold. map ; 20 cm.
Photograph with inscription, "Mr. Benjamin Cox (Principal) standing at podium addressing weekly Chapel meeting. Mrs. Cox seated at extreme right. Miss Clyde (teacher) seated at left of Mr. Cox. Student body, faculty, principal B.F. Cox at podium in Avery Auditorium"
1920-1929, 1890-1899, 1900-1909, 1880-1889, and 1910-1919
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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.).
Souvenir program for what appears to be a U.S. Navy event that occurred in Charleston during the Coolidge administration. Focuses on the U.S. Navy, with naval history and lists of ships and ship personnel, and historical information about the Charleston Navy Yard. Also provides Charleston history and information on various sites, including churches. Advertisements for local businesses, many of which are directed specifically to the Navy visitors, are interspersed throughout. [80] p., ill., 22 x 30 cm.
In this four-page typed speech C.C. Tseng read to the Carolina Art Association in Charleston, South Carolina, he writes about Chinese landscape painting and its differences from Western art.
Pencil on paper, 28cm x 22cm. Front contains various drawings, descriptions, and measurements of architectural details surrounding an interior window on stairs. Back includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of architectural details such as the cap of a pilaster.
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.
Pencil on paper, 18cm x 12.5cm. Drawing, descriptions, and measurements of the front door panel molding and outside window casing of the Chase House in Annapolis, Maryland.
Pencil on paper, 21cm x 27.5cm. Front depicts an architectural drawing, measurements, and descriptions of the kitchen building in the garden at 43 Chestnut Street, Salem, Massachusetts. Back includes various drawings and descriptions of architectural details.
Pencil on paper, 26.5cm x 21.5cm. The front includes drawings and descriptions of a white and gold empire ceiling in Ville Petraia, Castello, Italy. Back contains drawings and descriptions of various swags in relief.
Pencil on paper, 28cm x 22cm. Front contains drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details of the Sheppard House at 59 Smith Street. Back includes drawings, measurements, plan of a lower step, and descriptions of a doorway and staircase.
Pencil on paper, 31cm x 21cm. Front includes drawings and descriptions of various architectural details such as roofs, windows and columns from the Cathe?drale Saint-Etienne de Bourges in Bourges, France. Back contains an outdoor scene of an old farmhouse of stucco just outside of Siena, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 28.5cm x 22cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of architectural details. Back includes additional drawings and measurements of architectural details surrounding a door.
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.
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.
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.
Pencil on paper, 31cm x 21cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, descriptions, and author's notes on several mosaics in the Basilica di S. Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. Back contains similar information, and states "Motives from marble mosaic floor. From church of San Vitale, at Ravenna."
Pencil on paper, 28cm x 22cm. Front contains drawings, measurements, and descriptions of architectural details such as doors, including the soffit of an arch at 11 Montagu Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Back includes additional details and measurements.
Pencil on paper, 21.5cm x 27cm. Front contains drawings and descriptions of a floor mosaic in San Salvatore, Venice, Italy, as well as various monetary figures. Back includes a list of English phrases translated into Italian and additional figures.
Pencil on paper, 28cm x 22cm. Front contains drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details, including doors and steps, in the Shepard House at 59 Smith Street. Back includes additional drawings, measurements, and descriptions of architectural details in the Shepard House.
Pencil on paper, 28cm x 22cm. Front contains drawings, measurements, and descriptions of architectural details such as columns and doors. Back includes additional drawings of doors, paneling, and other architectural details.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front includes a drawing, details, and descriptions of a 17th century sheet iron gate on a stair landing in the Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy. Back contains drawings and descriptions of various architectural details from the Palazzo di Parte Guelfa in Florence, Italy.
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.
Pencil on paper, 35cm x 24cm. Front contains drawings, descriptions, and measurements of a large wrought iron grille in Duomo, Perugia. Back depicts an outdoor scene featuring a house on a hill with mountains in the background. It reads, "Near Perugia".
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front contains drawing of two horse drawn carriages in Pistoia, Italy. Back includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details from the atrium of the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi in Florence, Italy.
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.
Pencil on paper, 28.5cm x 22cm. Front contains various drawings, descriptions, and measurements of architectural details such as pilasters. Back includes a sketch of an unidentified building.
Pencil on paper, 27.5cm x 21cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details such as column caps. Back contains unidentified architectural drawings and measurements.
Pencil on paper, 28cm x 22cm. Front contains drawings, descriptions and measurements of various architectural details. Back includes additional drawings and measurements of architectural details.
Pencil on paper, 16cm x 10.5cm. Front includes drawings, descriptions, and measurements of molds from the small, paneled ante-room of the Chateau de Fontainebleau. Back contains a drawing and descriptions of details from the small, paneled ante-room of the Chateau de Fontainebleau.
Pencil on paper, 13.5cm x 21.5cm. Front contains drawings, descriptions, and measurements of various unidentified architectural details. Back includes various figures.
Pencil of paper, 21cm x 14cm. Front includes architectural drawings, descriptions, and measurements of various architectural details. Back includes additional architectural drawings and notes.
Pencil on paper, 14cm x 11cm. Front contains drawings and measurements of unidentified architectural details. Back includes a drawing of an unidentified architectural detail.
Pencil on paper, 27.5cm x 21.5cm. Contains drawings and measurements of a portion of the drawing room on the second story of the Horry House, on the corner of Meeting Street and Tradd Street in Charleston, South Carolina.
Pencil on paper, 27.5cm x 21.5cm. Drawings and descriptions of a garden fence and the gate to the rear garden of the Simmons-Edwards House at 12-14 Legare Street in Charleston, South Carolina.
Pencil on paper, 27.5cm x 21cm. Drawing and measurements of the mantel piece in the drawing room of the Colonel John Stuart House at 104-106 Tradd Street in Charleston, South Carolina.
Pencil on paper, 31cm x 21cm. Drawings and descriptions of a wood ceiling in Santa Dei Miracoli and a renaissance wall tomb in San Giovanni E Paolo in Venice, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of marble capitals from a nave at Santa Maria in Organo, Italy. Back includes various drawings, descriptions and measurements of architectural details of a refectory at San Marco in Florence, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front contains drawings, measurements, and descriptions of an iron screen from Sacristy, Santa Croce, Florence, Italy. Back includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of a stone doorway, Palazzo Di Parte Guelfa, Via di Capaccio, Florence, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front contains drawings of various architectural details from Verona Italy, including several renderings of iron balconies. Back includes additional drawings and descriptions of iron balconies in Verona, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front contains a drawing, measurements, and descriptions of an old stone and marble minor palazzo in Venice, Italy. Back includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of architectural details in Venice, Italy, including a stone balcony and a small window.
Pencil on paper, 35cm x 24cm. Front includes drawings and descriptions of architectural details such as window frames. Back contains drawings, descriptions, and measurements of floor mosaics in Capella Palatina, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details including columns and ornamental molding. Back contains drawings, measurements, and descriptions of additional details such as marble doorways from Verona, Italy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front contains a drawing, descriptions, and measurements of a small palazzo in Verona, Italy. Back includes drawings of various architectural details such as capitals and balconies in Verona, Italy, and a drawing of the entrance archway to a farmyard from an old farm near Siena in Tuscany, Italy.
