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.
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).
Meeting minutes volume kept by the Town of Sullivan Island City Council. This volume covers topics such as local elections, new ordinances regarding children and animals, and various financial and infrastructural reports.
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).
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"
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, 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, 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.
Pencil on paper, 27.5cm x 21cm. Drawings and descriptions of an iron balcony and interior face of paneled shutters of the Ralph Izard house on Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina.
Pencil on paper, 25.5cm x 19cm. Drawing and descriptions of a spiral twist in stone on the main portal recess at the Cathe?drale Sainte-Ce?cile d'Albi in France.
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, 43cm x 28.5cm. Drawings, measurements, and architectural details of Il Chiostro, Abbazia di San Gregorio, Canal Grande, in Venice, Italy.
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, 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, 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, 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".
