Pencil sketches and occassional watercolors by Charleston-born architect William Martin Aiken. The sketches are primarily buildings and architectural elements from Charleston, Boston, Rhode Island, France, England, Switzerland.
Pencil sketches by Charleston-born architect William Martin Aiken. Primarily images of buildings and architectural elements in Boston, Charleston, Atlanta, Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Montreal, and Quebec City.
A newspaper sketch of a Mississippi tow boat on a river. There is a steamboat behind the tow boat. On the banks of the river is a man on a covered wooden boat.
Main caption: 'American industries.--Silk culture in Alabama--an enterprise founded and carried on by Colored people at Huntsville.--from a sketch by A. Berghaus.' Caption left: 'Method of feeding the silkworms with mulberry leaves.' Caption right: 'Colored children carding the raw material.' [full date August 17, 1878.]
Caption: 'Main room of the Industrial Academy, in which the various processes for the production of raw silk are conducted.' [full date August 17, 1878.]
In this astronomical chart (front and back) Lewis R. Gibbes provides the mathematical calculations and diagram for a total eclipse of the sun in relation to time; the parallel of declination and Charleston, S.C.; the Equator; Earth's moon and the North Pole. Gibbes' calculations continue onto the back of the chart.
In this astronomical chart (front and back) on the front of the page Gibbes provides a diagram and the elements for constructing the diagram. Also included are his calculations of the partial lunar eclipse including the hourly motion, declination, hourly motion in declination, horizontal parallax, and semidiameter. Gibbes also provides the results of the eclipse (phases of the eclipse: beginning, middle, end and duration). On the back of the page Gibbes provides the calculations from the quantities given on the front page to calculate logarithms, the auxiliary quantities, and relative orbit described by the moon in one hour of time.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of Clarissa Bischoffsheim, wife of financier Henri Louis Bischoffsheim. Engraving by Goupil & Cie after a painted portrait by John Everett Millais. From The Chefs-D'Oeuvre d'Art of the International Exhibition, 1878, published by Gebbie & Barrie.
Black-and-white etched portrait of Clarissa Bischoffsheim, wife of financier Henri Louis Bischoffsheim. Etching by Charles Albert Waltner after a painted portrait by John Everett Millais. Published in L'Art.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting the ceremony of tashlikh. After a painting by Wilhelm August Stryowski. Published in Über Land und Meer, Jahrgang 20, Band 40, Heft 44.
Caricature by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler published in the December 25, 1878, edition of Puck. The associated article reads : "It is to be regretted that Mr. Hilton is as unsuccessful as a dry-goods man and a hotel keeper as he notoriously was as a jurist. But the fact remains. He took it upon himself to insult a portion of our people, whose noses had more of the curvilinear from of beauty than his own pug, and he rode his high hobby-horse of purse-proud self-sufficiency until he woke up one day to find that the dry-goods business was waning—growing small by degrees and beautifully less. Then Mr. Hilton arouses himself. He turns his great mind from thoughts of the wandering bones of Stewart; he brings the power of his gigantic brain to bear upon the great question. ‘How shall I revive trade?’ He remembers that he had insulted the Jews. Aha! we’ll conciliate them. So out of the coffers that A. T. Stewart filled he gropes among the millions, and orders the trustees of a few Hebrew charities to bend the pregnant hinges of their knees at his door, and receive a few hundred dollars. But in this country the Jew is not ostracized. He stands equal before the law and before society with all his fellow-citizens, of whatever creed or nationality. And the Jew has stood up like a Man and refused to condone the gross and uncalled-for insults of this hap-hazard millionaire, merely because he flings the offer of a thousand dollars in their faces. All honor to the Jews for their manly stand in this instance. Trampled upon, scourged, banished as they have been for centuries under the ban of religious persecution, at last they find a land in which they have rights equal with all their fellow-countrymen. They have in this instance asserted their rights, and have dared to maintain their self-respect. It is the verdict of all thinking men that in everything he has done, from the Grand Union Hotel, and the Women’s Home, down to Stewart’s grave, Hilton has been a magnificent failure—and the Jews have won a grand success."
Black-and-white engraving depicting Moses descending from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. Engraving by John C. McRae after an illustration by Gustave Doré. From The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments…, published Philadelphia: A.J. Holman & Co.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the interior of the Central Synagogue on Great Portland Street in London. From Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places, Volume 4, by Walter Thornbury.
Black-and-white wood engraving of a Jewish money changer from Alexandria. Engraving after an illustration by Leopold Carl Müller. From Egypt : descriptive, historical, and picturesque, Volume 1, by Georg Ebers, published London: Cassell & Company.
