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.
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.
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.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the New Synagogue in Berlin. From a wood engraving by R. Stieler after an original sketch by F. Wagner. Published in Das Buch für Alle.
Color offset print reproduction of the exterior of the New Synagogue in Berlin. From a wood engraving by R. Stieler after an original sketch by F. Wagner. Published in Das Buch für Alle.
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 of the interior of Santa María la Blanca in Toledo. Published in the May 1878 edition of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the Yom Kippur ritual of malkot (lashes). Published in the May 1878 edition of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
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.
Caricature of Jews selling old clothes on Chatham Street in New York. From Pictures of New York life & character, published New York: G.W. Averell & Co.
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 Galician peasants and Jews. From Nouvelle géographie universelle : la terre et les hommes by Élisée Reclus.
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.]