Typescript memoir entitled, "A Summary of the Principal Events of My Life," written by Philip Phillips, June 1870. Phillips' memoir includes early biographical information, his education, the beginnings and development of his career as a lawyer and eventually as a congressman, the Tariff Acts of 1828, the Missouri Compromise, the beginnings of the Civil War, and his wife's imprisonment in Washington D.C. and on Ship Island. The memoir also relates various experiences had by the Phillips family throughout the Civil War.
Postcard with a reproduction of a painted portrait by Franz Rederer of Hebert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine. The original oil painting is held at the National Portrait Gallery.
Page of 50 shekel banknotes with portraits of David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel, in front of the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute in Sde Boker.
Color photographic postcard of Arthur Balfour's reception at the Tel Aviv Municipality during his 1925 visit to Palestine. From left to right: Arthur Balfour, Meir Dizengoff, Chaim Weizmann.
Color photographic postcard of Arthur Balfour's reception at the Zionist Club in Tel Aviv during his 1925 visit to Palestine. Meir Dizengoff stands to his left.
Color photographic postcard of Arthur Balfour's reception at the electrical power station in Tel Aviv during his 1925 visit to Palestine. Balfour (fourth from right); to his right, Pinhas Rutenberg. Meir Dizengoff stands second from right.
Color photographic postcard of Arthur Balfour in the courtyard of the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv during his 1925 visit to Palestine. Nahum Sokolow is to his left; Meir Dizengoff and Chaim Weizmann are behind him.
Color photographic postcard of Arthur Balfour's reception at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Tel Aviv during his 1925 visit to Palestine. With Chaim Weizmann (third from right), Meir Dizengoff (far right), and Nahum Sokolow (second from left).
Color photographic postcard of Arthur Balfour at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv during his 1925 visit to Palestine. Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow are to his left; Meir Dizengoff is behind him.
Black-and-white photograph postcard of Menachem Begin, leader of the Zionist paramilitary organization Irgun and later Minister of Defense and Prime Minister of Israel.
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