Photographs taken by Sabina Elliott Wells in 1898-1899. Wells was a Charleston artist and designer; she was also a Newcomb potter. Photographs include scenes in Charleston and the Lowcountry, in northwest South Carolina (Table Rock and vicinity), and in western North Carolina (Flat Rock and vicinity). Scans were derived from negatives donated to Historic Charleston Foundation. (Note: Wells's diaries from 1898-1899 that document some of her travels, including sites represented in these photographs, are at the South Carolina Historical Society, "Sabina E. Wells papers, 1886-1942.")
This album is comprised of photographs of Sanford family members, including John Sanford, his parents, Stephen and Sarah Jane Cochran Sanford, his wife, Ethel Sanford, and their children, Stephen Sanford, Sarah Jane Sanford, and Gertrude Sanford.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jews from Lithuania. From a drawing by Jean Antoine Valentin Foulquier. From Ridpath's universal history, Volume 5, by John Clark Ridpath.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus with his lawyer Edgar Demange during his 1899 trial for treason. Published in the September 2, 1899, edition of Harper's Weekly.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction with a portrait of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus during his 1899 trial for treason, from a sketch by Dr. Benoit Cimino. Published in the August 26, 1899, edition of Harper's Weekly.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jewish merchants from Poland. From a drawing by Eugène Joseph Viollat. From Ridpath's universal history, Volume 5, by John Clark Ridpath.
Caricature of Joseph Pulitzer published in the March 9, 1899, edition of Life. The associated article reads : "The editor of the World is known wherever bad English is read, and depraved minds everywhere hail him as a source of inspiration. He has probably done more harm to morals, and has fostered with more real persistency the rapid undergrowth of American degeneracy than any other living man. What he might say of Life is therefore of great interest : 'Don' speag to me of Life. Dot paper is der worst ever, ain't it? Ven de Sun un Churnal un udder file sheets gome out against me, I laf ha-ha! Vat does it madder? But Life! Dot paper goes to der very peoples dot I vould buy myselluf a place among, because of my monish, un day vill not have me, Hah! It has cut into my cirgulation also, un made me a laughing stock. It makes me sick. Speag to me not of Life.' Mr. Pulitzer's views, though not new, may well bear reiterating, showing, as they do, that no refined family of taste can afford not to take Life regularly. Contrast the shame-faced individual with some grains of self-respect left who stealthily endeavors to conceal a copy of the World from sight, and the proud bearing of the man who spreads his Life where all may see the company he keeps. Merely to be seen with a copy of Life is a good mind advertisement."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of French army officer Alfred Dreyfus during his 1899 trial for treason. Published in the supplement to Harper's Weekly, No. 2230, September 16, 1899.
Facsimile reproduction of a black-and-white etched portrait of physician Ephraim Bonus (also called Ephraim Bueno). Original etching by Rembrandt. Reproduction printed by the Reichsdruckerei Berlin.
Kate Drayton writes to Charles Drayton about young John "Johnny" Drayton and his illness. In this letter she also lists the birth and death dates of Katie Manigault's children.
Color lithograph of the house in Frankfurter Judengasse, the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt am Main, where wedding and other celebrations were held. From Frankfurt am Main, die freie Stadt, in Bauwerken und Straßenbildern by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, published Frankfurt am Main: Carl Jügels Verlag, 1894-1898.
Black-and-white wood engraving depicting the vestments of a Jewish high priest. From Aunt Charlotte's stories of Bible history for young disciples : designed for the 52 Sundays in the year containing, over 100 stories from the Holy Book, embracing instructive historical events from the Old and New Testaments by Charlotte M. Yonge.
Hand-colored lithograph with two scenes dated 1848 and 1898. 1848: "Emancipation of the Jews" depicts a Jewish man on his knees before an officer, offering a bag of money; in his other hand is a document labeled "Jewish emancipation." 1898: "The Christians as slaves of the Jews" depicts three Christians kneeling before a Jewish man in an officer's coat, as a Jewish man drives a Christian man with a whip in the background.
Black-and-white wood engraving of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. From an illustration by Isaac Snowman. Published in the June 4, 1898, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the synagogue located at 54 Pitt Street in New York. Originally built as a parochial school, the building later served Congregations Brith Sholem, Kochob Jacob Anshe Kamenitz de Lite, Poel Zedek Anshe Ileya, and Agudath Achim M'Krakau. Original illustration by W. A. Rogers. Published in the May 1898 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Caricature by Franklin Morris Howarth published in Puck. The text reads : 1 --Mr. Dawson: "Ah! I like these blustery, windy mornings." 2 --Mr. Dawson: "Phew! That was a gust." 3 --Itinerant hat collector: "Dings vas gomin' my vay. Dot vas a good ringer." 4 --Itinerant hat collector: "I vill schoost gover it mit dis odder von." --Mr. Dawson: "I don't wear cape coats after this. Where's my hat?" 5 --Mr. Dawson: "Well, I'll be hanged! My hat nowhere in sight. It must have blown over that wall. Well, I'm in a pretty fix! I'll catch my death of cold, bareheaded in this wind." 6 --Mr. Dawson: "Ah! Perhaps this Jew will sell me one of those hats. Have you a hat there to fit me, my friend? " 7 --The itinerant collector: "Dot vas too pad your hat plows over der vall. Yes, I haf a hat vat I schoost pought from Mr. Vanderbildt. Ach! So hellup me gracious! It vas schoost your size, undt I sell him for t'ree tollar." 8 --Mr. Dawson: "Mary, I had a very funny experience. My hat blew off and went over a garden wall. A hat peddler came along just in the nick of time and sold me this one for three dollars. It is just as good as new." 9 --Mrs. Dawson (in disgust): "James Dawson, there are no fools like an old fool! You had better wear a bonnet tied on with strings the next time you go out in the wind. This is your own hat, and has your name inside."
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in the October 1897 edition of Funny Pictures, published by the Judge Publishing Company. The text reads : --Mrs. Cohen (sternly): "Shakop und Ikey, ged your heads under cover! Here gomes dot gonductdor to dake ub mein ticket alretty."
Caricature by James Montgomery Flagg published in Judge. The caption reads : --Customer: "Are the colors in this mackintosh fast colors?" --Clerk: "Very fast; in fact, when it rains, I guarantee that they will run."
Caricature by Franklin Morris Howarth published in Puck. The text reads : 1 --Mr. Hockheimer: "Ach! Mein Gott, Shakop, vy you vaste your dime ofer dot foolish pook--over dot crazy fool pusiness about dot palmistry. Dot vill nefer do you no goot votefer." --Hockheimer, Jr.: "Oh! Don't vorry, Fader--it maype gomes in handy some day." 2 --Mr. Hockheimer (after trying in vain for over an hour to fit customer with hat): "Vait, don't go, mein frendt; I see vot I gan do." 3 --Mr. Hockheimer (in anguish): "Oh! Shakop, mein sohn! Dish vas awful. I loose me a gustomer. Efery hat in der store ish too pig for his head. Vot vill I do me?" --Hockheimer, Jr.: "Calm yourself, Fader. I tries vot I gan do." 4 --"Goot morning, Mister. Oh! yes; dot hat vas entirely too pig. Say! Mister, did you effer hear apout dot science of palmistry, vot dells your fortune py der lines on your handt? Gif me your handt, I tells you." 5 --"You vas porn under a lucky planet. Your line of life vas goodt undt long, you vill live to old age." 6 --"Your power for knowledge is enormously developed. You vill become a prilliant man--a scholar, a statesman, perhaps der President. You vas a porn leader of men--like Napoleon." 7 --"You have great powers of concentration and determination--you vill succeed in votefer you underdakes." 8 --"Fader, you must have made some mistakes. Any of dese hats vill fit der great schentlemans. Give me a larger size. Goot." 9 --Mr. Hockheimer (falling on his son's neck): "Oh! mein sohn, der pride of mein life. I dakes you in bartnership tomorrow."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue) in Königsberg (Kaliningrad). Published in the November 7, 1896, edition of the Illustrirte Zeitung.
Black-and-and-white offset print reproduction depicting Jews from Portugal, Algeria, and Germany. From Album géographique by Marcel Dubois and Camille Guy, published Paris: Paris, A. Colin & cie.
Caricature published in Judge depicting the merchandise of a store for four weather conditions : very dry and sultry; clear and warmer; cloudy and occasional showers; and cold wave with indications of snow.
Caricature by Frederick Burr Opper published in Puck. The text reads : --Mrs. Blazenheimer: "Vot vas der drubble ofer dere?" --Mr. Flamberg: "It's dot fool feller, Smokenstein;--he vas bound to come here dressed as a fireman--und dey vas pudding him oud!"
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting Jews from Morocco. Illustration by F. de Myrbach. From the article "Peeps into Barbary" by J. E. Budgett Meakin, published in the August 1896 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
This is the second page of a letter written to "William" from Elias Rivers on April 29, 1895. On this page, Mr. Rivers details the second part of the meeting of 14 men from James Island who had served in the Civil War. After eating dinner, the letters and excuses of those unable to come were read. Those who were absent included: Dr. J.L. Girardeau, Stiles Mellichamp, Capt. H.S. Lebby, W.W. Lawton, Dr. J.H. Mellichamp, E.M. Freer, W.A. Mellichamp, and William Rivers. The names of those who had died during the war were also read and included: Edward H. Mellichamp, Stiles M. Hinson, Joseph M. Mellichamp, J. Peronneau Royall, W.S. Mellichamp, J.C. Seabrook, Campbell Holmes, and Rawlins H. Rivers. In the afternoon, the photographs of those present were taken and the evening was spent talking. The men left after breakfast the next day. It is noted that the only alcohol consumed was a bottle of wine from 1835 that had survived the war by being buried when Sherman passed through South Carolina in 1865.
This is the first page of a letter written to "William" from Elias L. Rivers on April 29, 1895, in order to "preserve" a memory. In the letter, Rivers recalls the meeting of 14 men who were from James Island and that had served in the Civil War at "William's" home on March 27, 1895. Rivers lists the men's names and where they were living at the time. The men at the meeting included: Constant H. Rivers, E.L. Rivers, Jenkins Holmes, J.F. Lawton, J.H. Freer, W.G. Hinson, Dr. Robert Lebby, Dr. W.B. Seabrook, Dr. b.M. Lebby, W.A. Clark, W.B. Minott, Edward T. Legare, R.E. Mellichamp, Chas. H. Rivers. Mr. Rivers recalls that one man had not been to James Island since 1854 and was shocked at all of the changes he encountered upon arrival in 1895. The bottom of this page states that the group had a dinner and were joined by Mr. J.T. Dill, Robert Bee, and S.L. Hinson.
The folio, Examples of Colonial Architecture in Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga., features photographic plates of some of the most important houses and buildings in Charleston and Savannah. Photographs include exterior views of the buildings, gates, and entrances, as well as interior views of fireplaces, mantels, doors, rooms, and ceilings. Compiled and photographed by Edward A. Crane and E.E. Soderholtz. Published in 1895 by the Boston Architectural Club (Boston, Mass.).
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish money changer from Cairo. From a drawing by C. Rudolf Huber. From Ridpath's universal history, Volume 5, by John Clark Ridpath.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish marriage ceremony. After a drawing by R. Taylor. From Ridpath's universal history, Volume 5, by John Clark Ridpath.
Black and white portrait of Armida H. Cohen, 4x6 inches. Back of portrait includes handwritten reading "For Winsome with Lee's love. Taken in July 1895."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jews from Tangier. From a drawing by Émile Bayard. From Ridpath's universal history, Volume 5, by John Clark Ridpath.
Group portrait of Armida Harby Cohen, Lee C. Harby, Lily Lee Harby, Arthur Sydney Isaacs, and Cyril A. Isaacs. Portrait of Armida Harby Cohen added after original photograph was taken.
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in Judge. The text reads : 1 --Abraham: "Ha! Vats dot?" --Levy: "I tink I make dot a berminent sign. He can't get around dot." 2 --Abraham: "Let me tink." --Levy: "Dot sign is berminent, you bet." 3 --Abraham: "I gits square on dot Levy." --Levy: "Dot's nice, don't it?" 4 --Abraham: "!!!" --Levy: "---"
Black-and-white offset print reproduction with a portrait of author Israel Zangwill. From a painted portrait by Solomon J. Solomon. Published in the January 19, 1895, edition of The Graphic.
Caricature by Eugene Zimmerman published in the December 1895 edition of Judge's Library, published by the Judge Publishing Company. The caption reads : --Waits (singing lustily): "Christians, awake!"
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting reading from the Torah in the synagogue. From Ridpath's universal history, Volume 5, by John Clark Ridpath.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Alphonse Mucha's poster for Victorien Sardou's play Gismonda, which premiered in 1894 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance. The poster shows actress Sarah Bernhardt in costume as the play's title character. Published in a supplement to Le Courrier français, January 6, 1895.
A tinted photograph of St. Philip's Church from the street with an accompanying article. In the photograph, both the Dock Street Theatre (left) and the Huguenot Church (right) can be seen.
Black-and-white etching depicting a Jewish jeweler in Tangier. Etching by Adolphe-Alphonse Géry-Bichard after a painting by Alfred Dehodencq. Printed Paris: Imp. A. Salmon & Ardail. Published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jews from Russia at a peasant market. Illustration by Frederic Remington. From the article "The Russian and his Jew" by Poultney Bigelow, published in the March 1894 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the first Cabinet of the Confederate States, including Judah P. Benjamin serving as Attorney General. From Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War.
1893 booklet advertising the Pine Forest Inn, a Summerville, S.C. resort which opened in 1891. Includes several images of the Inn and its grounds, and describes the Inn's accomodations and the health benefits of Summerville
Photograph of the "Radiance." Back of photo inscribed: "Steamer 'Radiance' aground in front of the shell road near Beaufort South Carolina. Hurricane of 1893. #9."
Photograph of hurricane damage to wharves in Beaufort. Back of photo inscribed: "Wharves. Beaufort, South Carolina after cyclone Aug 27th 1893. 1893 Hurricane. #22."
Photograph of the damaged and listing upper deck of the "City of Savannah." Back of photo inscribed: "'City of Savannah' (Cyclone August 27 1893). #7."
Photograph of hurricane damage on Bay Street. Back of photo inscribed: "Beaufort South Carolina after the cyclone of August 27th 1893. Bay Street in front of the residence of the Hon. Wm. Elliott. Club house shown on the right. St[eamer?] Pilot Boy on the left. #15."
Photograph of the of the sinking ship "City of Savannah." Back of photo inscribed: "'City of Savannah' off the coast of South Carolina. Three miles from Hunting Island (Cyclone Aug 27 1893). #4."
Photograph of the damaged and listing upper deck of the "City of Savannah." Back of photo inscribed: "'City of Savannah' off Hunting Island (Cyclone August 27 1893). #5."
Photograph of three steamboats run aground. Back of photo inscribed: "Steamers 'Pilot Boy,' 'Reliance,' and 'Juno' aground near Beaufort (Cyclone Aug 27 1893). #1."
A sketch of the 1893 hurricane, attributed to a "world artist" who made it "on the spot." In the margins, someone annotated it with the title "When the island was submerged" and the date and time October 13, 1893 at 10 AM.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish man from Fes. Original engraving by Geroge P. Bartle after a drawing by W. H. Drake. Published in the August 1893 edition of The Century Magazine.
Caricature by F. T. Richards published in the December 28, 1893, edition of Life. The caption reads : "For further details just look in at almost any New York theatre."
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