A postcard of the mural from the main lobby of the Fort Sumter Hotel that depicts the attack on Fort Sumter. The front of the postcard reads, "This mural painting, in the Main Lobby of the Fort Sumter Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina, symbolizes the initial attack by Confederate forces, beginning the War Between the States.--The painting is by Alfred Hutty, internationally noted artist and etcher." The back of the postcard reads, "The first shot of the War Between the States was fired April 12, 1861, from a Confederate battery at Fort Johnson (position of the observer in this painting) and landed on the parade ground of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. In this painting Fort Sumter is center, Fort Moultrie to the distant left and a floating Confederate battery to the right. The flag is the original seven star flag of the Confederacy. Fort Sumter, occupied by Confederates on April 14, 1861, was under constant siege by Federal forces from that date until February 18, 1865--In 1948 Fort Sumter was designated a national monument."
Postcard from the 14th World Zionist Congress held in Vienna. With a black-and-white photograph of the cypress tree planted by Theodor Herzl in Motsa during his 1898 visit to Palestine. Includes an inset portrait of Herzl. The Hebrew text at the top of the postcard is excerpted from Jeremiah 31:16 : "And thy children shall return to their own border."
Postcard with a reproduction of Marc Chagall's 1931 oil painting Interior of a Synagogue in Safed, which depicts the interior of the Ari Sephardi Synagogue in Safed. The original painting is held by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
