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.
Black-and-white lithographed portrait of lawyer and statesman Adolphe Crémieux. Lithograph by Alexandre Néraudeau. From Panthéon républicain, published Paris: A. Fayard.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction with portraits of Jewish individuals prominent in London during the late 19th century. Includes the following: Rev. Professor David Woolf Marks, Baron Henry de Worms, Dr. Henry Behrend, Sir Phillip Magnus, Samuel Montagu, Joseph Sebag Montefiore, Sir Albert Sassoon, Benjamin Louis Cohen, Dr. Michael Friedländer, Sir John Simon, Frederick David Mocatta, Rev. Dr. Hermann Adler, Rev. Dr. Moses Gaster, Sir Julian Goldsmid, and Rev. Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler.
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.
Black-and-white photographic postcard of Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel addressing the first meeting of the Assembly of Representatives on October 7, 1920, in Jerusalem. On stage are Arthur Ruppin, Menaḥem Mendel Ussishkin, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, David Yellin, Rabbi Jacob Meir, and Yosef Sprinzak.
Black-and-white photographic postcard of Hebert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine; Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the Colonies; and Meir Dizengoff in Tel Aviv on March 30, 1921.