Printed on postcard: “Geraldine Farrar ‘Madame Butterfly’.” Postcard by GG Company

From the College of Charleston Scrapbooks and Photo Albums collection at The College of Charleston Library. 

“Dickens’ Old Curiosity Shop”

One of these receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town. [in ink below photograph]; Dickens’ “Old Curiosity Shop.” London. 3711 J.V. [printed on photograph]; J. Kuhn 220 Rue de Rivoli Paris [embossed on bottom]

From the College of Charleston Scrapbooks and Photo Albums collection at College of Charleston. 

The Park, Versailles- Fountain of Latona

600 30 Versailles. Bassin de Latone. [printed on photograph]; J. Kuhn 220 Rue de Rivoli Paris [embossed on bottom right of photograph]

From the College of Charleston Scrapbooks and Photo Albums collection at College of Charleston. 

President’s House, 6 Glebe St., the oldest building on campus. Built in 1770 as the parsonage house for St. Philip’s Episcopal Church and home to the College’s first president, Bishop Robert Smith. Reverend Smith held some of the first classes at the College in this home. Acquired from St. Philip’s Church in 1961 and restored in 1965.

From the College of Charleston Photographs (Buildings and Grounds) collection at College of Charleston Libraries. 

Isaac Riddell. Slave pass, 1849.

Transcript: “Grace has my permission to Sleep In pattans Lot for three months from date Oct 3 1849 Isaac L(?) Riddell 70 Meeting St.”

This slave pass is one of three found in 1934 in a Book of Common Prayer. The book was donated to the College of Charleston by Daniel Horlbeck in 1875.

From the Charleston Slave Passes collection at College of Charleston Libraries. 

Dr. Martin Luther King (1967) at home of Septima Poinsette Clark. With Septima’s granddaughter, Yvonne Clark (center) and [perhaps grandnephew], Adrian Poinsette (right).

From the Septima Poinsette Clark Scrapbook at the Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston. 

“Houses of Parliament”

The largest Gothic structure in the world [in ink below photograph] Houses of Parliament, London. 3584 J.V. [printed on photograph]; J. Kuhn 220 Rue de Rivoli Paris [embossed on bottom right of photograph]

From the College of Charleston Scrapbooks and Photo Albums collection at The College of Charleston Libraries. 

Farnsworth’s Loop, Santa Catalina Island. Embossed on front: “53077 Farnsworth’s Loop, Santa Catalina Island. Copyright, 1899, by Detroit Photographic Co.”

From the College of Charleston Artwork and Sketchbooks at College of Charleston Libraries. 

William Henry Heyward to James B. Heyward — August 19, 1844. 

Transcript: Montreal, Canada August. 19. 1844. Dear James, I write to you from a place which I dare say you well remember if it were only from the fact of having been sick here when travelling in company with Nat and myself. If I am not mistaken too. it rained the greater part of the time while we were here, and was otherwise [illegible] disagreeable. Well, by a singular chance I am circumstanced now very similarly.

From the Heyward and Ferguson family papers, 1806-1923 at the The College of Charleston Libraries. 

Handkerchief depicting the Vinhorady Synagogue, Prague, Czech Republic. 

Wilhelm Stiassny built this synagogue from 1896 to 1898 in the Romanesque/Gothic Revival Style. 

From the William A. Rosenthall Judaica collection- Prints and Photographs at College of Charleston Libraries. 

Three women paddling canoe with hillside house in the background. 11 x 8 cm.

College of Charleston Scrapbooks and Photo Albums at College of Charleston Libraries. 

Pencil on paper, 28.5cm x 36cm. Sketch of the exterior of the National City Bank of New York featuring trees and people.

The Joseph Mordecai Hirschmann Collection at the College of Charleston Libraries. 

Woman posing near bike with lake and large hill in background. 11 x 8 cm.

College of Charleston Scrapbooks and Photo Albums at College of Charleston. 

Illustration from an issue of Harper’s Weekly (1900) that shows the grounds and surrounding area for the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition to be held in 1901-1902.

From the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition, 1901-1902 at the College of Charleston Libraries. 

Exterior of the William Blacklock House, 18 Bull St. One of the College’s most prized buildings, the Blacklock House was built in 1800 for one of Charleston’s wealthier merchants. It was acquired by the College in 1974. Listed as a National Historic Landmark.

From the College of Charleston — Buildings and Grounds collection at College of Charleston Libraries.