Box 6

Collection Overview From the Collection: Includes family and research papers, photocopies, scrapbook, photographs, clippings. Tobias papers include family histories and research on individuals. Slave sales of Abraham Tobias, oath of allegiance, etc. of Emily T. Minis, & resolution, Charleston Board of Health, on Joseph L. Tobias. Family Bibles and data regarding Tobias, Mordecai, Lazarus, Alexander, and de Lyon families. Mordecai family histories and notes on individuals. M.C. Mordecai papers regarding blockade runner Isabel,...

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Journal describes sightseeing in Egypt, the pyramids, circumcision ceremony, visiting the DeLeon family, etc. In Constantinople, he mentions women glimpsed in harem, & St. Sophia. He continues on to Athens, takes Turkish baths, goes to Pompeii, Capri, Paestum, Salerno, and Rome, visiting the Vatican, Sistine Chapel, etc. With worsening tuberculosis, he returns to Heidelberg and the diary abruptly ends. Some entries in German.

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Letters to his mother and sisters re schooling in Heidelberg, sightseeing in Germany and Italy. With 1859 letter from C. W. Boyd after Mordecai’s death.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Includes family and research papers, photocopies, scrapbook, photographs, clippings. Tobias papers include family histories and research on individuals. Slave sales of Abraham Tobias, oath of allegiance, etc. of Emily T. Minis, & resolution, Charleston Board of Health, on Joseph L. Tobias. Family Bibles and data regarding Tobias, Mordecai, Lazarus, Alexander, and de Lyon families. Mordecai family histories and notes on individuals. M.C. Mordecai papers regarding blockade runner Isabel,...

Scope and Contents Details of travel from Charleston, SC to Washington, DC, Philadelphia, New York, Bremen, Munich, Nuremberg, Heidelberg, Milan and other cities. With detailed descriptions of city sights, populations, manners, social customs. In US, he mentions many other Jewish families, such as Pembers, Tobiases, Hendrickses, etc. With a letter of introduction from "Jeff Davis," Lazarus went to Heidelberg to study; descriptions of lectures, a High Holy Day Service, the situation of Jews; 100th anniversary...

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CSA era papers of Lazarus in Palmetto Guards, Siege Train, and Company B., Manigualt’s Battalion. Medical discharge papers for myopia, with signatures of J. Dickson Bruns, Eli Geddings, and Robert Lebby. Clothing (oversize), mustering out documents, manuscript copy of General Order 18, General Joseph Johnston. Oaths of Allegiance of R. and E. M. Lazarus, with photo & negative of latter document; petition for pardon and official correspondence from William Seward granting pardon.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Includes family and research papers, photocopies, scrapbook, photographs, clippings. Tobias papers include family histories and research on individuals. Slave sales of Abraham Tobias, oath of allegiance, etc. of Emily T. Minis, & resolution, Charleston Board of Health, on Joseph L. Tobias. Family Bibles and data regarding Tobias, Mordecai, Lazarus, Alexander, and de Lyon families. Mordecai family histories and notes on individuals. M.C. Mordecai papers regarding blockade runner Isabel,...

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Marriage document Lazarus & Minnie Mordecai (born 1839)

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Letter (1864) from unknown writer in CSA Nitre and Mining Bureau re torpedo boat; and from Henry S. Samuel (1867), parnass, Liverpool synagogue re political situation in US after the Civil War

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President Andrew Johnson’s appointment of Lazarus to Appraiser, Customs House, Charleston (oversize), and related correspondence. Papers re Lazarus_ inability to serve due to CSA service and petition of Charleston merchants favoring Lazarus. With papers re resignation (1866) attempts at getting paid.