File contains sermons by Rabbi Singer and others relating to Chanukah and Christmas. Includes Sermon for Miketz (typewritten and handwritten); Rabbi's Views on Christmas (handwritten); Sermon about Chanukah and Christmas (typewritten). Also includes: "If Jesus of Nazareth Could Speak to the Christians, If Judah Maccabee Could Speak to the Jews--Today!" Sermon delivered by Rev. Dr. Julius Mark, Senior Rabbi of Congregation Emanu-el of the City of New York on Saturday December 25, 1948; “The Jewish Jesus and the Christian Christ" by Ferdinand M. Isserman, Rabbi of Temple Israel, Saint Louis, Mo.
The collection is comprised of 470 lantern slides positives, chiefly in black and white. The slides range in date from the late 1890’s to the mid-1910’s. The largest series (93 slides) are illustrated biblical passages of the Old Testament. The collection also comprises images of the Spanish-American War, the U.S. Navy, the Wreck of the Maine in Havana, Cuba (1898), the Battle of Bacolod (1902), and the Second Boer War (1899-1902). Included in the slides are images of China, Alaska, Cuba, Philippines, and several unidentified locations and portraits.
17.5 contains 1 image of Charles Towne a science consultant and 3 sets of negatives. All these images were taken in 1972 at the same school, possibly Elm Place School.
