Geography: Rio de Janeiro

This trade card advertises W.F. McLaughlin & Co., coffee importers and roasters in Chicago, Illinois. The front of the card features an illustration of a group of Jews praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The background shows the Western Wall, a significant site for Jewish religious practice. The back of the card provides advertising copy and a list of McLaughlin's locations in Chicago, Illinois. The card was printed circa 1893.

A one-page letter written by José Silvestre Rebello in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Professor Joshua Cohen in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 12, 1838. Rebello requests that two barrels of sugar be given to a Mr. Nathan in Washington, D.C., for the benefit of Josephine Cohn (Cohen), an orphan under Nathan's wife's care. Rebello explains that he would send more but is financially constrained by the current government.