Subject: Islamic architecture

Stereoscopic photograph depicting Congregation Emanu-El in New York, New York, circa 1885. The image shows the congregation's Moorish-style building located on Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street, designed by Leopold Eidlitz. This building is described as "a vivid combination of Viollet-le-Duc's structural theories and Saracenic ornament" (Robert A. M. Stern, Gregory Gilmartin, and Thomas Mellins, *New York 1930, Architecture and Urbanism between the Two World Wars*, Rizzoli International, 1987). The photograph is part of the School Set Series II, No. 37.

Stereoscopic photograph depicting Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The image, part of the 'Philadelphia Series #44' by B. Ropes & Co., shows the synagogue in the Moorish style. The photograph is undated, but is circa 1875.