Subject: Public health

A folded broadside advertisement for the Baker-Levy Chemical Co. of Indianapolis, Indiana. Dated 1892, it features instructions for using an injection treatment for gonorrhea ("Zip Kit") and an advertisement for a body lice killer. The broadside was used into 1950.

Pamphlet titled "Handbook for Visitors to the Poor: The Sanitary Rights of Dwellers in Tenement and Lodging Houses in NYC and Brooklyn," published by the State Charities Aid Association, No. 16, in 1878. The pamphlet addresses sanitary conditions and the rights of residents in tenement and lodging houses in New York City and Brooklyn.

A 32-page booklet titled "How to Feed a Family," containing recipes in Yiddish and English. Published by the Bureau of Public Health and the Board of Patronesses of the United Hebrew Charities. The booklet is identified as Keep Well Booklet #2. The cover is described as "Very Comical."

One-page letter written by David Gratz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 1, 1853, to James Allport in Morris Township, Pennsylvania. The letter discusses Mr. Jones's debt, the economic climate, and the health situation in Philadelphia, specifically addressing rumors of yellow fever. The letter features a "PHILADELPHIA PA./5cts" cds postmark and a "BLOOD'S/DESPATCH" handstamp.

A two-page letter written by Jacob De la Motta to Isaac Leeser on September 17, 1832, from Charleston, South Carolina. De la Motta discusses the cholera outbreak in Charleston and its impact on his ability to visit Leeser in Philadelphia. The letter offers insight into the social and medical conditions of the time.

Issue of Porcupine's Gazette, a newspaper published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 23, 1797. This issue includes a report on the yellow fever epidemic, notes the death of Mr. Smith, mentions James Brown's residence near the Jewish burying grounds, and lists Israel Israel as a city commissioner.

This extremely rare softbound booklet, published in Montreal in 1861 by John Lovell, explores the laws of Kashrut as detailed in the Bible and Rabbinical writings, relating them to modern sanitary regulations. Authored by Rabbi Abraham de Sola, this treatise is a significant piece of mid-19th-century Jewish American scholarship. WorldCat lists only one copy in Canada, and Singerman lists none. This work represents the first time an American religious leader connected Kashrut laws to a contemporary context. No evidence suggests a Part II was ever published. The booklet is described as being of exceptional rarity.

This report, written in Dutch, is a petition from David Ricardo Capriles, a medical doctor and doctor for the poor in Curaçao, to the Second Chamber of the States General of the Netherlands. Dated May 24, 1882, the petition likely concerns a matter of public health or social welfare on the island. The exact content of the petition remains unknown without further access to the text.