Bronze shoe, 11 3/4 inches long, belonging to Jacob Kohn (1829-1897). Kohn, a shoemaker who immigrated from Bavaria in the 1840s, became superintendent and later owner of a Confederate shoe factory in Montgomery, Alabama, during and after the Civil War. The shoe is in excellent condition and is a material artifact relating to his life and career.
Subject: Reconstruction Era
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Two-page letter written on the letterhead of the "Office Assistant Quartermaster, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands," from D. Carvahlo in New Orleans to Reverend Isaac Leeser on April 19, 1866. The letter discusses business matters related to books, with Carvahlo expressing some frustration.
Autograph letter signed by Philip L. Cohen to Lt. John W. Clark, dated November 13, 1876, from Augusta, Georgia. Cohen resigns his commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the Richmond Hussars militia unit. The letter is written on Banker/Broker Letterhead of John J. Cohen & Sons. The verso includes annotations regarding the approval and forwarding of the resignation.
A militia commission appointing Philip L. Cohen as 2nd Lieutenant in the Richmond Hussars cavalry unit, dated June 15, 1874. The verso notes Cohen's resignation accepted November 20, 1876. The commission is signed by James M. Smith, Governor of Georgia.
Sharecropping note payable issued by J. Abraham & Bro. in Montgomery, Alabama on March 28, 1871. This document, dating from the Reconstruction era, details cash and supply advances to three individuals, likely formerly enslaved people, who marked their agreement with an "X" and had their names subsequently added and witnessed. The note was witnessed by J. Levy.