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Bird's Eye View Map of San Antonio, Tex.

Description: Pictorial map of San Antonio showing buildings and streets with a river running through the middle of the city; the map is surrounded by business advertisements. On the back are four pages of text with a variety of articles including an article about Texas climatology, a map of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway routes, a series of anecdotes, and two pages of biographical sketches with illustrations of the people and animals they describe.
Date: December 1891
Creator: San Antonio Light
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Brands, Vol. 1

Description: Handwritten directory of brands associated with ranches mainly located in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Directory is arranged alphabetically by brand. Volume one covers A through T.
Date: [1890..1899]
Creator: Cattle Raisers Association of Texas.
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

Brands, Vol. 2

Description: Handwritten directory of brands associated with ranches mainly located in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Directory is arranged alphabetically by brand. Volume two covers U through Z, and the numerical brands.
Date: [1890..1899]
Creator: Cattle Raisers Association of Texas.
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

In Loving Rememberance of Mrs. Mattie H. Cook

Description: Printed card remembering Mrs. Mattie H. Cook, who died on Dec. 9, 1893 at age 38. Her name is printed on an image of a Bible and a poem is printed below. The poem reads, "We miss thee from our home dear; We miss thee from thy place; A shadow o'er our life is cast; We miss the sunshine of thy face We miss thy kind and willing hand, Thy fond and earnest care; Our home is dark without thee- We miss thee everywhere."
Date: December 1893
Partner: Log Cabin Village

Journal of Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference.: of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, held in Waxahachie, Texas, November 18-23, 1896.

Description: Journal proceedings of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, condensed minutes of the proceedings, resolutions, by-laws, memoirs, and statistical tables.
Date: 1896
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Partner: Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church

Journal of Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference, of the Methodist Epsicopal Church, South.

Description: Journal proceedings of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the proceedings, appointments, memoirs, report of boards and committees, and statistical tables.
Date: 1898
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Partner: Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church

Journal of Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference, of the Methodist Epsicopal Church, South, Held in the City Hall, Fort Worth, Texas, November 15th-21st, 1893.

Description: Journal proceedings of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, condensed minutes of the proceedings, supplemental reports, constitution and by-laws of the Northwest Texas Conference Brotherhood, memoirs, and statistical tables.
Date: 1894
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Partner: Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church

Lena Ellis on her 5th Birthday, 1894

Description: Studio photograph of Lena Ellis on her fifth birthday. Her hair is short, dark and parted in the middle. She is wearing a large, long white dress with a sash and poofy sleeves. Her shoes are black with buckles and she holds a bouquet of flowers in her right hand. She is standing on top of a grass pile with a wooden fence behind her. Printed beneath the photograph is, "Works, Cor. 3rd and Main Streets. Fort Worth. Tex." Written is, "Lena Ellis".
Date: August 30, 1894
Creator: Works
Partner: Private Collection of the Ellis and Blanton Families

LFD Ranch

Description: Photograph of cowboys catching horses on the LFD Ranch near Midland. The cowboys stand holding ropes near a large herd of horses. A pile of fire wood is next to the cooking pots on the right of the photo.
Date: 1890~
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Wichita Falls, Texas, 1890

Description: Map of a birds-eye view of Wichita Falls, Texas in 1890. Illustrations of the Courthouse, Grocery Store, School, Bank, and other establishments surround the view of the town's buildings and it's lake.
Date: 1890
Creator: Fowler, Thaddeus Mortimer
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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