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[Tax receipt with list of slaves]

A tax receipt for Thomas Graham that lists slaves.

Date: 1860

Item Type: Text

[Correspondence from Lucadia Pease to Juliet Niles]

A letter to Juliet Niles from her sister Lucadia Pease, who says that the family has (at least temporarily) decided to call their home "Wood Lawn." Includes typewritten transcription of the letter.

Date: November 9, 1860

Creator: Pease, Lucadia

Item Type: Letter

[Funeral receipt]

A receipt for printing and circulating funeral tickets (possibly for the funeral of Anne Marshall Pease, daughter of E.M. & Lucadia Pease).

Date: August 1862

Item Type: Text

[Funeral receipt]

A receipt for the "funeral of [E.M. Pease’s] child," Anne Marshall Pease.

Date: September 19, 1862

Item Type: Text

Primary charge to the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Texas : delivered in Christ Church, Houston, on Saturday, May 9th, 1863

Primary charge to the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Texas : delivered in Christ Church, Houston, on Saturday, May 9th, 1863 by Bishop of the Diocese, Alexander Gregg.

Date: 1863

Creator: Gregg, Alexander

Item Type: Book

[Agreement for Sale of Multiple Enslaved People]

An agreement for the sale of multiple enslaved people of the following names and ages: Adam (25), Major (25), Tom (25), Charley (18), James (18), Hannibal (16), Charles (15), Julius (15), Ned (14), Samuel (14), Sandy (14), Scott (7), Frank (7), Mason (4), Mayo (4), Lucinda (26), Mary (18). Eliza (22), Catherine (14), Francis (12), Matty (10), Rovina (10), Martha (9), Joanna (7), Louis (15), Richard (14), Nash (18), and Marella & child.

Date: January 1, 1864

Item Type: Text

[Railroad near Llano]

Photograph of a crowd of people and horse-drawn carriages gathered around an A&N Locomotive No. 1 train on a railroad in a forest. A note on back reads "Mr. Will Todman from England, Time Keeper for Quarries at Llano, Texas. Quarrying granite for consturction of the State Capitol at Austin. 50,000 tones narrow gauge R.R. A. & N.W. Near Llano -- before R.R. was finished to an Austin Band was was hired to play -- Group Moore F. [illegible], (Major Ramsdell)." The Austin and Northwestern Railroad … more

Date: [1864..1881]

Item Type: Photograph

[Lungkwitz Family Portrait]

Photograph of the Lungkwitz family, who are sitting around a table outside under a tree. There is a stone building in the background. Identifications from the back of the print: Alice Lungkwitz, Guido Lungkwitz, Martha Lungkwitz, Helene Lungkwitz, Ralph Kuechler, Eva Lungkwitz, Max H. Lungkwitz, Camilla Kuechler, Richard Kuechler.

Date: 1865

Item Type: Photograph

[Portrait of Helene and Alice Lungkwitz]

Photograph of Helene and Alice Lungkwitz as young girls, who are standing and wearing matching dresses.

Date: [1865..1870]

Item Type: Photograph

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to President Andrew Johnson]

A draft of a letter to President Andrew Johnson from E.M. Pease, who discusses issues related to the Civil War.

Date: September 4, 1865

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall

Item Type: Letter

[Custer at Texas School for the Blind]

Photograph of General George A. Custer, Elizabeth Custer, and unidentified others on the steps of the School for the Blind building. Custer spent a few months in Austin after the Civil War.

Date: 1866

Item Type: Photograph

Location: None

[E. F. Caldwell]

Photograph of E. F. Caldwell, father of Frank Caldwell. A handwritten note at the foot of the image says, "Papa." Carte-de-visite format.

Date: [1866..1880]

Creator: Oliphant, W. J.

Item Type: Photograph

[Governor's Mansion]

Photograph of the Texas Governor's mansion view from across Colorado Street to the northwest, looking at the front (east) and south elevations, showing unpainted brick, people sitting on the front porch, the original staircase, and the original cantilevered balcony.

Date: 1866

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 30.272753 -97.743087

[Man on Horse on East Sixth Street]

Photograph of 200 East Sixth Street circa 1866. The man on horse is William Oliphant who owned a jewelry store on Pecan Street in 1852. The child with him is Will Carter. The Missouri House, Michael Ziller residence, is in the background.

Date: 1866~

Item Type: Photograph

[Scholz Garden]

Photograph of the exterior of Scholz Garden (Scholz Garten/Scholz Beer Garden) with an unidentified man standing in front of the door.

Date: [1866,1900]

Item Type: Photograph

[Tax receipts for E.M. Pease]

Receipts for direct taxes in insurrectionary districts

Date: 1866-06-23/1866-06-27

Item Type: Text

Pecan Street Looking East from Oliphant's Photo Gallery

Photograph of East Pecan Street (now 6th street) with William Oliphant (who had a jewelry store on Pecan Street in 1852) on a horse. The child next to the horse is Will Carter. A building in the background is visible and has "Missouri House" painted on the side. It was the residence of Michael Ziller. A sign also hangs from the second floor balcony of the house reading "Austin Hotel." Also visible in the background is England & Hannig Cabinet Makers.

Date: November 1866

Creator: Oliphant, W.J.

Item Type: Photograph

[Tightrope walker John Devier on Congress Avenue]

Photograph of a crowd gathered to watch a tight rope walker. Caption reads, "Scene on Congress Avenue in 1867, showing exhibition by a tight-rope walker (Devier) across the Avenue from the historic old Avenue Hotel at Eighth and Congress, on East side. The carriage at the left, entering the Avenue, is that of Gov. E. M. Pease (Gov. from 1853-57 and 1867-69)."

Date: 1867

Creator: Jordan-Ellison

Item Type: Photograph

[Money advanced by E.M. Pease for Freedmen’s Hospital in Brenham, TX]

"Expenditure of the $ 1000.00 currency advanced by EM Pease for the Freedmen['s Hospital] at Brenham[, TX] in the Fall of 1867."

Date: Autumn 1867

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall

Item Type: Text

[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland]

A document in which J.B.M. McFarland, a judge of the first judicial district, swears that he “neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatsoever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States”; a handwritten explanation follows.

Date: September 24, 1867

Item Type: Text

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

The first in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease—in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.

Date: October 29, 1867

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall

Item Type: Letter

[Receipts regarding Freedmen’s Hospital in Brenham, TX]

Two receipts from a druggist regarding the Freedmen’s Hospital in Brenham, Texas.

Date: 1867-10-30/1867-11-15

Creator: Chadwick, Eddins & Company

Item Type: Text

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

The second in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease—in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.

Date: October 31, 1867

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall

Item Type: Letter

[St. David's Episcopal Church]

Photograph of the exterior of St. David's Episcopal church. There are many people standing outside of the church.

Date: December 19, 1867

Item Type: Photograph

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[Tax receipt with list of slaves]

[Correspondence from Lucadia Pease to Juliet Niles]

[Funeral receipt]

[Funeral receipt]

Primary charge to the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Texas : delivered in Christ Church, Houston, on Saturday, May 9th, 1863

[Agreement for Sale of Multiple Enslaved People]

[Railroad near Llano]

[Lungkwitz Family Portrait]

[Portrait of Helene and Alice Lungkwitz]

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to President Andrew Johnson]

[Custer at Texas School for the Blind]

[E. F. Caldwell]

[Governor's Mansion]

[Man on Horse on East Sixth Street]

[Scholz Garden]

[Tax receipts for E.M. Pease]

Pecan Street Looking East from Oliphant's Photo Gallery

[Tightrope walker John Devier on Congress Avenue]

[Money advanced by E.M. Pease for Freedmen’s Hospital in Brenham, TX]

[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland]

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

[Receipts regarding Freedmen’s Hospital in Brenham, TX]

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

[St. David's Episcopal Church]