Dolph Briscoe Center for American History - 22 Matching Results
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- [Curing Cancer with Red-Clover Tea]
- Clipping regarding the use of red-clover tea to cure cancer. Advertisements on the reverse side for Wm. W. Gamble, Bookseller and Stationer, and Gamble's News Depot, San Antonio, Texas.
- [Clipping regarding Adolphus and Angelina's engagement]
- Clipping regarding Adolphus and Angelina's engagement.
- [Clipping in German with a poem about beer and account of a hunting trip]
- Clipping with a poem about drinking beer. Reverse side is an account of a hunting trip.
- [Citronen als Diätetisches Heilmittel]
- Clipping detailing the medicinal use of lemons as previously published in The Lancet. Includes recipes for lemonade and similar substances. Advertisements on reverse.
- [Wie die Alten fungen, So zwitschern die Jungen]
- Clipping with a poem about aging. On reverse is an account of a strange series of events in church.
- [Blätter aus dem Buche der Weisheit]
- Clipping with sayings about life. On reverse is a partial illustration of a scene in Valparaiso with a description and a guide for foreigners who visit the Andes.
- [Strassburg nach der Uebergabe]
- Clipping with a poem regarding Strasbourg's annexation to the German Empire. Dated October 1, 1870.
- [L. Huth & Son]
- Clipping recommending L. Huth & Son as merchants.
- [Allerlei]
- Clipping containing small items of news including the following: 100 women from France are going to Mexico for silk growing, a French merchant locked up a thief with a vicious dog who killed him, and Ben Thompson has no shortage of refreshments and melons but welcomes visitors in jail. Reverse is a fragment of a clipping regarding trains.
- [Document regarding the founding of Castroville]
- Document regarding the founding of Castroville on the banks of the Medina in the province of San Antonio de Bexar. Gives potential emigrants information about price of passage, cost of farm animals in Texas, and lists items emigrating families should bring with them, including kitchen utensils, farming implements, seeds and other items.
- [Clipping with article by Hr. Castro, February 24, 1846]
- Parts of a newspaper, possibly published in Mannheim by Fr. Moritz H‚hner. Announcements dated between February 25 and March 2, 1846. Article by Hr. Castro signed on February 24, 1846 in Antwerp.
- [Clipping from Courrier D'Alsace, Cinquiéme année, No. 118]
- Clipping from a newsletter dated October 1, 1846 that includes a letter from Huth & Co stating that Texas has good soil, the climate is healthy and all are thriving and states that Pfanner must have been motivated by something other than truth to say such bad things about Texas in his previously published letter. The writer goes on to explain the process of distributing land and refrains from explaining why Pfanner's last letter was written from Mexico and not Texas. Sign by Huth & Co. on September 24, 1846 in Neufreystaedt. Letters and articles are translated into German.