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Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Arkansa Territory: Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States

Geographical, Historical, And Statistical Map Of Arkansas Territory. Map Of Arkansas And Other Territories of the United States Respectfully inscribed to the Hon. J.C. Calhoun Secretary Of War By S.H. Long Major T. Engineers. No. 35. Drawn by S.H. Long Maj. U.S. Engineers. Engraved by Young & Delleker.

Date: 1822

Item Type: Map

Records of silver mining companies, Real de Batopilas, Mexico

Records delivered to commandant of the mines by J.M.A. Allen, D.I. Maldonais and others; Joel M. Poinsett included in records

Date: April 11, 1826

Item Type: Text

"Mexico. and Guatimala. Corrected from original information communicated by Simon A.G. Bourne Esq."

Hand-colored engraving of Mexico and Guatemala showing settlements, roads, mines and topography

Date: 1828

Creator: Hall, Sidney

Item Type: Map

Embroidered sampler

Plain weave sampler with silk embroidery, floral border, floral motifs, and poem. Text: "In Sharon's lovely Rose, Immortal beauties/ shine; Its sweet refreshing fragrance shows;/ Its origin divine./ Pleasure is a Rose, near which there ever grows/ the thorn of evil; It is wisdom's work so carefully/ to cull the Rose, as to avoid the thorn, and let its/ rich perfume exhale to heaven in grateful adoration/ of Him who gave the Rose to blow./ Mary Louise Brown, November 2nd 1829."

Date: November 2, 1829

Creator: Brown, Mary Louisa

Item Type: Physical Object

Cotton Book 1830

Cotton factors journal; records cotton bale weights before and after drying

Date: 1830

Item Type: Book

Pap boat

Porcelain pap boat with blue willow transferprinted design

Date: 1830~/1860~

Item Type: Physical Object

Peter Parley's Geography for Children: with nine maps and seventy-five engravings.

Front cover of a children's geography book.

Date: 1830~

Item Type: Artwork

Voz de la Patria, Tomo 2, Numero 19, Lunes 29 de Marzo de 1830

Continuation of the history of General Don Guadalupe Victoria, discussing the Fredonian Rebellion.

Date: March 29, 1830

Item Type: Text

Fredonia or the United States of North America; including also Cabotia, or the Canadian Provinces; the Western Territory to the Pacific Ocean; and the northern part of the Mexican States.

Hand-colored engraving of the United States showing settlements, roads and topography. An inset note in the lower-left corner explains the use of the term "Fredonia."

Date: August 1830

Item Type: Map

[Letter from Austin with Map]

Hand-written instructions concerning land surveys along the coast, signed by S. F. Austin. He mentions Duke, Nelms, and [Rales]. On the reverse, a map of the land survey is sketched with notes about dimensions. In the digital version, the first page is included twice - the second time a hand-written transcription of the letter is pictured beneath the original.

Date: November 1, 1830

Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836

Item Type: Letter

[Document Regarding the Treaty of Limits]

Treaty recognizing the U.S.-Mexican Border with commentary in Spanish and the text of treaties in both English and Spanish, side-by-side, including agreements signed January 12, 1828, and April 5, 1831.

Date: December 1, 1832

Creator: Fagoaga, Francisco

Item Type: Text

Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee

Front cover and title page of a book about David Crockett including an envelope addressed to Cary Hart.

Date: 1833

Item Type: Text

Estado libre de Coahuila y Tejas

Official Mexican Broadside tabulating the population of Coahuila and Texas for the 1833 census

Date: January 2, 1834

Item Type: Text

The Elementary Spelling Book

Spelling book

Date: 1835

Creator: Webster, Noah

Item Type: Text

New Map of Texas, with the contiguous American & Mexican States

Hand-colored map of Texas showing adjacent territories, grants, and states. Regions are shaded in various colors. Text boxes around the map include information on "Land Grants," "Rivers of Texas," and "Remarks on Texas."

Date: 1835

Creator: Young, J. H.

Item Type: Map

Article on balloons (aerial navigation)

According to the headers and footers, this document is from the "American Magazine," volume I, number 6 which was published in February of an unknown year (a handwritten note on the cover says 1835). The first page (30) is the beginning of an article about how different people might be spending the winter months. The second page (280) includes the end of an article about a riot and burning of a Convent in or near Boston (which may refer to the burning of the Charlestown Convent in August, 18… more

Date: February 1835

Item Type: Text

Letter to Sam Houston

Manuscript letter to Sam Houston from William G. Hill which is accompanied by the Goliad Declaration of Independence, an eight page manuscript, probably Sam Houston's copy, dated December 20, 1835

Date: December 20, 1835

Creator: Hill, William G.

Item Type: Letter

"Esh-Tah-Hum-Leah, or the Sleepy Eye: A Sioux Chief

Hand-colored lithograph of Sioux chief Esh-Tah-Hum-Leah visible from the waist up; he is wearing feathers in hair and has two braids, a scarf around his neck, and blanket over his right shoulder.

Date: 1836

Creator: Newsam

Item Type: Artwork

Receipt to Joseph Kilgore

To Joseph Kilgore, Harrisburg, for two bayonets and muskets

Date: 1836

Item Type: Text

Segundo Calendario Portatil de Ignacio Cumplido, Para el ano de 1837, Arreglado al meridiano de Mexico.

Front and back covers of a Mexican Almanac.

Date: 1836

Item Type: Text

Treaty of Velasco

1836 copy of the Treaty of Velasco; negotiated by Sam Houston to achieve peace between Texas and Mexico.

Date: 1836

Item Type: Text

[Repayment of Loan to the Provisional Government of Texas with Land]

Document describing the repayment of a loan to the Provisional Governement of Texas in land. Two loans were made to Texas via Branch T. Archer, William H. Wharton, and Stephen F. Austin for $250,000, and is being paid off in land scrip.

Date: April 1, 1836

Item Type: Legal Document

Surrender of Santa Anna

Print of Santa Anna's surrender to General Sam Houston during the Texas Revolution

Date: April 22, 1836

Item Type: Artwork

"Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Reports from the Secretaries of State and War, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th instant."

U.S. House, 24th Congress, 1st session, H.R. Doc. #56, May 14, 1836; correspondence with the government of Mexico

Date: May 14, 1836

Item Type: Text

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Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Arkansa Territory: Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States

Records of silver mining companies, Real de Batopilas, Mexico

"Mexico. and Guatimala. Corrected from original information communicated by Simon A.G. Bourne Esq."

Embroidered sampler

Cotton Book 1830

Pap boat

Peter Parley's Geography for Children: with nine maps and seventy-five engravings.

Voz de la Patria, Tomo 2, Numero 19, Lunes 29 de Marzo de 1830

Fredonia or the United States of North America; including also Cabotia, or the Canadian Provinces; the Western Territory to the Pacific Ocean; and the northern part of the Mexican States.

[Letter from Austin with Map]

[Document Regarding the Treaty of Limits]

Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee

Estado libre de Coahuila y Tejas

The Elementary Spelling Book

New Map of Texas, with the contiguous American & Mexican States

Article on balloons (aerial navigation)

Letter to Sam Houston

"Esh-Tah-Hum-Leah, or the Sleepy Eye: A Sioux Chief

Receipt to Joseph Kilgore

Segundo Calendario Portatil de Ignacio Cumplido, Para el ano de 1837, Arreglado al meridiano de Mexico.

Treaty of Velasco

[Repayment of Loan to the Provisional Government of Texas with Land]

Surrender of Santa Anna

"Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Reports from the Secretaries of State and War, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th instant."