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[AAA State Finalists 1969]

Description: Program for the Columbia-Brazoria Booster Club's 22nd annual Football Banquet honoring the Columbia Roughnecks.
Date: 1969
Creator: Brazoria County News

[Sell Yourself Successful by Cliff Long]

Description: Document of Cliff Long's "Sell Yourself Successful," a book regarding Long's attitude toward life. He shares his views on what he believes is successful in life as a salesman and wants to share what he has learned throughout his life. He believes people can become successful from any starting point as he was first a farm boy and then turned into a sales manager.
Date: [1877..1939]
Creator: Long, Cliff

[Tex Tan's Trees]

Description: Document of an article from the Tex Tan Western Leather Co. about the different types of trees and the varieties of trees it can be covered by. The article explains the anatomy of a tree as well as the sizes and styles that can be provided for a horse. An advertisement of the costs of the trees is also present with the inventory being displayed as a wholesale item.
Date: [1877..1939]
Creator: Tex Tan Western Leather Company

[Three Rs and an L]

Description: Document of a photocopied article written by John Furneaux regarding the leatherworking courses in Yoakum's high schools. The students receive school credit from the classes and have a high-interest rate for both boys and girls. After the students graduate from the course, the students will receive a kit of tools that will let them pursue their leatherworking skills in the future.
Date: [1877..1939]
Creator: Furneaux, John

[Leather Bound Town]

Description: Document of an article and images of advertisements in the Yoakum Herald Times. The article is the recent news about how Yoakum is known for its leather industry and the Tex Tan Western Leather Company. The images are the new sales in Yoakum, creating a break in the reading, and the article continues to state the growth of Tex Tan and its success in its production of leather goods.
Date: August 15, 1974

[Transcript for A. J. Underwood diary, December 16, 1861-December 18, 1862 - Pt. 3]

Description: Transcript for A. J. Underwood diary, December 16th, 1861 to December 18th, 1862, detailing military fellows, role as a sharpshooter, friends, daily activities, correspondences, and transactions. This item (p. 102-193) covers September 15th through December 18th, 1862.
Date: 1861-12-16/1862-12-18
Creator: Underwood, Adoniram Judson (A. J.)

[Folsom State Prison ledger]

Description: Loose pages from a ledger documenting prisoners at Folsom State Prison, organized by prisoner number (8091-8186) and including mugshots with handwritten notes listing names, years imprisoned and crime(s), dates received and discharged/paroled, and other relevant information.
Date: 1911-09-08/1912-01-09
Creator: Folsom State Prison
Location: 38.696026 -121.163726

[Haebler Incunabula Plate 12]

Description: Plate 12- Augsburg, Johann Schoensperger, 1490, Type 2 and 3
Date: 1490
Creator: Schoensperger, Johann & Haebler, Konrad

[Manuscript Leaf 14th Century, Italy]

Description: A leaf from bookbinding recovered and repaired from Italy, ca. 1300. Displays 2 columns, with marginal glosses. Includes text from Justinian's Digesta. Repaired with vellum at an unknown date.
Date: 1300

[Manuscript Leaf from the 14th Century, Italy]

Description: An Italian manuscript leaf from the 14th century, estimated ca. 1350. The spread is laid out as 2 leaves sewn together, indicating recovery from a book that was bound. Notable is the presence of vellum strengthener along the gutter margin with a possible 11th-century inscription of Psalms 103 et seq.
Date: 1350~

[Manuscript Leaf 12th Century, France]

Description: A previously bound leaf approximately 12th-century.Text from a Lectionary (?) with text from the Life of Saint Gregory of Spoleto. The words Gregory and martyr appear in red ink. Late romanesque book hand. Seven line initial "T" in yellow on a blue background outlined in red, with a small winged dragon. Recovered from a bookbinding.
Date: 1150~

[17th Century Spanish Carta Excutoria]

Description: Opening page of a 17th century Spanish Baroque Carta executoria, providing geological evidence of aristocratic lineage with no trace of peasant, Jewish or Moorish blood. More than simply asserting one's high standing, such documents exempted the holder from civil suits and taxation. Carta executoria were often ostentatiously illuminated (as here), to suggest the wealth and taste of the grantee. Displays large intricate initial "D" (i.e. Don Carlos, King of Spain from 1665 - 1700) in the form of… more
Date: 1696

[Manuscript Leaf 15th Century, Northern Netherlands]

Description: 15th-century Book of Hours originating from the Nothern Netherlands [Utrecht], ca. 1430s. Dutch text from the Long Hours of the Cross displayed in single column, 19 lines, gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, capitals struck with red, eight one-line initials in red or blue, verso with one three-line initial in burnished gold embellished with red penwork and extensions' full border composed of a vertical bar border of burnished gold and blue with white tracery, the bars with hairline stems emanatin… more
Date: [1430..1439]

[Leaf from a Miniature Bible, Mid 13th Century, France]

Description: A leaf from a miniature Bible in Latin from France, ca. 1250-1275. Text organized in 2 columns, gothic script (texualis formata) and displays 1 Chronicles 23-25. A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggests the manuscript was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Practice," Celtica, 5 [1960], 13-16). Note also that the chapter numbers were added later (standardization was begun i… more
Date: [1250..1275]

[Book of Hours Leaf from the Mid 15th Century, France]

Description: France [Valence], mid-15th century. Text displayed in single column, bâtarde hand. Rubrics in pink, two two-line initials in gold and colors, and with a miniature of Matthew and his angel, enclosed by a rounded gilt frame as well with a border on three sides, the border containing acanthus leaves, hairline vines with gold dots, and trefoils, the same border on the outer margin of the other side of the leaf. The artist here has depicted Matthew in the act of writing. Matthew sits with his back t… more
Date: [1450..1500]

[Leaf from a 15th Century Breviary, French or Italian]

Description: A miniature Breviary from the 15th C. including sermons and readings, on 2 Luke: "sermo euangelicus qui praecedit narrat qualiter dominus centurionis puerem obentu magnae eius fiidei sanauerit, et quomodo ipsius centurionis, immoin eo gentium, extulerit fidem."Also "Eternus arque invsibilis rerum conditor, humanum genus quod per longa seculi cranseuntis sparia mortis perpetua."
Date: [1401..1500]

[Bible Leaf with Text from 1st Maccabee, 13th Century]

Description: A leaf from a Bible in Latin (France or England, ca. 1230-1260) containing text from 1 Maccabees 1 et seq. ("Et factum est postquam percussit Alexander Philippi Macedo"). Text displayed as 2 columns, gothic script (texualis formata). A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggest the MS was written "below top line" which suggests the MS was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Pra… more
Date: [1230..1260]

[Leaf from 13th Century Bible]

Description: A leaf from a Latin Bible from England or France, ca. 1220-1240. Text from the end of Jonah 4, and Micha 1-3 is displayed in 2 columns, gothic scripts (texuais formata). A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggests the MS was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Practice," Celtica, 5 [1960] 13-16). Note also that the chapter numbers were added later (standardization was begun in… more
Date: [1220..1240]

[Manuscript Leaf from the 15th Century, France]

Description: A small and simple French Breviary with sermons, readings, and responses on Corinthians from the 15th-century. Text is displayed in 2 columns, gothic script. Embellishments are done in red and blue ink throughout the margins and text-breaking letters. The number 84 is noted on the top left of the recto.
Date: [1401..1500]
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