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[Pages from 'The Piazza Tales']

Description: Photographs of pages in "The Piazza Tales" held by UNT Special Collections. In the first image the edges of the pages are aged and there are stains on the pages. There is also a white weighted string holding down the corner of a page. In image 2 the edges of the pages are discolored with age and there are stains on the pages. There is also a white weighted string holding down the corners of the pages. The plastic book cradle that it is resting on is visible beneath it. There is a handwritten no… more
Date: October 9, 2014
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Map of the United States and territories: showing the possessions and aggressions of the slave power.

Description: Map shows slave holding [dark shaded], non-slave holding [unshaded], and disputed territorries [grayed] parts of the United States during the decade before Civil War. The "Missouri Compromise" is indicated with a parallel line extending from the northern Arkansas border to California. No scale indicated. Political representation of slave holding, non-slave holding, and territories is also indicated. This broadside was printed and distributed in support of 1856 Republican Party presidential cand… more
Date: 1856
Creator: Bloss, William C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Central America.

Description: Map shows railroads, steamship routes and mileage, mineral resources, cities and towns, and provincial divisions within each country; separate entities of Guatemala, Verapaz, Belize, San Salvador; Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Veragua [Santiago], and Panama; the Caribbean Sea as far as Jamaica and the southern part of Cuba. Includes portrait of General Walker. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca.1: 3,900,000].
Date: 1856
Creator: Morse & Gaston.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Report of the Standing Committee of Murchison Lodge No. 80

Description: Financial report of the Standing Committee of the Murchison Lodge No. 80 from January 1856 to December 1856. The report includes a summary of recommendations by the committee members, "John Harrell," "T. H. Streich," and "J. M[..]lly,"and a list of the dues from each member, the amount in arrears, and the cash on hand for the organization.
Date: December 6, 1856
Creator: Harrell, John & Streich, T. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: Friench Simpson Memorial Library

Diagram: of Tampa Land District: shewing those townships in which swamp land lists have been sent up, also those townships in which lists are in process of examination [Sheet 2].

Description: Map shows areas of Seminole Indian habitation, township grid, military posts, coast and keys of southern portion of mid-nineteenth century Florida. Includes references to symbols and letters used. Scale not given.
Date: 1856
Creator: A. Hoen & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of public surveys in California.

Description: Map shows mid-nineteenth century California township grid, existing towns, lakes, marshlands, springs, and Native American villages. Includes "description of private grants finally confirmed," and explanation. Scale [1:1,140,480].
Date: 1856
Creator: United States Surveyor General.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the State of Florida : showing the progress of the surveys, accompanying annual report of the Surveyor General for 1856.

Description: Map shows mid-nineteenth century Florida township grid, swamps, prairies, military posts, major roads, cities, towns, and notable physical features; Atlantic and Gulf coast detail and "Indian hunting grounds." Includes references. Scale [ca. 1:760,320].
Date: 1856
Creator: United States Surveyor General
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Arkansas.

Description: Map shows Arkansas township grid, existing towns, swampland, and Indian boundaries during the mid-nineteenth century. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1856
Creator: Arkansas. Land Survey Division.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Parker's sectional & geological map of Iowa : exhibiting her Iron, Lead, Copper,, Coal, and other geological resources and all rail roads completed, in progress, and projected.

Description: Map shows Iowa mineral resources, proposed and existing railroads, township grid, counties, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Includes list of the railroads in Iowa and references. Inset: "Map showing the connections between the Iowa & Eastern Railroads"; list of railroads in Iowa. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:506,880].
Date: 1856
Creator: Parker, Nathan H. (Nathan Howe)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Eastern Kansas.

Description: Map shows towns, trading posts, military posts, roads, trails, government reservations, mill and structure locations, and locations of Native American tribes and villages. Insets: "Ruins of Eldridge House, Lawrence, Kansas, destroyed May 21st 1856," "Constitution Hall, Topeka, Kansas," and "Eldridge House, Lawrence, Kansas." Includes explanations and illustrations of notable buildings. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:500,000].
Date: 1856
Creator: Whitman, E. B. (Edmund Burke), 1812-1883
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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