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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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Portrait of Reverend Charles Gillette]

Description: Photograph of Reverend Charles Gillette from St. David's Episcopal Church. He is wearing a black outfit with a white collar and is looking towards the camera.
Date: 1856/1866
Partner: St. David’s Episcopal Church

[Drawing of the Governor's Mansion]

Description: Photograph of an illustration of the Governor's Mansion in 1856.
Date: 1856
Creator: John P. G. McKenzie
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Broadside advertisement for Denton land]

Description: Photograph of a broadside advertisement for Denton land, held by UNT Special Collections as part of the Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection. The advertisement boasts of information that is "Safe and Profitable Investment For Capitalists or Colonists wanting land for immediate occupancy," and has a section of what is for sale which includes three bold sections: The Land Has Recently Been Divided Into Tracts of 160 Acres, The Soil Is Generally a Deep Rich Sandy Mulatto Loam, and $2 per Acr… more
Date: December 1, 2017
Creator: Sylve, Joshua & Merrill, Jeffery
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mary Smith McNabb]

Description: Salted paper photograph of "Mary Smith McNabb, first wife of John McNabb and mother of Alexander McNabb, Sr. perhaps about 1856-1860 or earlier. Birthday unknown. Died May 9, 1860. Her remains were moved from the family cemetery northwest of Rosenberg to Morton Cemetery in Richmond in the Spring of 1974." as was written in blue ink on the back of the picture. Photograph is of a woman with her dark hair parted on the side and pulled back in a bun at the nape of her neck. She is wearing a dark dr… more
Date: 1856
Partner: Fort Bend Museum
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