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"Houston, Texas"

"Houston, Texas"

Date: 1866-10-27
Creator: Davis, Theodore R.
Description: From "Harper's Weekly." This item includes a sketch of Houston, Texas and the text on the reverse of the clipping.
Holding Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
Johnson's Texas.

Johnson's Texas.

Date: 1866
Creator: Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett), 1827-1884.
Description: Hand drawn color-shaded map showing counties, cities, rivers, creeks, railroads, roads, and topographical features of Texas as of 1866. Insets of Plan of the northern part of Texas, Plan of Galveston Bay.
Holding Partner: University of North Texas Libraries
Johnson's Texas

Johnson's Texas

Date: [1866]
Creator: Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett), 1827-1884.
Description: Hand drawn color map of Texas showing counties, cities, roads, railroads, creeks and rivers circa 1866. Insets showing Plan of Galveston Bay and Vicinity, and Northern Part of Texas.
Holding Partner: University of North Texas Libraries
J. H. Colton's map of Texas.

J. H. Colton's map of Texas.

Date: 1866
Creator: Colton, J.H.
Description: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington. "41, 42."
Holding Partner: University of North Texas Libraries
Reports of cases argued and decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Texas, during the Austin session, 1866.  Volume 28.

Reports of cases argued and decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Texas, during the Austin session, 1866. Volume 28.

Date: 1869
Creator: Texas. Supreme Court.
Description: Includes Texas Supreme Court case reports from 1866 along with lists of Supreme Court Justices and District Judges, a table of the names of cases included in the volume, and an index. Preface by George W. Paschal discusses the history of the court during and immediately after the Civil War. Four pages of advertising for law books published by W. H. & O. H. Morrison appear before the title page.
Holding Partner: University of North Texas Libraries
[Receipt from the Office of Depot Quarter Master, Austin, TX, for one mule]

[Receipt from the Office of Depot Quarter Master, Austin, TX, for one mule]

Date: 1866-04
Creator: unknown
Description: Seward Papers. Receipt no. 210 to J.N. Martin of St. Louis Co., MO, from the Office of Depot Quarter Master, Austin, TX, for one government mule at $100
Holding Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
[Letter to nephew from Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, October 2, 1866]

[Letter to nephew from Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, October 2, 1866]

Date: 1866-10
Creator: Baylor, R. E. B. (Robert Emmett Bledsoe), 1793-1873
Description: Letter to nephew from R.E.B. Baylor regarding coming to Texas, bringing negro employees, condition of negroes in Independence, and family matters. Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Papers.
Holding Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
Tax receipt dated June 20, 1866.

Tax receipt dated June 20, 1866.

Date: 1866-06-20
Creator: unknown
Description: Tax receipt dated June 20, 1866.
Holding Partner: Fort Bend Museum
The Tracings, Volume 06, Number 03, Fall 1987

The Tracings, Volume 06, Number 03, Fall 1987

Date: 1987-10
Creator: Anderson County Genealogical Society
Description: "The Tracings is the monthly newsletter and the quarterly published by the Anderson County Genealogical Society." The publication contains genealogical information including generation charts, family histories, and lists of records (births, deaths, church records, etc.). Name index begins on page 40.
Holding Partner: Anderson County Genealogical Society
Seward Papers

Seward Papers

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Receipt no. 208 to J.H. Seward, Washington, TX, from the Office of Depot Quarter Master, Austin, TX, for one government mule at $76
Holding Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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