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Mite

Description: The 1st printing of The Mite was produced in 1891, and was at the time the smallest book in the world printed with movable type. This 2nd printing was produced in 1893, and a third printing was done in 1896. The text, a collection of facts and information, is supplemented with various illustrations. In 1896, Salmin of Padova, Italy, printed their Galileo A Madama Christina Di Lorena, which supplanted The Mite as the smallest book in the world printed with movable type. It may still, howeve… more
Date: 1893
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Blank Subscription]

Description: Note written by Charles B. Moore discussing his life and how the boycott affected his work as a millwright and how he finds more freedom as a farmer with the help of his wife and daughter. Other side of the page is an order form for a book: The Cyclopedic Review of Current History, to be published in 1893.
Date: 1893
Creator: Moore, Charles B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from R. L. Landers to Charles B. Moore, March 3, 1891]

Description: Letter from R. L. Landers to Charles More in which Mr. Laners lists their mutual friends and reports on who is still living and who is deceased. He discusses his own family and their recent baby. He also writes about the scarcity of game "down on Sabina['s] old place." Mr. Landers served as the sheriff and later as a Justice of the Peace in Arkansas. He states that he wished he had joined Charles Moore in Texas. The weather, crop production and price, and sale of hogs and cattle are detailed.
Date: March 3, 1893
Creator: Landers, R. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Birdie and Dinkie McGee to Mary, Linnet, and Charles B. Moore, March 10,1893]

Description: Letter from Birdie McGee to her cousin Linnet detailed Birdie and her grandmother's shared birthday celebration. The letter from Dinkie McGee to Mary and Charles Moore gave details on the health of several members of the family; the weather; the cost of crops; and the cutting of carpet rags. Included is a note saying that pieces of Birdie's dresses would be included. The smaller pieces are from Birdie's dress and the larger piece from a dress for Dinkie.
Date: March 10, 1893
Creator: McGee, Birdie & McGee, Dinkie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Linen petticoat

Description: Petticoat of off-white linen. Full-length, with plain waistband with drawstring waist. Gathered into waist at sides and back, flat at front. Near Above hem are 4 horizontal pin-tucks. Below pin-tucks is wide added flounce of same material with embroidered hem with triangular "points". Embroidered initials at center front: "NHE" Described as a trousseau petticoat.
Date: 1893
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Scouting, Volume 66, Number 3, May-June 1978

Description: Bi-monthly publication of the Boy Scouts of America, written for Boy Scout leaders, officials, and others interested in the work of the Scouts. It includes articles about events and activities, updates from the national headquarters, topical columns and essays, and news from various chapters nationwide. A table of contents appears on page 3.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum

Map of the Argentine Republic

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Argentine Republic political subdivisions, major cities, railroads, and "territory submitted for arbitration to President Cleveland." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [1:6,370,000].
Date: 1893
Creator: Norris Peters Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the Mexican National R.R.

Description: Map shows Mexican National Railroad and railroad connections to that line through the lower United States and north central Mexico; major cities in various Mexican states, cities and towns along Mexican National Railroad; steamship lines along the Pacific and Gulf coasts. Includes text detailing the Mexican National Railroad and tables of comparative distances, rates, and points of interest. Insets: "Mexico and Vicinity" and [profile of relative elevations from Mexico City to Nuevo Laredo]. Rel… more
Date: 1893
Creator: American Bank Note Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Wedding shoes

Description: Wedding shoes of off-white or champagne satin. The shoes have rounded toes, and no ornamentation. The medium-high heel is set under, is rounded at back and sides and curved at front, tapers to center and then swells to base, and is covered with matching satin; it has the same natural brown colored leather on the heel's cap and on the soles of the shoes. Stamped inside both shoes: "2 D13583" Measurements: Length: 22 cm Width: 5.5cm Height: 11cm Heel: 4cm (1 1/2") high on axis w/cap
Date: 1893/1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Glass Axe

Description: Clear glass axe or hatchet, made at the Libbey Glass Company display as a souvenir of the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. One side of blade with relief inscription "World's Fair / 1893"; other side of blade with relief portrait of George Washington, and inscription "The Father Of His Country". Handle with relief inscription near base: "Libbey Glass Co / Toledo, Ohio."
Date: 1896
Creator: Libbey Glass Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Chaney Family]

Description: Photograph of the Chaney family of Longview, Texas. Mr. Robert R. Chaney and Mrs. Mary Ellen Johnson Chaney are pictured with three of their unidentified children. The family moved from Longview to Lometa, Texas some time between 1900-1910, but later moved their family of nine children back to Longview.
Date: 1893~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Longview Public Library

[Stock Records: 1893]

Description: Ledger documenting stock accounts, including sales, bills, expenses, merchandise, and other financial balance information.
Date: 1893-02-01/1893-08-31
Creator: O'Connor, Dennis Martin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Texas Coastal Bend Collection
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