[Freedmens First Vote - Palestine, Texas]
Date: c. 1866
Creator: unknown
Description: This is a photo of the first Anderson County Courthouse the day of the Freedmen's First Vote. Notice the voters' horses tied to the railing and the Union guards watching over them to prevent opposition from taking or harming them.
Contributing Partner: Palestine Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10047/
Merchants and Manufacturers' Collection Bureau.
Date: unknown
Creator: Merchants and Manufacturers' Collection Bureau
Description: Pamphlet from the Merchants and Manufacturers' Collection Bureau with two entries, one for John Malone and one for John Denys.
Contributing Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth188871/
The Texas Almanac for 1858
Date: 1857
Creator: unknown
Description: The almanac covers general topics about the state of Texas including statistics for individual counties, agriculture, expenditures, and weather, as well as discussions of legal and social issues of the time.
Contributing Partner: Texas State Historical Association
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123764/
The Texas Almanac for 1863
Date: January 1862
Creator: unknown
Description: The almanac covers general topics about the state of Texas including statistics for individual counties, agriculture, expenditures, and weather, as well as discussions of legal, political and social issues of the time.
Contributing Partner: Texas State Historical Association
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123769/
The Texas Almanac, for 1860, with Statistics, Historical and Biographical Sketches, &c., Relating to Texas.
Date: 1860~
Creator: The Galveston News
Description: The almanac covers general topics about the state of Texas including statistics for individual counties, agriculture, expenditures, and weather, as well as discussions of legal and social issues of the time.
Contributing Partner: Texas State Historical Association
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123766/
[Cover sheet for Castro's Correspondence]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Cover sheet for Castro's Correspondence regarding the court cases Huth vs. Castro and Huth vs. Castro in Bexar District Court.
Contributing Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth188822/
[Document authorizing Louis Huth to act as need for the benefit of the colonists of Castroville]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Document authorizing [Louis Huth] to act as need for the benefit of the colonists of [Castroville].
Contributing Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth188824/
[Questions to be put to Mr. Montel]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Questions to be asked of Mr. [Charles de] Montel regarding the character, reputation and actions of Louis Huth during the settlement of Castroville.
Contributing Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth188823/
[Document stating that Huth no longer works for Castro, October 16, 1846]
Date: October 16, 1846
Creator: Van Dessel, Charles
Description: Document notice stating that Huth no longer works for Castro or the Texas Colonisation Company of Antwerp and that interested parties should contact Castro directly.
Contributing Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth188815/
Virgil Oliver - first "Negro" in South to serve on jury
Date: May 8, 1953
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Description: View of a jury - 4 men standing, 3 men sitting in jury box. Virgil Oliver, seated at right, was first "Negro" in the South to serve on a jury.
Contributing Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18881/