4 Matching Results

Search Results

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.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

United States, North America : Northern limit of slavery in Western States shown by Mason & Dixon's Line.

Description: Map shows Mason and Dixon's line from California to Arkansas, state and territorial boundaries, major cities and towns, areas of Indian habitation, and notable geographical features; Washington, Oregon, Nebraska, Kansas, and Indian territories, New Mexico, Utah, Texas, and California. Includes notes. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 11,000,000].
Date: [1854..1861]
Creator: W. & R. Chambers Ltd.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

de Zavala Park [Statement]

Description: Statement describing a plan to create "De Zavala Park" in Harris County including a monument remembering Lorenzo de Zavala at the location of his home and grave. The statement includes background about de Zavala and the memorial plans, with a call to contact Representative Albert Thomas to support the plan.
Date: January 1964
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
Back to Top of Screen