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[Name Card for Mrs. R. R Beville]

Description: Card with the text "Mrs. R. R. Beville, Waco, Texas" printed to the right of an illustration above the text "Waco Commandery No. 10 K. T." The image is oval-shaped with a shining star at the top, above a fringed banner that has the text "in hoc signo vinces" with a skull-and-crossbonees and the freemasonry compass symbol; in the foreground of the image, there is a crown on laurel leaves with items leaning crosswise through the crown including a cross (left) and two decorative daggers (right).
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Writing and heraldry underneath pins and discs on a harp's neck]

Description: Photograph of writing underneath pins and discs on a harp's neck. The top line of text says "Sebastian Eraro's" while the second line reads "Patent," followed by a glyph, and "4996." The third line says "18. Great Marlborough Street London. To the left of the lines of text is the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, made up by a crowned crest flanked by a lion and a unicorn, below which is a ribbon of paper that has upon it the latin words "dieu et mon driot." This harp is one of multiple … more
Date: 2014-09~
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Drawings. Selected and Executed by T. V. Munson

Description: Bound blank book containing 16 illustrations of plants, insects, sea shells, and a bird that are identified by Latin binomial nomenclature, often with a common-name label as well. The images are a mix of color and pencil-only and each one has a tissue page to separate it from the previous page. Two images include more information, indicating that they were drawn in 1872.
Date: 1872~
Creator: Munson, T. V. (Thomas Volney), 1843-1913
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Dallas Historical Society

[Millionth volume added to Willis Library]

Description: Photograph of a page from the millionth volume to be added to the NTSU Library. The page is worn around the edges and on it are illuminations and a song in Latin with the notes above the words. At the top of the page is an inscription that reads "S. Benedicti M. V." and on the back of the print is a handwritten note that reads "A. M. Willis, Jr. Library Library's 1,000,000th volume".
Date: September 1974
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Mappa geographica complectens, I. Indiae occidentalem, II. Isthmum Panamensem, III. Ichnographiam præcipuorum locorum & portuum ad has terras pertinentium : Desumta omnia ex Historia Insulæ S. Dominici & pro præsenti statu belli, quod est 1740 inter Anglos & Hispanos exortum.

Description: Map shows European possessions, cities, settlements, and notable physical features; fortification, streets, buildings, and harbor layout for cities in mid-eighteenth century Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Includes keys to select points on city maps, color key to European possessions. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Scales not given.
Date: 1740
Creator: Homann Erben (Firm)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mappa geographica complectens, I. Indiae occidentalem, II. Isthmum Panamensem, III. Ichnographiam præcipuorum locorum & portuum ad has terras pertinentium : Desumta omnia ex Historia Insulæ S. Dominici & pro præsenti statu belli, quod est 1740 inter Anglos & Hispanos exortum.

Description: Map shows European possessions, cities, settlements, and notable physical features; fortification, streets, buildings, and harbor layout for cities in mid-eighteenth century Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Includes keys to select points on city maps, color key to European possessions. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Scales not given.
Date: 1740
Creator: Homann Erben (Firm)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Vetus Mexico.

Description: Map shows birdseye Venice-like view of Mexico City surrounded by Lake Texcoco. Includes key to points on the map. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1671
Creator: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Pervviae avriferae regionis typus.

Description: Map shows portion of Central America, northwestern South America, southern United States, and coast of Tamaulipas in Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Scales differ.
Date: 1584
Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

America Septentrionalis : concinnata juxta observationes Dñn Academiae Regalis Scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum, et juxta annotationes recentissimas.

Description: Map shows known extent of North America from Greenland and Baffin Bay to New Spain and Panama; northern coast of South America, the West indies, California, and the Sargasso Sea; explorers' routes along the Pacific coast of California and New Spain, and areas of Native American habitation. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1758..1760]
Creator: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Americae septentrionalis pars I.

Description: Map shows "Louisania" [French Louisiana], "Tecas" [Texas], New Navare and New Mexico, "Great Space of Land unknown," settlements, and areas of Native American habitation. Inset: [Map of Baffin's Bay, Hudson's Bay and adjacent lands]; in upper left corner: "This scale is half of the other." Includes dates and names of explorers. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not indicated.
Date: [1750..1770]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Hispaniae novae sivae magnae, recens et vera descripto 1579.

Description: Map shows Pacific Coast of the central portion of New Spain with large lake and four named islands (with numbered key) in upper left corner and "Notularum circa Mexico explanatio" in the lower right corner; title cartouche in upper right corner, secondary cartouche in lower left corner. Includes lettered key to cities, "Notularum circa Mexico explanatio," and small illustrations of sailing vessels. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1579
Creator: Ortelius, Abraham
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Nueva Hispania tabula nova.

Description: Map shows known geography, rivers, and settlements in late sixteenth century New Spain [Mexico]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not shown.
Date: 1598
Creator: Ruscelli, Girolamo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Nueva Hispania tabula nova.

Description: Map shows known geography, rivers, and settlements in early sixteenth century New Spain [Mexico]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:19,000,000].
Date: 1564
Creator: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Nova Mexico.

Description: Map shows a late seventeenth century "Nova Mexico" settlement. Streets and buildings are visible in the settlement and there are Native Americans, Spanish landlords, and domestic animals depicted in the foreground. Includes legend. Scale not given.
Date: 1671
Creator: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Cvliacanae, Americae regionis, descriptio :b Hispaniolae, Cvbae, aliarvmqve insvlarvm circvmiacientivm, delineatio.

Description: Map in upper half shows late sixteenth century geography and cities in the state of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico. Map in lower half shows late sixteenth century geography and cities in the West Indies. Relief shown pictorially. Scales not given.
Date: [1581..1587]
Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Amplissimæ regionis Mississipi seu provinciæ Ludovicianæ a R. P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss in America Septentrionali anno 1687. detectæ, nunc Gallorum coloniis et actionum negotiis toto orbe celeberrimæ nova tabula.

Description: Map shows areas of Native American habitation, settlements, and explorers' routes to 1716, through French Louisiana, Florida, New England and the British colonies, part of Canada, Nouveau Mexique [New Mexico] and northeastern portion of New Spain. Three of the Great Lakes are also shown. Includes legend and illustrations. Insets [illustrations]: "Catarrhacta ad Niagarum [Niagara Falls]," [Father Louis], and [Buffalo pictured with Native Americans]. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Scal… more
Date: [1759..1781]
Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mappa Geographica Regionen Mexicanam et Floridam Terrague adjacentes: ut et Anteriores Americæ Insulas, Cursus itidem et reditus Navigantium versus flumen Missisipi et alias Colonias of ocidos ponens.

Description: Map shows cities, towns, and geographical details of Mexico, the West Indies, and Florida as known during the mid-eighteenth century. Insets: "Bahia Portus Belli," "Tractus bahiæ et civitatis Havana" (ca.1:135,000), "Tractus civitatis Carthagena Castel ejus" (ca 1: 125,000), and "La vera cruz" (ca. 1:86,000). Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1: 9,350,000].
Date: 1760?
Creator: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae, Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae, Pensylvaniae, necnon insvlarvm archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali..

Description: Map shows cities, towns, and geographical details of Mexico, the West Indies, and Florida as known during the late eighteenth century. Includes historical notes. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:1,000,000].
Date: [1759..1784]
Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Regni Mexicani seu Novæ Hispaniae, Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae, Pensylvaniae, necnon insularum archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali.

Description: Map shows major settlements and areas of Native American habitation, political boundaries for French Canada, French Louisiana, the British colonies, New Spain, and the West Indies. Includes historical notes and illustrations of ships, sea battles, mining activity and indigenous peoples. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:1,000,000].
Date: [1712..1730]
Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Amplissimae regionis Mississipi seu provinciae Ludovicianae a R. P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss in America Septentrionali anno 1687 detectae, nunc Gallorum coloniis et actionum negotiis toto orbe celeberrimae nova tabula.

Description: Map shows areas of Native American habitation, settlements, and explorers' routes to 1716, through French Louisiana, Florida, New England and the British colonies, part of Canada, Nouveau Mexique [New Mexico] and northeastern portion of New Spain. Three of the Great Lakes are also shown. Includes legend and illustrations. Insets [illustrations]: "Catarrhacta ad Niagarum [Niagara Falls]," [Father Louis], and [Buffalo pictured with Native Americans]. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Scal… more
Date: [1759..1781]
Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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