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[Accounts of D.M. O'Connor Estate: September - November 1900]

Ledger documenting general business transactions for the estate of D.M. O'Connor, including payments made by the estate, the completion of sales, salaries for work, and other estate business.

Date: 1900-09-20/1900-11-09

Creator: Howard, George; Carsner, C. F. & O'Connor, Martin

Item Type: Book

Partner: Texas Coastal Bend Collection

Austin, Texas, illustrated : famous capital city of the lone star state

From the title page: Austin Illustrated. A short resume of the history of the Capital of Texas, together with descriptions of its business, homes, churches, schools, climate, and general environments.

Date: 1900

Item Type: Book

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Baby George Harris]

Photograph of baby George Harris. He is wearing a white outfit, sitting on a wooden chair.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Midwestern State University

[A Beautiful Drive]

Postcard of a road through trees in Beaumont, Texas with the caption, "A Beautiful Drive, Beaumont, Texas." In the far distance down the road is possibly an automobile.

Date: [1900..1952]

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Tyrrell Historical Library

Biographical sketch of General Mirabeau B. Lamar

Manuscript (reproduction) about Mirabeau B. Lamar, written by Edward Fontaine his personal secretary. Original manuscript dates from 1857.

Date: 1900

Creator: Fontaine, Edward

Item Type: Book

Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Boy with Horse]

Photograph of an unknown boy posing with a horse. The boy is a possible Zuber family member. The bottom of the photograph reads "Pope, Photographer."

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Midwestern State University

[Cleburne Paint Company Store]

Copy print of a man in a horse-drawn wagon outside the Cleburne Paint Company store. Two men are standing between the store and the wagon including James Ganong (left). The building is a small, one-story brick building with a decorative roofline including overhanging eaves and eave returns on the gable ends. There are large vertical signs across the storefront and horizontal signs above the porch. More information is printed on the back.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 32.347072 -97.386680

Partner: Johnson County Historical Commission

[Collection of Paper Doll Girls and Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images include young girls, young women, and adult women in fashionable dresses; two (identical) girls have only upper bodies).

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Image

Partner: McFaddin-Ward House Museum

[Collection of Paper Doll Pieces]

Collection of paper doll figures, accessories, and accompanying pieces that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images include a young girl, women, and furniture.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Image

Partner: McFaddin-Ward House Museum

[Collection of Paper Doll Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images are all young ladies and adult women in fashionable dresses; one of the dolls is missing her head.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Image

Partner: McFaddin-Ward House Museum

[Collection of Paper Doll Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images are all adult women in fashionable dresses.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Image

Partner: McFaddin-Ward House Museum

[Collection of Paper Doll Women]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images are all adult women in fashionable dresses.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Image

Partner: McFaddin-Ward House Museum

[Collection of Paper Dolls]

Collection of paper doll figures that have been cut out of magazines and journals. The images include young girls and children as well as adult women in fashionable dresses and men in dressing gowns.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Image

Partner: McFaddin-Ward House Museum

Cotton Gin "Old Red", Richardson, Texas

Cotton gin, two-story wooden frame building. Four 2-horsedrawn wagons containing cotton. 15 men visible. Telephone pole in foreground. Numerous outbuildings. Additional information: Telephone service in Richardson was established in 1900.

Date: 1900

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Richardson Public Library

[Damaged Schoolhouse Photograph]

Framed photograph of Buffalo Gap schoolhouse attendants. Top row 3rd from left, holding a book, is Lewis Walker Vardeman. The photograph is damaged with the right portion ripped and various chunks missing around the edges.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Midwestern State University

The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days

"This reminiscence of a Texas pioneer summarizes the decades from the early settlements by U.S. immigrants in Texas until he left the region as the sectional conflict was beginning.”

Date: 1900

Creator: Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899 & Donaldson, Nanna Smithwick

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Libraries

The fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the First Presbyterian Church, Austin, Texas, May 26 and 27th, 1900

A book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First Presbyterian Church of Austin.

Date: 1900

Creator: First Presbyterian Church

Item Type: Book

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Franklin and Myrtis Wedding Day]

Photograph of Franklin and Myrtis Patterson on their wedding day. The couple is sitting in a horse-drawn buggy.

Date: June 24, 1900

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Midwestern State University

[Galveston City Company Document Index]

Index to various Galveston City Company accounts, starting with a list at the start of ledgers containing minutes, wills, inventories, bonds and oaths, return sales, and annual & final accounts. Personal accounts are listed alphabetically by last name with various notations and columns labeled W, I, Br O, R S, and Accts. Newspaper clippings at the front of the ledger list all of the victims killed during the hurricane that happened September 8, 1900.

Date: 1900~

Creator: Galveston City Company

Item Type: Book

Partner: Stewart Title Company

Geologic Atlas of the United States: Uvalde Folio, Texas

This atlas contains three colored maps from the quadrangle region around Uvalde (Culberson County) and Zavalla (Angelina County), Texas including historical geography, topography, and structure sections. The illustrated text of the atlas discusses the geological elevation of the area, provides in-depth breakdown of the kinds of rocks and minerals as well as other features of the region, and includes economic geology, agriculture and cattle raising information.

Date: 1900

Creator: United States. Department of the Interior.

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Libraries

[Grandparents]

Photograph of Lillian Place Patterson's grandparents. The couple is standing in front of their home.

Date: 1900~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Midwestern State University

Henry William Coit and family, Renner, Texas

Photograph of 9 people standing on a steam tractor or attached gang plow. 2 women, three children, 4 men. The woman standing farthest right is veiled. The rear of the tractor is visible, in a partially plowed field. 2 women, 2 man, and 1 child (girl) are holding levers used to raise and lower the plows.

Date: 1900/1910

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Richardson Public Library

Historical Geology Sheet: Texas Uvalde Quadrangle

This areal map shows the topography, contour elevations, and a breakdown of the kinds of rocks and minerals found in the Uvalde Texas quadrangle region. The map contains a legend that represents with line patterns the surface contour of the region and the kinds of sedimentary rocks and minerals from diverse geological eras.

Date: April 1900

Creator: United States. Dept. of the Interior.

Item Type: Map

Partner: UNT Libraries

[Home of J. Frank Keith]

Postcard of J. Frank Keith's home, Arbol Grande, on Calder Avenue. In the foreground is a utility pole. Printed on the bottom of the postcard is " 'Arbol Grande" and printed at the top is "Beaumont, Tex." Printed on the back of the postcard is the following information regarding the postcard's creation: "Tom Jones, Cincinnati, O" and "For 'Szafirs,' Stationers, Beaumont, Tex." Handwritten on the back of the postcard, "Hello Miss V. & saw your brother this morning. Why didnt you come to (?) … more

Date: [1900..1929]

Creator: Tom Jones, Cincinnati, O

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Tyrrell Historical Library

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