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Americæ Nova descriptio

Description: This map shows the western hemisphere including North and South America and the surrounding areas. Some regions are outlined in color and places, bodies of water, and geographic features are marked pictorially in color. There are several color illustrations of ships and creatures in the oceans. Place names are also noted. Scale [ca. 1:50,000,000].
Date: 1682
Creator: Seile, Anne, d. 1678 & Vaughan, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Waller Family Coat of Arms

Description: Print of the Waller family coat of arms. Painted by Odine Mhoon. Odine was married to Sam Rayburn's nephew Morris Lightfoot in 1956. They divorced and Morris eventually remarried. The ivory colored paper displays the Waller coat of arms in shades of brown, black, gold, gray, white, blue, green and red. A shield at center shows three gold walnut leaves between two silver bands. At the top is a walnut tree with a pendant shoing three fleurs de lis (the arms of France) with the motto above, "… more
Date: 1850/1969
Creator: Odine Mhoon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Prairie Wolf

Description: Colored lithograph by John James Audubon; No. 15, Plate LXXI from Audubon’s “The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America”.
Date: unknown
Creator: Audubon, John James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

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

A map of the East-Indies and the adjacent countries, with the settlements, factories and territories, explaning [sic] what belongs to England, Spain, France, Holland, Denmark, Portugal & c with many remarks not extant in any other map.

Description: Map shows cities and regions for southeast Asia, India, China, and the islands of the Indian Ocean and South Sea including the Bay of Bengal, Bay of Siam; Mindanao, Timor, Java, Sumatra, Ceylon, Formosa, China, India, Siam, and part of Persia; islands of Borneo, New Guinea, and Philippines. Insets: "A Plan of the City of Batavia," "A Plan of Fort St. George and the City of Madras," "A Prospect of the City of Surat," "A Prospect of the City of GOA," and "A Plan of ye City of Bantam." Scale [ca. … more
Date: 1720
Creator: Moll, Herman, d. 1732
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[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

[Presbyterian Merit Plaque]

Description: Photograph of an engraved plaque propped up on cement against the side of a building lined with rocks and shrubs. The plaque reads: "The Synod of Texas, Award of Recognition and Merit Presented to Central Presbyterian Church San Antonio, Texas, For having Assumed Full Responsibility for its own Maintenance and Growth in the Lord, On April 1, 1953 and Thereafter, David L. Stitt, Moderator of Synod, Ruben M. Armendariz, Pastor, Presented April 26, 1953, 'Lux Lucet In Tenebris'". The Latin phrase … more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Dominia Anglorum in praecipuis insulis Americae : ut sunt insula S. Christophori, Antegoa, Iamaica, Barbados (ex insulis Antillicanis) nec non insulae Bermudes vel Sommers dictae : cum privil. sac. caes. majestatis = Die englische Colonie-Laender auf den Insuln von America.

Description: Map shows boundaries for parishes or political subdivisions, roads, cities, towns, plantations, coastal details, and notable physical features. Includes text and explanations of symbols used; key to land grants for Jamaica; translation of English terms into German. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Depths shown by soundings and by shading. Scale not given.
Date: [1730..1750]
Creator: Homann Erben (Firm)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Nova Designatio Insulæ Jamaicae ex Antillanis Americae Septentrion: non postremae Secundum Gubernationes fuas accuratas aeri incisa et publici juris facta.

Description: Map shows early eighteenth century Jamaican "precinct" or parish boundaries, harbors, pastures, churches, settlements, and notable physical features. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by shading and soundings. Scale not given.
Date: [1731..1751]
Creator: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

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

[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

[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
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