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[Jasper County, Texas Tax Roll: 1848]

Description: Tax rolls for Jasper County, Texas documenting real and personal properties taxed during the year 1848. Information includes land plot(s) and owner's name, the acreage and assessed value for each property, additional assets, taxes assessed by the state and county, and other relevant details.
Date: 1848
Creator: Jasper County (Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Texas Land Grant]

Description: Land grant for Ira Ellis signed by the governor of the state of Texas. There is a handwritten note from the clerk of Smith County regarding the grant and where it is recorded in the clerk's office about a year after the grant was issued.
Date: June 9, 1848
Creator: United States. Texas.
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Democratic ticket, 1848]

Description: This document is from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is a democratic ticket of candidates from the 1848 election in Tennessee. The ticket includes candidates who ran for seats in the senate and those who ran for seats in the congress.
Date: 1848
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Disturnell's Hudson River guide.

Description: Map shows counties, roads, railroads, cities, and towns along the Hudson River from the Atlantic Ocean to Baker's Falls. Includes distances, text, steamboat and train schedules, and ship and train illustrations; text in panels on left and right of map. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1848..1850]
Creator: Disturnell, John, 1801-1877
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

A New map for travelers through the United States of America showing the railroads, canals & stage roads : With the distances.

Description: Map shows roads, railroads, canals, cities and towns, swamps, state and territorial boundaries, and areas of Native American habitation. Insets: "Railroad & canal routes from Albany to Buffalo," "Map showing the rail roads between the cities of New York, Boston & Albany, and the Hudson R. from N. York to Albany," "Railroad route from New York to Philadelphia," "Railroad route from Philadelphia to Washington," and "Map of Oregon, Northern California, Santa Fe &c." Relief shown by hachures on ins… more
Date: 1848
Creator: Smith, J. Calvin (John Calvin)
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Etats-Unis et nouvelle Bretagne.

Description: Map shows mid-nineteenth century geography, political lines, territories, and cities in the United States and most of Canada and Mexico. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:19,008,000].
Date: [1848..1852]
Creator: Antoine, Louis
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Transcript of Letter to George L. Hammeken, June 9, 1848]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter to George L. Hammeken, in which the sender describes the provenance of the seven-hundred dollars that were originally enclosed in the letter, and provides a list of items that Mrs. Perry wants Hammeken to purchase and/or have made, including a wax impression of Gen. Austin's seal which Mrs. Perry wants to have engraved on the items she has requested. Lastly, there are further directions for any remaining sum.
Date: June 9, 1848
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Skeleton map showing the Rail Roads completed and in progress in the United States, and those projected through the Public Lands and their connection with the principal harbours on the Lakes and on the Seaboard [Sheet 1].

Description: Map shows the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, major cities, and constructed and contemplated railroads during the mid-nineteenth century. Southern portion of map indicates proposed shipping routes to points in the West Indies and Middle America. Scale [ca. 1:3,400,000].
Date: 1848
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Farmer's Tale

Description: Handwritten autobiographical manuscript describing the author's thoughts and memories, starting with notes about the his father who was a farmer in Virginia. There appear to be several sections, including one labeled "To my MOTHER November 1st 1848"; that section is also signed by C. B. Moore. A portion of the pages near the lower-right corner is missing and several pages at the end of the booklet are blank. Some text on the cover is repeated on the first page.
Date: 1848~
Creator: Moore, Charles B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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