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Le nouveau Méxique avec la partie septentrionale de l'ancien ou de la Nouvelle Espagne.

Description: Map shows the late eighteenth century geography, cities, and towns in New Spain [Mexico]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:10,500,000]. Map comes from "Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre" [Atlas of all known parts of the globe] by Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal.
Date: 1780
Creator: Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Etching of a man with coins]

Description: Etching "Portrait of Man", designed Guercino Da Cento and printed by Austrian printmaker Adam Bartsch, in 1782. The print shows a man illustrated with loose and energetic lines standing and pointing at coins resting on a table.
Date: 1782
Creator: Da Cento, Guercino & Bartsch, Adam
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Adam & Eve frontispiece etching]

Description: Etching print included as the frontispiece of a unknown volume printed in 1780. The plate includes a classic biblical image of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden at the moment the snake offers the fruit to Eve. The image includes excellent details of various animals scattered around the pint such as a frog, various insects, birds and a partially hidden cow laying in the tree line.
Date: 1780~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Carte réduite des côtes orientales de l'Amérique septentrionale : Contenant celles des provinces de New-York et de la Nouvelle Angleterre, celles de l'Acadie ou Nouvelle Ecosse, de l'Île Royale de l'Île St. Jean, avec l'interieur du pays.

Description: Map shows settlements, boundaries of American colonies and portions of Lower Canada to the Gulf of the St. Lawrence River. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:1,700,000].
Date: 1780
Creator: France. Dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Jacket and breeches

Description: Man’s coat and breeches of green silk narrow striped embroidered in white and pink floral motif. A) Long coat with covered embroidered buttons and beige silk cuffs with embroidery and covered buttons. Lined in silk satin and linen. B) Breeches of self, drop front, full seat, knee-length.
Date: 1750/1780
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Carte d'une partie de l'Amérique Séptentrionale: qui contient partie de la Nle. Espagne, et de la Louisiane, pour servir aux voyages au tour du monde et vers les deux pôles.

Description: Map shows late eighteenth century geography, towns, and forts in late eighteenth century Mexico. Notes about Native American tribes are also present. The route taken by Monsieur de Pagès while traveling through "Province de los Texas" on a journey from New Orleans to Acapulco is, also, marked. Relief shown pictorially. No scale noted.
Date: 1780?/1789?
Creator: Pagès, Monsieur de, (Pierre Marie Francois), 1748-1793
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

South Carolina

Description: Map of South Carolina at the time of the ratification of the Constitutions, showing counties, townships, towns, water bodies, forts, churches and chapels, houses, roads, swamps, and marshes. A table of the proprietors of land in South Carolina is included in the lower-left corner of the map. There is also an inset map of South Carolina in its entirety, with markings for geographic features as well as major roads, court houses, bridges, and iron works. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:823,… more
Date: 1937
Creator: Faden, William; Stuart, John & Drayton, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Amérique septentrionale.

Description: Map shows major French, English and Spanish settlements on the North American continent, Central America, and the islands of the Caribean. Scale [ca. 1:34,500,000]. Map comes from Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre [Atlas of all known parts of the globe] by Guillaume Raynal.
Date: 1780
Creator: Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Amérique septentrionale.

Description: Map shows major cities along the coasts of North America, Central America, and the Antilles. Native American habitation in some areas of North America are also noted. Hand colored. Scale [ca. 1:37,500,000]. Map comes from Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre [Atlas of all known parts of the globe] published in 1780.
Date: 1780
Creator: Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Carte du golphe du Méxique et des isles Antilles, reduite de la grande carte angloise de Popple.

Description: Map shows inland settlements of coastal lands of the North, Central, and South Americas along the Gulf of Mexico; Gulf and Pacific coasts of New Spain; islands and ship channels of the Caribbean and Atlantic areas including the West Indies and Bermuda. Includes text and color key to European possessions; key to rivers in the Gulf of Panama. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Scale not given.
Date: 1780
Creator: Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Scouting, Volume 59, Number 2, March-April 1971

Description: Bi-monthly publication of the Boy Scouts of America, written for Boy Scout leaders, officials, and others interested in the work of the Scouts. It includes articles about events and activities, updates from the national headquarters, topical columns and essays, and news from various chapters nationwide. A table of contents appears on page 1.
Date: March 1971
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum

A chart shewing [sic] the tracks and discoveries in the Pacific ocean made by Capt. Cook and Capt. Clerke in His Majesty's ships Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780.

Description: Map shows the routes taken by Captain James Cook [1728-1779] and Captain Charles Clerke [1741-1779] during Pacific Ocean exploration of the North American coast, several island groups, "New Holland" [Australia], and Asia. Includes notes and dates. Scale not given.
Date: 1780
Creator: Smith, Matthew
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Decree from Diego de Lasaga]

Description: Decree from Diego de Lasaga citing a previous decree that asks for donations from all subjects in America, one peso from freed men, and two from Spaniards; these donations are to go towards sustaining the war effort against England. In this decree de Lasaga explains how this process is to be done.
Date: 1781-04~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

Elm Fork Echoes, Volume 33-34, May 2005 - May 2006

Description: The newsletter of the Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas contains information related to the activities of the society and its members as well as genealogical notes and history for the Dallas County, Texas and surrounding areas. Index starts on page 65.
Date: May 2005
Creator: Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Carrollton Public Library

The Drake Family

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the Drake family, who first came to Texas in the 1850s. John Drake, the author's grandfather, was a poor ranch man, and the author's father, Dawson Cole Drake, was stationed in England during his military service.
Date: 1970
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Marfa Public Library
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