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Mexico & Guatemala

Description: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington. Insets: Guatemala -- Valley of Mexico.
Date: 1850
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Jane Long holding a fan]

Description: Photographic copy of an oval-framed daguerreotype portrait of Jane Long, seated and visible from the knees up, wearing a dark dress with white lace at collar. She is holding a fan in her left hand and her long dark hair is curled, with lace headpieces on either side of her head.
Date: 1850
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Two unidentified men sitting in wooden chairs with their legs crossed]

Description: Tintype image of two unidentified men sitting in wooden chairs. Man on left is wearing knee high boots plaid pants, white shirt, jacket, and hat. He has his left ankle crossed over his right knee. He is holding a whiskey bottle in his left hand. The man on the left is wearing boots, dark pants (cuffed at the ankles), vest, jacket, white shirt, and hat. He has his left leg crossed over his right. His right arm is around the shoulders of the man to his right. The photo is securely taped in a whi… more
Date: [1850..1910]
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park

Aaron

Description: Biography of Aaron, first High Priest of Israel. Written for children, with an emphasis on submission to God's will. Bound in illustrated wrappers.
Date: 1853/1857
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Sermon by Rev. William Holmes Baldridge

Description: A sermon written by Reverend William Holmes Baldridge, grandfather of Mrs. H. B. Loomis and Mrs. Willie C. Smith, is visible on a piece of paper. The sermon is on confidence in Christ for the Lasting Hope Congregation. The sermon was delivered in 1850 and is over 2nd Timothy 1 and 12.
Date: 1850~
Creator: William Holmes Baldridge
Partner: Denton Public Library

Inventory of the county archives of Texas : Gillespie County, no. 86

Description: Inventory of records of Gillespie County housed in the Gillespie County Courthouse as of 1941. Begins with a historical sketch of the county along with a governmental organization chart, and information on the housing, care, and accessibility of the records. Describes the records of the County Commissioners Court, County Clerk as Recorder, District Court, County Court, Justices of the Peace, District Attorney, County Attorney, Sheriff, Constables, Tax Assessor-Collector, Board of Equalization… more
Date: October 1941
Creator: Historical Records Survey. Texas.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Inventory of county records, Hidalgo County courthouse, Edinburgh, Texas, Volume 1

Description: Inventory of the records of Hidalgo County. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Volume 1 describes the records of the Commissioners Court, County Judge, Right-of-Way Department, County Clerk, Tax Assessor-Collector, Treasurer, Auditor, and School Superintendent. Also provides a listing of Hidalgo County records and an index.
Date: 1979
Creator: Texas County Records Inventory Project
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Inventory of county records, Orange County courthouse, Orange, Texas

Description: Inventory of records of Orange County housed in the Orange County Courthouse in Orange, Texas. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Describes the records of the Commissioners' Court, County Clerk, County Court, District Clerk, District Attorney, Justice of the Peace, Sheriff, Tax Assessor-Collector, County Treasurer, and Auditor. Also provides a list of Orange County records and an index.
Date: 1979
Creator: Harden, Nina
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Inventory of county records, Presidio County courthouse, Marfa, Texas

Description: Inventory of records of Presidio County housed in the Presidio County courthouse in Marfa. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Describes the records of the County Clerk: As Secretary for Commissioners Court, County Clerk: As Reporter for County Court, District Clerk, Tax Assessor-Collector, Justice of the Peace, Sheriff, County Judge, County Treasurer, and County Surveyor.
Date: 1981
Creator: Riney, James E.; Fortin, Maurice G. & Marmion, Daniel
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Watauga Presbyterian Church

Description: Watauga Presbyterian Church, founded as Willow Springs Cumberland Prebyterian Church in the 1850s and reorganized in 1867, then renamed Watauga Presbyterian Church in 1896. Outside the frontier church stands an historical marker naming the courageous families who founded the church when there was nothing but acres of prairie land. Along side of it sits the old farm bell donated by descents of the Keating family, one of the first handful of pioneers to settle in Watauga. On Sundays, the i… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room

History of the German Element in Texas from 1820-1850, and Historical Sketches of the German Texas Singers' League and Houston Turnverein from 1853-1913

Description: This volume covers the German Element in Texas, 1820-1850; an historical sketch of the Texas German Singers' League (Texas Staats Saengerbund), 1853-1913; an historical sketch of the Houston Turnverein, 1854-1913; German Day celebrations in Houston, 1889-1910; and an appendices.
Date: 1913
Creator: Tiling, Moritz, 1851-1916
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Famous in the West

Description: Cunningham provided information about El Paso, Texas in the late nineteenth century. He also wrote about early settlers, marshals, and criminals of the west in that time period. He wrote about "Billy the Kid," First Sergeant James B. Gillett, Tom Threepersons, Dallas Stoudenmire, John Wesley Hardin, and others.
Date: 1925~
Creator: Cunningham, Eugene
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Diana Campbell Parr]

Description: A photograph of Diana Campbell Parr, daughter of privateer James Campbell and wife of Solomon Parr. Mrs. Campbell is wearing a long-sleeved, full-length dark dress with a bow at the neck and gloves.
Date: 1840~/1850
Partner: Moore Memorial Public Library

Neueste Karte von Mexico

Description: Map of Mexico. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridians: Ferro and Paris. Includes key to location of Mexican states and Texas. Upper left margin: Meyers - Grosser Zeitungs - Atlas. Upper right margin: No. 65. From the Virginia Garrett Cartographic Collections.
Date: 1850
Creator: Radefeld, Carl Christian Franz
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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