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Men with Chuck Wagon

Description: Copy negative of a group of men with supplies gathered around a chuck wagon in a field. Eleven are sitting, and three are standing. There is a herd of cattle in the background.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Portrait of Chester Bernard Nimitz]

Description: Portrait of Chester Bernard Nimitz, father of Chester W. Nimitz. The image is rounded off in an oval and shows Chester B. Nimitz from the chest up. He is wearing a dark suit jacket and a white undershirt with a skewed collar and messy dark bow tie.
Date: 18XX
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Bacon's map of the United States.

Description: Map of the United States that shows railroads, military outposts, Pony Express and postal routes, and historical routes of exploration and commerce. Includes legend and relief is shown by hachures. Hand marked to emphasize a portion of South Central Colorado and routes through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and parts of Wyoming and New Mexico. Scale [ca. 1:7,194,000].
Date: 1866
Creator: Bacon, G. W. (George Washington), 1830-1921.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Among Our Souvenirs]

Description: Copy photo of T&P train #40 from T&P Topics magazine entitled "Among Our Souvenirs." Written below the image are "#40, built by the old Pittsburgh Locomotive Works at Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1876. Listed as a Class B-3 or 'Saddle-Back' type. The T&P bought only one of these - using it for switching at the Marshall Shops. Seemingly enlarged section of the boiler is its water tank, built around the steam dome. The metal bin built behind the cab took the place of the conventional coal tender. Developin… more
Date: July 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Portrait of a Mother and Her Two Children]

Description: Black and white portrait of Hansigne Larsen Wind and her two children, Ebbe and Abelone. Hansigne is seated in a wooden chair and is dressed in a long, dark gown. The children are standing on either side of Hansigne, with their arms placed in her lap. The back of the mat has a handwritten note which says, "Leaving Iowa to visit mother's family taken in 1895. Mother Ebbe. Daddy left for Tex in 1894, Oct. We 3 joined him here in June 1895."
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

Map of the United States and territories: showing the extent of public surveys and other details.

Description: Map shows township grid, survey and land offices, land grant and non-land-grant railroads, military posts, cities, towns, Native American reservations, state and territorial boundaries, notable physical features, and mineral resources; Dakota boundaries encompassing [modern-day] Wyoming, and "Indian Territory" not yet surveyed. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,800,000].
Date: 1866
Creator: United States. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Cosmopolitan Hand-book of Rules and Tables

Description: Educational book about business and agriculture. Includes tables for conversions of various weights and measures, population and census data, information for making purchases and sales in agriculture, and business advice, along with an extensive section of advertisements.
Date: 1884
Creator: Coryell, E. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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