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[Transcript of letter from James Anson Dunn to Rev. Mr. McClain, January 12, 1839]
Copy of transcript for a letter from James Anson Dunn to Rev. Mr. McClain introducing M. Austin Bryan.
Date:
January 12, 1839
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway guide for Illinois shewing all the stations with their respective distances by shortest route from Chicago.
Map shows existing and under-construction railroad lines, "Military Tract" road, and settlements along railway lines. Includes notes, distances along rail lines, and population statistics for Chicago. Scale not given.
Date:
1854
Creator:
Miller & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New map of Chicago.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century Chicago parks, public buildings, railroad stations, land ownership, and railroads. Includes population statistics for 1840 through 1855. Cadastral map. Scale [1:14,400].
Date:
1855
Creator:
Wm. Hall & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New Map of Chicago Comprising the Whole City
Map shows mid-nineteenth century Chicago parks, public buildings, railroad stations, land ownership, and railroads. Includes population statistics for 1840 through 1855. Cadastral map. Scale [1:14,400].
Date:
October 1855
Creator:
Wm. Hall & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Maps of Chicago and Saint Louis]
Map shows street names, wards, railroads, parks, cemeteries, public institutions, some buildings and businesses. Scale [ca. 1:26,000].
Date:
[1856..1876]
Creator:
J.H. Colton & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicago Harbor & Bar, Illinois.
Map shows railroads, churches, hospitals, streets, piers, excavation sites, and proposed new lighthouse and pier extensions. Includes explanatory notes. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [1:2400].
Date:
1858
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicago.
Map shows late nineteenth century Chicago wards, street names, railroads, piers, canals, levees, parks, select buildings, tunnels, and public institutions. Scale not given.
Date:
1867
Creator:
Mitchell, S. Augustus, Jr. (Samuel Augustus)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicago.
Map shows late nineteenth century Chicago wards, street names, railroads, piers, canals, levees, parks, select buildings, tunnels, and public institutions. Scale not given.
Date:
1867
Creator:
Mitchell, S. Augustus, Jr. (Samuel Augustus)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicago.
Map shows late nineteenth century Chicago wards, street names, railroads, piers, canals, levees, parks, select buildings, tunnels, and public institutions. Scale not given.
Date:
1870
Creator:
Mitchell, S. Augustus, Jr. (Samuel Augustus)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Chicago, showing the burnt district
Map shows street names, railroads, railroad stations, parks, wards, and some buildings; area burned in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Scale not given.
Date:
1871
Creator:
Freeman & Burr
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicago.
Map shows late nineteenth century Chicago wards, street names, railroads, piers, canals, levees, parks, select buildings, tunnels, and public institutions. Scale not given.
Date:
1872
Creator:
Mitchell, S. Augustus, Jr. (Samuel Augustus)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicago.
Map shows late nineteenth century Chicago wards, street names, railroads, piers, canals, levees, parks, select buildings, tunnels, and public institutions. Scale not given.
Date:
1872
Creator:
Mitchell, S. Augustus, Jr. (Samuel Augustus)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicago.
Map shows late nineteenth century Chicago wards, street names, railroads, piers, canals, levees, parks, select buildings, tunnels, and public institutions. Scale not given.
Date:
1875
Creator:
Mitchell, S. Augustus, Jr. (Samuel Augustus)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Rebecca Ashton Brown as a Young Woman]
Portrait of Rebecca Ashton Brown in a long dress and flowery hat.
Date:
1875~
Creator:
Root, W. J.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicago water plan
Map shows Chicago street names, canals, and lake tunnels during the late nineteenth century. Scale [ca. 1:25,334].
Date:
1878
Creator:
Shober & Carqueville
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Snarl Dog Cartoon
A glass slide of a color cartoon showing a boy with a dog on a leash. An old man is on the floor under a table on his hands and knees looking at the dog while an old woman is seated at the table. The caption reads "Now snarl Dad and show fight it's the way to train." The cartoon was published by Chicago Publishing Co., 225 Dearborn St., Chicago.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map showing the boulevards and park system and twelve miles of lake frontage of the City of Chicago.
Map shows radial lines at 1-mile intervals, lighthouse locations in the outer harbor of Lake Michigan, parks, railroads, and railway stations. Includes index. Scale [ca. 1:33,500].
Date:
1883
Creator:
Rand McNally and Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map showing the boulevards and park system and twelve miles of lake frontage of the City of Chicago [Accompanying Text].
Explanation and supporting information related to map that shows radial lines at 1-mile intervals, lighthouse locations in the outer harbor of Lake Michigan, parks, railroads, and railway stations.
Date:
1883
Creator:
Rand McNally and Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Retort Vaporizer and Superheater
Patent for improvements for vaporizers "of simple and highly efficient means for thoroughly and effectively superheating the vapor of water and oil" (lines 13-15).
Date:
March 26, 1889
Creator:
Biddison, Stella D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Chicago Harbor Illinois
Map shows railroads and dock ownership by railroads and corporations in Chicago Harbor during the late nineteenth century. Scale [ca. 1:2400].
Date:
1890
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Maps of Chicago and Milwaukee]
Map shows late nineteenth century Chicago street names, parks, docks, canals, steam and horse railroads; street names, cemeteries, docks, canals, and steam and horse railroads in Milwaukee and Bay View. Includes key to railroad depots and hotels. Scale [ca. 1:29,800].
Date:
[1890..1910]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Dora and Carrie Lee in Striped Dresses]
Photograph of Dora and Carrie Lee wearing striped dresses with white neck pieces. The picture has a vignette effect that reveals the girls from the chest up only. "For Susie Matthews, Dora and Carrie Lee" is written on the reverse side.
Date:
1890~
Creator:
Harvey
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of William David Reynolds]
Photograph of William D. Reynolds in a vignetted portrait. He is mustached and wears a wool jacket, tie, and high white collar. "W. D. Reynolds married mama's first cousin Susan Matthews" is written underneath him in pencil.
Date:
1890~
Creator:
Stevens
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Linter
Patent for an improvement "to prevent the accumulation of lint within the lint-chambers; to provide for the automatic discharge of the lint from the saw-teeth; to provide for a thorough agitation of the seed within the seed-reviews, and, finally, to provide for the delivery of the stripped seed from the machine" (lines 12-19).
Date:
August 5, 1890
Creator:
O'Brien, Edward J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History