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Fan
Folding fan. Guards and sticks of lightly carved ivory (bone?) with scrolling foliate designs. The leaf is of white lace. Sticks are unadorned on the reverse. No visible labels, marks or signatures. Fan has alternately been identified as Irish lace or machine-made lace, and dated 1830's or 1880-1899.
Date:
1880/1899
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Folding fan
Folding fan. Guards and sticks of carved and pierced ivory (bone?) with a foliage designs. The white sheer doubled organdy leaf is hand-painted with central vignette of a garden scene of a couple greeting a woman seated on a bench. The leaf with added hand-panted border of a garland of flowers. Reverse is unadorned. No visible labels, marks or signatures.
Date:
1880/1989
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Purse
Handbag with cast and chased silver frame decorated with openwork figures of children harvesting grapes. Ball/snap closure. Silver suspension chain of alternating oval links and links formed of three flower-heads. Bag is oval shaped, black wool with petite point embroidery decoration on each side of a bouquet of trumpet shaped flowers. Pink satin lining. Hallmarked "800" on frame.
Date:
1880/1889
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Glass Slide of Arch of Triumph (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, in Paris, France.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Church des Invalides (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of the Church des Invalides, in Paris, France. The slide is numbered No. 35.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Colomn at La Place Vendome (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of a Vendome Column at La Place Vendome in Paris, France
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Flower and Fruit Hawker (Nice, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of a man selling flowers and fruit in Nice, France. The slide is labeled "Flower and fruit hawker, Nice" and is numbered No. 45.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Interior of Notre Dame (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of the interior of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. The slide is numbered No. 29.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Notre Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. The slide is numbered No 28.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Obelisk of Luxor (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of the Obelisk of Luxor, at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Paris From Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of Paris, taken from the top of the Eiffel Tower looking North. The Palais du Trocadero, in view in the background, was built in 1878 for the World's Fair, but was demolished and replaced by the Palais de Chaillot for the 1937 World's Fair. The slide is numbered No. 46.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Place de la Bastille (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of Place de la Bastille--Colonne de Juillet--Paris, France
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Reflecting Pool at the Jardin de Paris (France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of two women standing in front of the reflecting pool at the Jardin de Paris, in France.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Seine River (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of a tour boat passing beneath a bridge on the Seine River in Paris, France, with the Hotel de Ville in the background.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of Street Scene Near the Jardin de Paris (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of a Paris street near the Jardin de Paris, France.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of The Church of the Madeleine (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of the Church of the Madeleine in Paris, France. The slide is numbered No. 11.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of the Eiffel Tower from Trocadero (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of the Eiffel Tower from Trocadero, in Paris, France. The slide is numbered No. 45.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of the Hotel national des Invalides (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing the interior of Les Invalides, commonly known as Hotel national des Invalides (The National Residence of the Invalids) in Paris, France. The Hotel is a complex of buildings containing museums and monuments, as well as the Dome des Invalides, a large church with the tombs of some of France's war heroes, most notably Napoleon Bonaparte.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Slide of The Pantheon (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph of the Pantheon in Paris, France. The façade of the Pantheon is modeled on the Pantheon in Rome.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vglass Slide of River Seine from Quai des Tuileries (Paris, France)
A glass slide showing a photograph with a view of the River Seine from Quai des Tuileries in Paris, France. The slide is numbered No. 1.
Date:
[1882..1929]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Which Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance, as Called for by Senate Resolution of December 8, 1882. Volume 5
List of men receiving military pensions following the U.S. Civil War, organized by state and county. It includes the certificate number, name, address, reason for pension, monthly amount, and date initiated for each person. This final volume includes men living abroad who have U.S. pensions.
Date:
1883
Creator:
United States. Congress. Senate.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Arbuckles' illustrated atlas of fifty principal nations of the world.
Atlas shows illustrations of nations throughout the world with brief descriptions.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Arbuckle Bros.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[French Exposition Medal]
Souvenir medal from the world's fair held in Paris, featuring a number of symbolic images. On one side, there is a woman seated beneath a tree, holding out a laurel crown to a man at left; at the bottom is an image of the exposition space with the Eiffel Tower. Text around the image says "Exposition Universelle" around the edge and the year, 1889, near the center. The other side has an angel blowing a trumpet in a tree, below a star, with her arm around the bust of a person wearing laurels (at right). Text at left says "Republicque Française" and a decorative box below has the name "F. U. Munson."
Date:
1889
Creator:
Bottée, Louis Alexandre
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
World's Fair of Paris 1889: Commemorative Certificate
Certificate from the 1889 World's Fair in Paris commemorating an exhibit of vines by Thomas Munson. The text is bordered by detailed illustrations including cherubs or angels at the top, on either side of a coat of arms labeled "equality"; columns on either side with dates and text labels 1789 at left (with "liberty" at the top and "commerce" at the bottom) and 1889 at right (with "brotherhood" at top and "industry" at bottom); and book below the text, held open by a branch and ribbon.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France)
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History