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"Collared Peccary"
Colored lithograph by John James Audubon; plate XXXI from “The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America”
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Audubon, John James
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Prairie Wolf
Colored lithograph by John James Audubon; No. 15, Plate LXXI from Audubon’s “The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America”.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Audubon, John James
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Campaign ribbon
James K. Polk/George M. Dallas campaign ribbon; political campaign in which annexation of Texas was an issue
Date:
1844~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metal button
Silver-colored metal button with letter "P" encircled by "City of Houston"
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
“Semipalmated Sandpiper”
Colored lithograph by John James Audubon; No. 81, Plate CCCCV of Audubon'’s “Birds of America”
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Audubon, John James
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metal button
Silver-colored metal button with "Southern Pacific Lines"
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metal button
Gold-colored metal button with letters "F.D." encircled with olive branches
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
"North America"
Hand-colored map of North America with Austin's Colony noted
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Gold locket, engraved with "E"; belonged to Eugenia Wallace]
Lois Jean Cooper-Mayer Collection, Supplement. Gold locket, engraved with "E"; belonged to Eugenia Wallace of Gay Hill, TX
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Bracelet]
A bracelet from the Lois Jean Cooper-Mayer Collection, Supplement.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inception, Organization, and Work of Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Front and back covers of a booklet
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter from Edwin S, Buck to his sister, Jane
Written from Chappell Hill, Texas, by Edwin S. Buck, to his sister, Jane, in Pontiac, Michigan; mentions several family members and local residents.
Date:
February 4, 1800
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of Messrs. Butler and Lewis relative to the Indians of Texas and the southwestern prairies
Descriptions of Texas Indians of the Republic period; mention of captive Parker children
Date:
February 8, 1847
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexican Soldier, 1837-1847
Front and back covers, and spine of a book that describes and illustrates Mexican military organization, dress, equipment, and regulations between 1837-1847.
Date:
1958
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Commemorative plate
Ceramic commemorative plate from Star of the Republic Museum opening in 1970; white plate with molded rim, gilded decoration, and text
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Commemorative plate
Ceramic commemorative plate from Star of the Republic Museum opening in 1970; white plate with molded rim, gilded decoration, and text
Date:
1970~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Commemorative mug
Commemorative yellow glass mug with white, gold, and brown graphics; "Washington State Park Museum";
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Decanter
Rare decanter depicting Generals Washington & Taylor; Obverse reads, "The Father of His Country"; Reverse reads, "General Taylor Never Surrenders"
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
"Sweets for the Leisure Hours, or Flowers of Instruction"
Child's book, "moral, instructive, and entertaining" "for the mind and eyes"
Date:
1840
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photograph of Sam Houston
Photograph of Sam Houston
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Embroidered sampler
Plain weave sampler with silk embroidery, floral border, floral motifs, and poem. Text: "In Sharon's lovely Rose, Immortal beauties/ shine; Its sweet refreshing fragrance shows;/ Its origin divine./ Pleasure is a Rose, near which there ever grows/ the thorn of evil; It is wisdom's work so carefully/ to cull the Rose, as to avoid the thorn, and let its/ rich perfume exhale to heaven in grateful adoration/ of Him who gave the Rose to blow./ Mary Louise Brown, November 2nd 1829."
Date:
November 2, 1829
Creator:
Brown, Mary Louisa
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironstone pitcher
Ironstone water pitcher with following phrase, "A necessity at civic meetings & in publick (sic) inns."
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wallace Family home in Gay Hill
Ink drawing of Wallace Family home in Gay Hill, TX. Lois Jean Cooper Mayer Collection, Supplement 2
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Article on balloons (aerial navigation)
According to the headers and footers, this document is from the "American Magazine," volume I, number 6 which was published in February of an unknown year (a handwritten note on the cover says 1835). The first page (30) is the beginning of an article about how different people might be spending the winter months. The second page (280) includes the end of an article about a riot and burning of a Convent in or near Boston (which may refer to the burning of the Charlestown Convent in August, 1834) as well as random statistics and tidbits of current events.
Date:
February 1835
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History