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Mexico and internal provinces / prepared from Humboldt's map & other documents by J. Finlayson ; engrav'd by Young & Delleker.

Title in upper margin: Geographical, statistical and historical map of Mexico. "Mexico. No. 38." Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: London and Washington. Includes text in margins.
Date: 1822
Creator: Finlayson, J.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mexico / Young & Delleker, sc.

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.
Date: 1824
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mexico and Guatimala [sic] / J.H. Young, sc.

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.
Date: 1828
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[James Long's expedition] (open access)

[James Long's expedition]

Letter re. James Long's expedition 6 October 1821.
Date: October 6, 1821
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

McCreary Quilt dated 1824.

McCreary Quilt dated 1824.
Date: 1824
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lorenzo de Zavala copy of presidential decree May 8th 1829 (open access)

Lorenzo de Zavala copy of presidential decree May 8th 1829

Lorenzo de Zavala writing on behalf of the Mexican president about issues concerning congress and payment.
Date: May 8, 1829
Creator: Zavala, Lorenzo de, 1788-1836
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jose Maria Viesca to Lorenzo de Zavala, May 12, 1828] (open access)

[Letter from Jose Maria Viesca to Lorenzo de Zavala, May 12, 1828]

Letter from Jose Maria Viesca to Lorenzo de Zavala while Zavala was Governor of the state of Mexico. Concerning the colonization of Texas. May 12, 1828.
Date: May 12, 1828
Creator: Viesca, José María
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mexico.

Map of Mexico and Texas circa 1824 showing states, place names and rivers.
Date: 1824
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mexico and West Indies

Color map showing the West Indies, Central America, northern South America, Southwest U.S. and Mexico showing place names, political boundaries, rivers and some roads in 1824. Relief shown by hachures.
Date: 1824
Creator: Smith, J.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
An address at the grave of a Sunday-school child. (open access)

An address at the grave of a Sunday-school child.

At the gravesite of one of their classmates, the Sunday-school teacher tells the class that Sarah Pearce will be with God, for she loved him and honored him.
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
All the world's on stilts (open access)

All the world's on stilts

Moralizing story, where the narrator, after seeing a "lubberly boy" on stilts, reflects on people that set themselves above others and make spectacles of themselves.
Date: 1827/1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The baby is with God (open access)

The baby is with God

Text exhorting readers not to grieve over the death of the infant, for it has been received into God's arms.
Date: 1827/1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Death of little Mary (open access)

Death of little Mary

Little Mary S., devout and faithful, is dying at the age of 8. Her faith touches all around her, and helps bring them closer to God.
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The fourth commandment broken. (open access)

The fourth commandment broken.

Martha Scott, who would censure others for breaking the Sabbath, herself not only breaks the Sabbath but looses her temper - not realizing the sins she is committing.
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Give us this day our daily bread. (open access)

Give us this day our daily bread.

His mother unable to provide for himself and his siblings, six year old Little Johnny prays on the way to school. On arriving home, he finds food has been left for the family. Not an angel, but an earthly agent of God heard his prayer and provided for the family.
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The glass of gin; or, when it is safest to run. (open access)

The glass of gin; or, when it is safest to run.

Mr. Grace advises Samuel Hawkes to take the long path around Mr. Benson's orchard to avoid temptation.
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Going apprentice. (open access)

Going apprentice.

Words of wisdom from an old German schoolmaster to a young boy about to go learn a trade, and how being good will help him succeed.
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The grocery ruined him. (open access)

The grocery ruined him.

Little Robert would not heed the advice of his Sunday school teacher and avoid the men at the grocery store who kept trying to get him to drink rum. By the age of 13, Robert becomes a drunkard.
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! (open access)

Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

Moralizing tale of the fate of a man who starts out as a Sabath-breaker, and who ends up a murderer.
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Harvest close upon seed time. (open access)

Harvest close upon seed time.

Moralizing tale of the youth who starts by missing just a few minutes of Sunday school, slides into sin, skips class, joins a fire company, and eventually lands in prison in Maryland with a 15 year term for robbery.
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The home-made boy. (open access)

The home-made boy.

Moralizing tale of the differences between two boys in the Sunday school, Arthur and Lewis, which are "chiefly made at home!"
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is it worth climbing for? (open access)

Is it worth climbing for?

Moralizing tale of how boys, men, peasants and princes all may climb over obstacles towards a goal, but are worldly goals worth the climb?
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The kink in the engine rope. (open access)

The kink in the engine rope.

Moralizing tale where an apprentice printer is cautioned against following the fire engine, as it will lead to bad habits.
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The new bonnet. (open access)

The new bonnet.

Moralizing tale where Miss Amelia F. Johnson learns that the pretty new bonnet she wants to wear to church is not as important as learning to serve God. The story is followed by the poem "The child's prayer."
Date: [1827..1853]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library