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Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

Map shows North America and South America as understood during the late sixteenth century. Political boundaries are indicated by coloration in different regions of each continent. Relief shown pictorially. No scale indicated.
Date: 1570
Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Guastecan Reg. Sinus Magnus Orientalis Nove Hisp.

Map shows geography of the Huasteca Region of "New Spain." No scale indicated.
Date: 1601
Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

America.

Map shows settlements in North and South America. Includes text describing the New World. Descriptors on map in Italian and Latin. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1620?
Creator: Magini, Giovanni Antonio, 1555-1617
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Waller Family Coat of Arms

Print of the Waller family coat of arms. Painted by Odine Mhoon. Odine was married to Sam Rayburn's nephew Morris Lightfoot in 1956. They divorced and Morris eventually remarried. The ivory colored paper displays the Waller coat of arms in shades of brown, black, gold, gray, white, blue, green and red. A shield at center shows three gold walnut leaves between two silver bands. At the top is a walnut tree with a pendant shoing three fleurs de lis (the arms of France) with the motto above, "HIC FRUCTUS VIRTUTIS" which is Latin for "This is the reward of integrity." The word "Waller" is below the coat of arms and is written in cursive.
Date: 1850/1969
Creator: Odine Mhoon
Object Type: Artwork
System: The Portal to Texas History

Perusini agri [Umbria, Italy].

Map shows cities and villages pictorially in the region of Umbria, Italy during the late-sixteenth century. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1584
Creator: Danti, Ignazio, 1536-1586
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tabula Paradisi Terrestris Juxta Systema Auctoris.

Map shows the location of the mythical or biblical Eden, "Paradisus Eden Terrestris," in Armenia. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1726..1729]
Creator: Starckman, P.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Spanish] Florida.

Map shows late seventeenth century geographical misconception of Spanish Florida territory in North America. Appalachian Mountain range, two lakes, and numerous rivers of the Mississippi basin are depicted. Relief shown pictorially. No scale provided.
Date: 1678
Creator: Duval, Pierre
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Idea naturalis Americae Borealis digito dei formata geographice proposita an MDCC.

Map shows southern and eastern portions of North America, Central America, the northeast coast of South America, the Caribbean islands, and California (depicted as an island). Includes illustrations of animals, birds, plants, and sea creatures in subtitle cartouche and dispersed across map; global hemisphere atop title. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1700
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

St. Mary's Church of the Assumption, cornerstone detail

Cornerstone detail of St. Mary's Church of the Assumption in Praha, "Hung Lapidem, J. C. Neraz, Episcopus A. D. 1892, Posuit.
Date: October 7, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

St. Mary's Church of the Assumption, cornerstone detail

Cornerstone detail of St. Mary's Church of the Assumption in Praha, "O. Kramer, Arch't. A. Freytag, Sup't. Frank Teich's Granite Works, San Antonio, Tex."
Date: October 7, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

St. Mary's Church of the Assumption, cornerstone detail

Cornerstone detail of St. Mary's Church of the Assumption in Praha, "Deo Omnipotenti in honorem assumptionis B.M.V."
Date: October 7, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, detail of arched stained glass windows

Detail of two arched stained glass windows at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Ammannsville.
Date: October 7, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, detail of arched stained glass windows

Detail of two arched stained glass windows at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Ammannsville.
Date: October 7, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, interior of sanctuary

Interior of the sanctuary at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Ammannsville. The interior is a rosy pink color with elaborate stenciling.
Date: October 7, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

America noviter delineata

Map of North and South America showing political boundaries and place names. Includes inset of Greenland and illustrations of ships and sea monsters.
Date: 1633
Creator: Merian, Matthaeus
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Metal button

Gold-colored metal button with eagle, shield, olive branch, and arrows with the words, "E Pluribus Unum"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

"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

Metal button

Gold-colored metal button with eagle, shield, olive branch, and arrows with the words, "E Pluribus Unum"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Metal button

Gold-colored metal button with eagle, shield, olive branch, arrows and the words, "E Pluribus Unum"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Metal button

Black-colored metal button with eagle, shield, olive branch, and arrows
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Metal button

Metal button with "Do-Cen-Do Dis-Ci-Mus, Ex Ni-Hi-Lo Ni-HilFit"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

Novissima et accuratissima septentrionalis ac meridionalis Americae : descriptio, multis locis regentibus aucta et correctâe divisa in onnes partes hodiernas.

Map shows settlements, ports, political divisions for North and South America; extent of North America to eastern and southern portions; California as an island; islands in the Pacific to New Guinea, east across Atlantic to the coast of Africa. Includes decorative title cartouche showing natives and snakes, decorative cartouche showing the victory of the Cross over the Devil surrounds text on America; image of village and battling tribes in "Brasilia," fauna in North America. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:23,000,000].
Date: [1680..1688]
Creator: Wit, Frederik de
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis novissima repræsentatio : quam ex singulis recentium Geographorum Tabulis collectā

Map shows settlements, physical features, political divisions in North and South America and the West Indies; a portion of the coasts of Europe and Africa; islands in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and settlements. Includes notes, dates of discovery, and illustrations. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1712
Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History