Resource Type

Serial/Series Title

Language

Ambrotype

Ambrotype of unidentified Navasota area resident; in Gutta Percha case, Victorian design
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Battle of Corinth"

Caption reads, "Oct. 3' & 4' 1862. Union (Gen. Rosecrans) Loss: Gens Hackleman, Kirby Smith & 315 kd, 1812 wo & 232 misg conf. (Gen. Van Dorn) Loss: Col. Rogers & 1424 kd, 5000 wo, 2268 pris."; kd=killed, wo=wounded, misg conf=missing confirmed
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Bivouac of Confederate troops on the Las Moras, Texas, with stolen U.S. wagons, etc."

Engraved print of soldiers, wagons, and livestock on the banks of the Las Moras
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Brownsville, Texas, Occupied by the Army under General Banks, November 1863", in Frank Leslie's, "The Soldier In Our Civil War" (1893)

Engraved print of supplies stacked on wharf at Brownsville, Texas
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Capitulation of Vera Cruz: The Mexican Soldiers Marching Out and Surrendering their Arms to General Scott, March 29, 1847."

Hand-colored print of soldiers at Vera Cruz
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"The Constitution and its Nurses"

Cartoon featuring Van Buren, Jackson, Polk, Tyler, Clay, Cass, and Johnson
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Cover of Child's Primer]

Images of the front and back covers of a child's verse book. The text and illustrations of the cover are mostly disintegrated, but the word 'Primer' appears to be on the front. A handwritten note in the top, left-hand corner of the front cover says, "Josie May Lance, Born 1869 - her book."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"'Creasing' Mustangs in Texas"

From "Harper's Weekly"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"David Crockett's Elk Hunt"

Hand-colored engraving from Sporting Review (Plate 17), with Crockett's description of hunt
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"David Crockett's Fight For Bear-Meat"

Hand-colored engraving from Sporting Review (Plate 18) with Crockett's description of fight
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"A Deer Drive in the Texas 'Cross-Timber"

Hand-colored engraving of hunters, horses, dogs, and deer in Texas forest
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Engraved print

Baron Alexander von Humboldt
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Engraving of the Funeral of Iturbide"

Processional with crowds lining the street and band playing at funeral of Iturbide
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Galveston in Texas"

Hand-colored engraving of dock at Galveston; scene shows houses, bales of cotton, workers, sinking boat
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Galveston in Texas"

Black and white reproduction print of Galveston taken from Harper's Weekly; limited edition of 100 sets
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Harper's Weekly: Elizabeth Street, Brownsville, Texas]

Color sketch of Elizabeth Street in Brownsville, Texas, printed from a photograph in an issue of Harper's Weekly. There are buildings lining the street, but no signs are visible. The street is filled with covered wagons and people (including soldiers in uniform).
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Houston and Galveston Railroad"

From Harper's Weekly
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Membership certificate of Alexander Simon as a member of The Merchants' Association of New York]

Papers of Alexander Simon. Membership certificate of Alexander Simon, Brenham, as a non-resident member of The Merchants' Association of New York; bird's eye-view of Manhattan Island in center of certificate
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Monterey"; "Monterey as it appeared on 23rd September 1846"

Monterey during the Mexican War
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Notice to Smokers and Chewers"

Hand-colored lithograph of a rebus (word picture puzzle) warning smokers of the following: "Gentlemen are requested to spit in the spittoon and not on the floor, and to throw their butts and stumps in the stove, or out at the window."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Pamphlet: Souvener Album of Houston, Texas.

Souvenir album of Houston, Texas; consists of drawings of different buildings in Houston
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Port of Galveston"

Black and white reproduction print of Galveston taken from Harper's Weekly; limited edition of 100 sets
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portrait of J. Pinkney Henderson

Portrait of J. Pinkney Henderson cut from a book, unknown source
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Rebel Attack Upon the 43rd Massachusetts Volunteers at Galveston, Texas"

from Harper's Weekly
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History