Engraved print of Abraham Lincoln

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln with notation in lower left corner, "From life by F.B. Carpenter, 1864,"
Date: 1864
Creator: Carpenter, F. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Tshusick, an Ojibway Woman"

Lithograph of Tshusick, an Ojibway Woman.
Date: 1838
Creator: I.T. Bowens
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Republic of the Rio Grande

Front cover of a booklet about "The Republic of the Rio Grande" containing an illustration labeled, "The Capital Building."
Date: unknown
Creator: Lindheim, Milton
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Esh-Tah-Hum-Leah, or the Sleepy Eye: A Sioux Chief

Hand-colored lithograph of Sioux chief Esh-Tah-Hum-Leah visible from the waist up; he is wearing feathers in hair and has two braids, a scarf around his neck, and blanket over his right shoulder.
Date: 1836
Creator: Newsam
System: The Portal to Texas History

When Texas Came Romping into the Union

Front and back covers of a text about the annexation of Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Pellow, Robert Emmett
System: The Portal to Texas History

Military Plaza: San Antonio

Engraving of a plaza with scene showing men and women, dogs, horses, and oxen. There are several buildings in the background, of different styles. In the foreground, groups of people are stopped and there are various items on the ground around them.
Date: unknown
Creator: Schott, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Harper's Weekly: Camp Ford, Texas Sketch]

Hand-colored print of the Civil War camp, Camp Ford taken from an 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly, page 132. Camp Ford, located near Tyler, Texas was established in 1863 as a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War. Over the course of two years, the camp held about 6,000 prisoners and was one of the largest Confederate prison camps west of the Mississippi River.
Date: March 4, 1865
Creator: Simmons, G. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Harper's Weekly: Camp Ford, Texas Sketch]

Hand-colored print of the Civil War camp, Camp Ford took from an 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly, page 132. Camp Ford, located near Tyler, Texas was established in 1863 as a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War. Over the course of two years, the camp held about 6,000 prisoners and was one of the largest Confederate prison camps west of the Mississippi River. George Washington Simmons, pictured holding a pail, was the paymaster of the USS Clifton, captured at Sabine Pass on September 8, 1863. The crew was initially incarcerated at Camp Groce near Hempstead, but the prisoners were all moved to Camp Ford in December 1863. Simmons was in the Prisoner exchange that occurred at Red River Landing on February 25, 1865. The lithograph made from his sketch was published in New York on March 4, 1865, only a week after his exchange.
Date: March 4, 1865
Creator: Simmons, G. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tanner's Travelling Map of Mexico

Front cover and front inside cover of a portfolio for a map guide.
Date: unknown
Creator: Tanner, H. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History

"A Drove of Texas Cattle Crossing a Stream"

Engraved woodcut of cattle crossing a stream printed in Harper's Weekly, October 19, 1867, page 665.
Date: October 19, 1867
Creator: Waud, A. R.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Engraving of San Antonio, Texas]

Steel engraving print of the town of San Antonio from Meyer's Universum.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Galveston in Texas

Steel engraving print of Galveston, Texas showing a group of men sitting, or working on a wooden dock. A sunken ship is visible in the water on the right side of the image, and on the left, the dock curves and leads toward the town. A number of buildings are pictured along the dock.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Henrietta Veazey]

Lois Jean Cooper-Mayer Collection. Picture of Henrietta Veazey, sister of Catherine (Kate) Veazey; taken about 1877, year she died; from collection of 71 items (parts a-bs): documents, photographs, and books. See 1983-82.1 - .7 for related three dimensional objects. On back of photograph: "Henretta Veazey. Born: 1858 in Gay Hill, Texas. Died: According to family tradition, when 19, same year picture taken, Gay Hill, Texas. Father: Y. Sheppard Veazey. Mother: Amanda Malvina Zimmerman. Older Sister of Catherine (Kate) Veazey (Mrs. Eugene Bibb Wallace). Family tradition says she was engaged to William Wallace (no relation to E. B. Wallace). When she died he married her older sister Zoe."
Date: 1877~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Market House, Caroline County, Virginia]

Illustration of house; on front "Market House, Caroline County, Va. (John Baylor, 1758); on back "'New Market' Manor House, Caroline Co. Virginia. Home of the Baylors, who came from Tiverton, Devonshire, England, in 1676"
Date: 1758
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Neu Braunfels in Texas

Steel engraving print of New Braunfels, Texas, from Meyer's Universum
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portrait of Asa Hoxey

Oil on canvas painting of Asa Hoxey, Washington, Texas; laid on board and framed (not from period).
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portrait of James Madison

Print of James Madison; the portrait shows him from mid-chest up.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portrait of Josiah Turnham

Portrait of Josiah Joplin Turnham.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portrait of Martha Ann Woolfolk Turnham

A portrait of Martha Ann Woolfolk Turnham, she is wearing a lace bonnet and collar with a dark gown.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Surrender of Santa Anna

Print of Santa Anna's surrender to General Sam Houston during the Texas Revolution
Date: April 22, 1836
Creator: unknown
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
System: The Portal to Texas History