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[Baptist Church and Capitol Building]
Photograph of the first church building used by the Baptist Church (left) and the 1853 Capitol building (right).
Date:
1857
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1668: Carter, Isaac (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Carter, Isaac (died December 4, 1895) and M.V. Cole (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1857/1896-04-06
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1744: Hurt, Drusilla et al (Minors)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Hurt, Drusilla et al (Minors) and S.Q. Richardson (Executor or Guardian). Isaac Carter died about 1895; his heirs resided in Surry County, North Carolina.
Date:
1857-01/1897-04-14
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Greenwood Plantation Accounts: 1857-1858]
Account journal documenting daily work, conditions, and other records for the Greenwood plantation in Montgomery County, Texas, near Danville.
Date:
1857/1858
Creator:
Wood, Green
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Asylum and University Lands situated on the waters of Hubbards-Creek
Cadastral map of land grants for universities, blind asylums, and lunatic asylums, showing blocks of land and plat numbers. The map also includes rivers, creeks, roads, and areas of elevation. Relief shown in hachures.
Date:
1857
Creator:
Carter, S. M. & Creuzbaur, R.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Asylum Lands
Survey map of land grants for "blind and lunatic asylums" in Shackelford, Jones, Taylor, and Calhoun Counties, showing blocks of land and plat numbers. The map also includes rivers, creeks, and areas of elevation. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:70,000] (2000 varas to the inch).
Date:
1857
Creator:
Creuzbaur, Robert
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Texas and part of New Mexico
Map of most of the state of Texas and some of the surrounding areas, including parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. It includes markings for roads, major cities, bodies of water, and and some geographic features, with relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich. Includes list of authorities, coordinates of selected locations, and descriptive notes on various rivers.
Date:
1857
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Texas and part of New Mexico : Compiled in the Bureau of Topographl. Eng'rs. chiefly for military purposes, 1857.
Map shows towns, military outposts, rivers, and military reconnaissance surveys in parts of mid-nineteenth century Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico. Includes list of authorities and table of readings from surveyor's stations. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Scale [1:1,500,000].
Date:
1857
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the United States and Texas Boundary Line and Adjacent Territory
Blueline map showing the boundary line between Texas and Mexico, showing topographic markings. Scale 1: 999,996 (15 miles and 4133 ft = 1 in.)
Date:
1857
Creator:
United States. Department of the Interior.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the United States and Texas Boundary Line and Adjacent Territory.
Map of the boundary lines between Texas and the United States, showing military trails, bodies of water, and areas of elevation. Includes table of "Points which can be easily found on the Earth's surface," indicating the latitude and longitude of mountains, hills, rivers, and creeks. Scale [ca. 1:950,400] (15 miles to the inch).
Date:
1857
Creator:
Clark, J. H. & Weyss, J. E.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mapa del Presidio de San Antonio de Bexar: sus Misiones de la Provinsia de Texas, Fecho en 24 del Mes de Marzo de 1764
Duplication of a map roughly depicting the missions and surrounding areas located near present-day San Antonio, during the Spanish rule of Texas; features are represented pictorially. Scale approximately 1:83,333 (Escala de 5000. Mil Varas Casttellanas.)
Date:
1857
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Minutes for the Soule University Board of Trustees: 1875-1876]
Ledger containing minutes of the Soule University Board of Trustees including accounts of decisions and otehr business activites.
Date:
1857-01/1876-09
Creator:
Soule University Board of Trustees
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Minutes of the Eighteenth Annual Session of the Union Baptist Association, 1857
Minutes of the annual meeting of the Union Baptist Association in Texas include accounts of proceedings at the session, committee reports, statistics regarding Baptist churches in Texas, and other relevant notes and commentaries.
Date:
1857
Creator:
Union Baptist Association (Tex.)
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Preliminary chart no. 31 of the seacoast of the United States from Galveston Bay to Matagorda Bay Texas : from a trigonometrical survey.
Map shows islands, settlements, and coastline from Matagorda Bay, along Galveston Island, Bolivar Peninsula, and Galveston Bay. Includes text with information on lighthouses, beacons, light vessels, magnetic needle, tides and winds. Relief shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:200,000].
Date:
1857
Creator:
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Preliminary chart of the entrance to Matagorda Bay, Texas from a trigonometrical survey.
Map shows coastline details for Matagorda Bay and Lavaca Bay; towns, islands, lighthouses, shipwrecks, structures, and beacons. Includes notes on light houses, tides, soundings, and bottoms. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [1:40,000], [1:200,000] and [1:40,000].
Date:
1857
Creator:
Schulz, Wm. P.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Proceedings of the Grand lodge of Texas, from its organization in city of Houston, Dec. A.D. 1837, A.L. 5837, to the close of the grand annual communication held at Palestine, January 19, A.D. 1857, Vol. 1
By A.S. Ruthven ... Compiled from the original records and documents now in possession of Grand lodge, together with the constitutions ... also ... history of the ... Masonic order in Texas. Pub. by authority of M.W. Wm. Stedman, Grandmaster.
Date:
1857
Creator:
Freemasons. Texas. Grand Lodge.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Proceedings of the Grand lodge of Texas, from its organization in city of Houston, Dec. A.D. 1837, A.L. 5837, to the close of the grand annual communication held at Palestine, January 19, A.D. 1857, Vol. 2
By A.S. Ruthven ... Compiled from the original records and documents now in possession of Grand lodge, together with the constitutions ... also ... history of the ... Masonic order in Texas. Pub. by authority of M.W. Wm. Stedman, Grandmaster.
Date:
1857
Creator:
Freemasons. Texas. Grand Lodge.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Texan. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1857
Weekly newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 1, 1857
Creator:
Huston, E. G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sketch I, showing the progress of the survey in section no. IX from 1848 to 1857.
Map shows towns along the Gulf of Mexico coastline in Texas used for triangulation. Inset: Sketch Rio Grande and vicinity 1853 & 56. Includes text, "Notes." Scale [1:600,000] and [1:400,000].
Date:
1857
Creator:
United States Coast Survey
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
State of Texas / by H.D. Rogers & A. Keith Johnston ; engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston.
Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich. In upper margin: "Atlas of United States &c." "17."
Date:
1857
Creator:
Rogers, Henry D. & Johnston, Alexander Keith
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century Texas geography, towns, and cities. Also indicates the "Cross Timbers" region of Texas and present-day Oklahoma. Inset: "Plan der Galveston Bay." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca.1:4,224,000].
Date:
1857?
Creator:
Flemming, Carl, fl. 1842
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas
Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich. Excludes Texas west of the 101st meridian.
Date:
1857
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Almanac for 1858
The almanac covers general topics about the state of Texas including statistics for individual counties, agriculture, expenditures, and weather, as well as discussions of legal and social issues of the time.
Date:
1857
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Texas Capitol 1857]
Photograph of the Texas Capitol 1857 in Austin, Texas.
Date:
1857
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History