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Spanish dominions in North America

A map of the southern United States, Central America, and part of the Gulf of Mexico. All of the marked spots on the map are Spanish dominions.
Date: 1812
Creator: Arrowsmith, Aron
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Mexico, California and Texas in 1851]

Relief shown by hachures. Includes illustrations of people washing gold, Mexican peasants and the ruins at Uxmal, Yucatan. There are colorful borders around each of the different states within the Mexican border.
Date: 1851
Creator: Martin, Robert Montgomery
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mexico, Guatemala, and the West Indies.

Map. Relief shown by land form drawings. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.
Date: 1835
Creator: Bradford, T. G.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

A Map of Mexico and the Republic of Texas

Map of Mexico and the southern part of the Republic of Texas with adjacent areas. Geographic features are marked, with relief shown by hachures and colors denote states and territories. Scale [ca. 1:7,000,000].
Date: 1838
Creator: Niles, John M. (John Milton), 1787-1856 & Pease, L. T.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Texas and part of Mexico

Map showing Texas and the surrounding areas in the United States and Mexico. Geography and major cities are marked, with relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.
Date: 1846
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska (open access)

The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska

Compilation of translated texts describing the explorations of Coronado and his companions as they traveled in Central American and parts of present-day United States, with some supplementary historical notes for context.
Date: 1922
Creator: Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mexican Government Description (open access)

Mexican Government Description

Details of the Battle of San Jacinto and a description of the Mexican government. The document is incomplete.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Copy of the Power of Attorney from Fernando del Valle to Lorenzo de Zavala, November 29, 1833] (open access)

[Copy of the Power of Attorney from Fernando del Valle to Lorenzo de Zavala, November 29, 1833]

Copy of the Power of Attorney from Fernando del Valle to Lorenzo de Zavala, November 29, 1833, to sell eleven leagues of land in Texas. This is a typed translation that was filed in Houston County in 1905.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Valle, Fernando del
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Court transactions of Eleven leagues of land from Don Fernando del Valle to Zavala, November 11, 1833] (open access)

[Court transactions of Eleven leagues of land from Don Fernando del Valle to Zavala, November 11, 1833]

Valle granting permission to conclude the sale to Zavala of the eleven leagues of land which he possesses as his own in Texas. And the documents transferring power of ownership and land rights of the eleven leagues of land to Emily de Zavala. This is a typed translation that was filed in Houston County in 1905.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Valle, Fernando del
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Copy #2 of the Power of Attorney from Fernando del Valle to Lorenzo de Zavala, November 29, 1833] (open access)

[Copy #2 of the Power of Attorney from Fernando del Valle to Lorenzo de Zavala, November 29, 1833]

Copy of the Power of Attorney from Fernando del Valle to Lorenzo de Zavala, November 29, 1833, to sell eleven leagues of land in Texas. This is a typed translation that was filed in Houston County in 1905.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Valle, Fernando del & Oca, Pedro Mones De
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jose Maria Viesca, October 13, 1829] (open access)

[Letter from Jose Maria Viesca, October 13, 1829]

Letter from Jose Maria Viesca to Lorenzo de Zavala: Tlalpam, October 13, 1829.
Date: October 13, 1829
Creator: Viesca, José María
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
Evacuation of Texas : translation of the Representation addressed to the supreme government / by Vicente Filisola, in defence of his honor, and explanation of his operations as commander-in-chief of the army against Texas. (open access)

Evacuation of Texas : translation of the Representation addressed to the supreme government / by Vicente Filisola, in defence of his honor, and explanation of his operations as commander-in-chief of the army against Texas.

English translation of the Representation addressed to the supreme government. "Representación dirigida al supremo gobierno."
Date: 1837
Creator: Filísola, Vicente
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Trading Posts in Big Bend, Texas 1916-1930]

Reproduction of a hand-drawn map showing trading posts on the Rio Grande River from El Paso to Eagle Pass, Texas. It includes two lists: "Trading Posts on the Texas Side of the Big Bend in 1916-30" and "Settlements in the Juarez Area." It also has notes near the bottom of the map that say "The trade area was an 80 mile radius from the Rio Grande. Several days travel by burro or horse. Most towns or villages shown were in the news during the border trouble days" and "Most of this part of Mexico and the Big Bend Country is rough mountains.
Date: unknown
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of the U.S.-Mexico Border from El Paso to Van Horn, Texas]

Reproduction of a hand-drawn map showing the border area between Texas and Mexico from El Paso, Texas (left) to Van Horn, Texas (right). Several towns, forts, roads, and geographic features are marked primarily on the Texas side of the map. A note in the bottom-left corner of the map says "Where the Rio Grande becomes the U.S. & Mexico boundary, and flows towards the Big Bend District. It makes 1,260 miles of the international border. Much of the early history of the south-west was made along the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) by the Spaniards. Their route was through "El Paso del Norte" the Pass of the North. This section of the border was very active during the "Border Trouble Days" of 1916 to 1920."
Date: [1920..]
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of the Pershing Expedition: March 15, 1916]

Reproduction of a hand-drawn map showing routes the U. S. troops took into Mexico on the expedition of 1916 led by General John J. Pershing. Notes the pack train and wagon train routes as well as infantry routes, and the Expedition headquarters at Dublan Mexico.
Date: unknown
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hotel Iturbide, Monterrey]

Postcard featuring a photograph of the front of Hotel Iturbide on Calle Zaragoza in Monterrey, Mexico with mountains in the background as well as people and automobiles in the street. It was sent to Rochester, Minnesota with this handwritten text: "Sun. P. M. Dear Matt: arrived here yesterday (Saty.) leaving right now, the weather has been unusually cold. Laredo, on the border, had 2" snow the Mexican kids sure were having fun with it. So long, Mel"
Date: January 24, 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

Plano de los Dos Laredos

Plat of the 'two Laredos' (Laredo, Texas and New Laredo, Mexico) from January 1881. The map appears to be a cadastral map with numbered (and lettered) lots in both cities, likely showing ownership. Some streets are labeled as well as Fort McIntosh (noted as a "U.S. Military Reservation") in Laredo and the Campo de Marte in Nuevo Laredo.
Date: January 1881
Creator: Laroche, E. R.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas History Stories: Drawing the Black Beans and Castle Peroté. (open access)

Texas History Stories: Drawing the Black Beans and Castle Peroté.

Brief, subjective narratives of select events during the Republic of Texas era.
Date: 1901
Creator: Littlejohn, E. G., 1862-
Object Type: Book
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

History of South America and Mexico ; comprising their discovery, geography, politics, commerce and revolutions. By Hon. John M. Niles. To which is annexed, A geographical and historical view of Texas, with a detailed account of the Texian revolution and war. By Hon. L. T. Pease.

Hand drawn color map of Mexico and the Republic of Texas as of 1838. Includes political boundaries, cities, and rivers.
Date: 1838
Creator: Niles, John M. (John Milton)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Neueste Karte von Mexico

Map of the Southwest, including Texas and Mexico. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Upper left margin: Meyers - Handatlas. Upper right margin: No. 66. Prime meridians: Ferro and Paris. Includes key to location of Mexican states and Texas. From the Virginia Garrett Cartographic Collections.
Date: 1845
Creator: Radefeld, Carl Christian Franz
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Texas, containing the latest grants & discoveries

Hand-colored map of the Republic of Texas showing grants, towns, rivers, and roads.
Date: unknown
Creator: Lee, E. F.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History