[Map showing the geographical location of Fort Worth, Tex. and Rail Roads]

Map accompanying the book, The capitalist, or, The city of Fort Worth : a parody on the Mikado. The map shows railroad lines all over the U.S.
Date: 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The capitalist, or, The city of Fort Worth : a parody on the Mikado (open access)

The capitalist, or, The city of Fort Worth : a parody on the Mikado

City of Fort Worth.; Texas Mikado. Fort Worth facts in footnote area of each page of text of play./ Subtitle on cover: The Texas Mikado./ Folded colored map inserted at front./ Advertising matter on leaves before and after numbered pages.
Date: 1888
Creator: Smith, Ed. J.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lands for Sale in Texas.  Over 150,000 Acres Carefully Selected and Owned by W.S. Herndon of Tyler, Smith County, Texas (open access)

Lands for Sale in Texas. Over 150,000 Acres Carefully Selected and Owned by W.S. Herndon of Tyler, Smith County, Texas

Publication listing land for sale in Texas. Description of tracts in many different counties.
Date: June 1, 1888
Creator: Herndon, W.S.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Deed for land in Grimes County (open access)

Deed for land in Grimes County

Deed for land in Grimes County, Ira M. Camp selling to Charles L. Miller
Date: December 3, 1881
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Simon from Edwin Harrington & Son] (open access)

[Letter to Simon from Edwin Harrington & Son]

Papers of Alexander Simon. Letter to Simon from Edwin Harrington & Son, "Manufacturers of Iron Planers, Lathes, Drills, Patent Portable Hoists, and Other Machinists' Tools" regarding an order for a portable hoist.
Date: October 2, 1882
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Land grant (open access)

Land grant

Land grant for 640 acres in Lamar County to William Brackein from the State of Texas, Austin; signed by Gov. George T. Wood at Austin
Date: 1883
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Envelope addressed to Johnson Moorhead] (open access)

[Envelope addressed to Johnson Moorhead]

Papers of Johnson Moorhead. Envelope addressed to Johnson Moorhead of Lamar, CO with stamps in Saline, MO; Springfield, CO; and Lamar, CO.
Date: January 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Photo of Survivors of Battle of San Jacinto

Photograph of the Survivors of the Battle of San Jacinto, at a meeting of the Texas Veterans' Association at Galveston c. 1880. Center row, third from left: Valentine Ignatius Burch of Tyler County, Texas. Center row, second from left: Valentine Burch. Front row, second from right: George Petty of Washington County. Center row, far right: John W. McHorse.
Date: 1880
Creator: Naschke
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Preliminary Annotated Check List of the Cretaceous Invertebrate Fossils of Texas, Accompanied by a Short Description of the Lithology and Stratigraphy of the System (open access)

A Preliminary Annotated Check List of the Cretaceous Invertebrate Fossils of Texas, Accompanied by a Short Description of the Lithology and Stratigraphy of the System

Front cover of a paper put out by the Texas Geological Survey.
Date: 1889
Creator: Texas Geological and Mineralogical Survey
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Testimony on the alleged election outrages in Texas (open access)

Testimony on the alleged election outrages in Texas

Testimony regarding election problems in Texas.
Date: 1889
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Privileges and Elections.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
A description of Texas, its advantages and resources, with some account of their development, past, present and future (open access)

A description of Texas, its advantages and resources, with some account of their development, past, present and future

A book describing economic conditions in Texas in the early 1880s.
Date: 1881
Creator: Roberts, Oran Milo
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
A preliminary annotated check list of the Cretaceous invertebrate fossils of Texas accompanied by a short description of the lithology and stratigraphy of the system (open access)

A preliminary annotated check list of the Cretaceous invertebrate fossils of Texas accompanied by a short description of the lithology and stratigraphy of the system

A book "defining the stratigraphic arrangement and composition of the rocks composing the two Cretaceous series of Texas."
Date: 1889
Creator: Hill, Robert Thomas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Handbill announcing Garfield's death (open access)

Handbill announcing Garfield's death

Copy of the "Last Bulletin" announcing the death of President James Garfield, Sept. 19, 1881, 11:30 p.m., Elberon, N.J.
Date: September 19, 1881
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
History of the Regulators and Moderators and the Shelby County War in 1841 and 1842, in the Republic of Texas (open access)

History of the Regulators and Moderators and the Shelby County War in 1841 and 1842, in the Republic of Texas

Front cover of a history about politics in the Republic of Texas.
Date: 1883
Creator: Middleton, John W.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Report card of Clara Simon, 1888] (open access)

[Report card of Clara Simon, 1888]

Papers of Alexander Simon. Report card of Simon's daughter, Clara.
Date: 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Report card of Clara Simon, 1887] (open access)

[Report card of Clara Simon, 1887]

Papers of Alexander Simon. Report card of Simon's daughter, Clara.
Date: 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Report card of Clara Simon, 1886] (open access)

[Report card of Clara Simon, 1886]

Papers of Alexander Simon. Report card of Simon's daughter, Clara.
Date: 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt to Simon from C.B. Breedlove, 1886] (open access)

[Receipt to Simon from C.B. Breedlove, 1886]

Papers of Alexander Simon. Receipt to Simon from C.B. Breedlove from the office of D.W. Bloombargh & Co., for $200.
Date: March 11, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram to Alexander Simon from Sol Heidingsfelder of Houston] (open access)

[Telegram to Alexander Simon from Sol Heidingsfelder of Houston]

Papers of Alexander Simon. Telegram to Simon from Sol Heidingsfelder of Houston; "Break the news gently to mother of Babys death funeral tomorrow answer if coming."
Date: May 21, 1884
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sworn statement (open access)

Sworn statement

Notarized document stating that account of Mississippi Mills against S. Rubenstein of Navasota is true
Date: 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History