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Letter to Colonel Thomas White, 29 March 1866 (open access)

Letter to Colonel Thomas White, 29 March 1866

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: March 29, 1866
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tax receipt for Mary Jones, signed in 1860 (open access)

Tax receipt for Mary Jones, signed in 1860

Receipt documenting property tax paid by Mary Jones for the year 1859. Includes list of property.
Date: March 11, 1860
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Receipt dated March 2, 1864. (open access)

Receipt dated March 2, 1864.

Receipt dated March 2, 1864.
Date: March 2, 1864
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tax receipt dated March 1, 1862. (open access)

Tax receipt dated March 1, 1862.

Tax receipt dated March 1, 1862.
Date: March 1, 1862
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tax receipt dated March 2, 1861. (open access)

Tax receipt dated March 2, 1861.

Tax receipt dated March 2, 1861.
Date: March 2, 1861
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A man sitting in a chair and a young girl with her arm resting on him]

Tintype image of a man sitting in a chair with a young girl standing to the right of the man. Her right hand is around the man's shoulders. Her left arm is hanging by her side. His hands are in his lap. He is wearing a dark jacket, light colored pants, dark boots and a dark hat on his head. The young girl is wearing a pink dress with dark horizontal stripes and lace edging around her waist and collar. She is also wearing white stockings and dark boots. She has dark, long hair. Attached to a matte.
Date: March 7, 1865
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A young boy wearing a vertically striped gown]

Tintype image of a young boy. He is sitting on a chair with each arm resting on an arm of the chair. He is wearing a vertically striped gown with white bloomers, white stockings and dark boots. His light colored hair is slightly sticking up in the middle of his head. Part of a woman's skirt is visible in the right side of the portrait.
Date: March 7, 1865
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A man sitting in a chair and a young girl with her arm resting on him]

Tintype image of a man sitting in a chair with a young girl standing to the right of the man. Her right hand is around the man's shoulders. Her left arm is hanging by her side. His hands are in his lap. He is wearing a dark jacket, light colored pants, dark boots and a dark hat on his head. The young girl is wearing a pink dress with dark horizontal stripes and lace edging around her waist and collar. She is also wearing white stockings and dark boots. She has dark, long hair. Attached to a matte. Same image as 2000.083.004
Date: March 7, 1865
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A man wearing a dark coat, vest, hat, and tie with a white collared shirt]

Oval tintype photograph of a man. He is wearing a dark coat, vest and tie with a white collared shirt. He has a long goatee and some of his dark curly hair is sticking out on either side under the dark hat on his head. On bottom of matte, handwritten: "Willie K Jo__s". Attached to a cardboard substrate. On right edge of substrate, embossed: "POTTERS PATENT MARCH 7, 1865".
Date: March 7, 1865
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bust photograph of a man wearing a dark coat and a white tie]

Oval bust tintype photograph of man. He is wearing a dark coat, white collared shirt and a large white tie. He has a short goatee. Attached to a cardboard substrate. On right edge of substrate, embossed: "POTTERS PATENT MARCH 7, 1865".
Date: March 7, 1865
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A young girl wearing a pale green sweater]

Oval tintype photograph of a young girl. She is wearing a pale green sweater, unbuttoned, with black edging and a white collar. She has a pink shirt on underneath. Her long, dark hair is parted down the middle and flowing to her back. Attached to a cardboard substrate. On right edge of substrate, embossed: "POTTERS PATENT MARCH 7, 1865".
Date: March 7, 1865
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Ezekial George from the neck up]

Tintype photograph of Ezekial George. It is an oval, head shot that shows he is wearing a high-neck collar and a dark tie. He has a mustache on his face. Picture is enclosed in an ivory matte. Embossed on the far left side of the matte: "POTTERS PATENT MARCH 7 1865"
Date: March 7, 1865
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Albert Lamar George as a young boy, sitting with his legs crossed]

Tintype photograph of Albert Lamar George as a young boy. He is seated in a chair with his left leg placed over his right. He appears to be holding something in his hands in his lap. He has a white, ruffled shirt on and a dark hat with a feather sticking out of the back. The photograph is enclosed in an ivory matte. Embossed on far left side of matte: " POTTERS PATENT MARCH 7 1865"
Date: March 7, 1865
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Edward S. Burch to his sister, Sarah Zimmerman, March 1860] (open access)

[Letter from Edward S. Burch to his sister, Sarah Zimmerman, March 1860]

Letter from Edward S. Burch to his sister, Sarah Zimmerman, regarding the sale of some 30 negroes from their uncle's estate. Lois Jean Cooper Mayer Collection, Supplement 2
Date: March 1860
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
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.
Object Type: Artwork
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.
Object Type: Artwork
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt to Alexander Simon from Z. Motley for slave, Rubin, 1860] (open access)

[Receipt to Alexander Simon from Z. Motley for slave, Rubin, 1860]

Papers of Alexander Simon. Receipt to Simon from Z. Motley for payment of $1500 for male slave, Rubin.
Date: March 13, 1860
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jesse Grimes to his wife Rosanna Grimes, March 18, 1861] (open access)

[Letter from Jesse Grimes to his wife Rosanna Grimes, March 18, 1861]

Papers of Jesse Grimes. Letter from Jesse Grimes to Rosanna Grimes (wife) concerning trip to Austin, mentions death of William Grimes due to pneumonia.
Date: March 18, 1861
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Hartsford Howard, March 23 1864] (open access)

[Receipt for Hartsford Howard, March 23 1864]

Receipt for Hartsford Howard for the amount of five dollars. The payment was for a subscription to the Galveston Tri-Weekly News from March 23, 1864 to September 23, 1864. The document was signed by W. Richardson.
Date: March 23, 1864
Creator: Richardson, W.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Milton Parks from cousin, March 30 1865 (open access)

[Letter to Milton Parks from cousin, March 30 1865

This letter written to Milton Parks by his cousin "Bub". The letter is dated 03-30-1865
Date: March 30, 1865
Creator: Parks, Milton
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The True Issue (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 35, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 5, 1863 (open access)

The True Issue (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 35, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 5, 1863

Weekly newspaper from La Grange, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 5, 1863
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Ledger and Texan (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 385, Ed. 1, Friday, March 1, 1861 (open access)

The Daily Ledger and Texan (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 385, Ed. 1, Friday, March 1, 1861

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 1, 1861
Creator: Dashiell, J. Y. & MacLeod, A. E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Ledger and Texan (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 387, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 5, 1861 (open access)

The Daily Ledger and Texan (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 387, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 5, 1861

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 5, 1861
Creator: Dashiell, J. Y. & MacLeod, A. E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Ledger and Texan (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 388, Ed. 1, Wednesday, March 6, 1861 (open access)

The Daily Ledger and Texan (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 388, Ed. 1, Wednesday, March 6, 1861

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 6, 1861
Creator: Dashiell, J. Y. & MacLeod, A. E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History