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Wanting to Warm It: Daikon Radishes from Higo Province

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A woman wearing a dark striped kimono has her back to the viewer and she appears to be stamping something. In the scene in the distance, several men are engaged in an activity. Japanese text is included in several insets along the right hand side of the print.
Date: 1852
Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi & Utagawa Yoshitori-jo
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wanting to Wear This: Hida Province

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A woman in a brown flowered and blue and black striped kimono leans forward while holding folded fabric. Behind her is a scene of men with a fishing net between two boats in the water. Japanese text is included in small insets in the composition of the print.
Date: 1852
Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi & Utagawa Yoshi-jo
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wapanucka Institute - Chickasaw Rock Academy

Photograph of the Wapanucka Female Manual Labour School, which was later called the Wapanucka Institute. The building, built one level at a time in 1852, was also known as the Chickasaw Rock Academy, and was located south of Bromide, Oklahoma.
Date: 1852
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Western Hemisphere]

Map shows geography, political boundaries, and major cities in North America and South America. Relief shown by hachures. No scale provided.
Date: 1852
Creator: J. & C. Walker (Firm)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Williams' traveller's guide through the United States and Canada.

Map shows United States territorial boundaries, railroads, common roads, canals, swamps, military posts, areas of Native American habitation, cities and towns; streets, structures, and harbor detail for city and harbor of Havana. Insets: "Map of the Niagara River and Falls," "Map of California, Oregon, New Mexico, Utah &c.," "Map of the island of Cuba," and "City & harbor of Havana." Includes "explanation" and notes. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights on insets. Depths by soundings on insets. Scale [ca. 1:4,110,000].
Date: 1852
Creator: Williams, W.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Williams' traveller's guide through the United States and Canada [Accompanying Text].

Explanation and supporting information related to map that shows United States territorial boundaries, railroads, common roads, canals, swamps, military posts, areas of Native American habitation, cities and towns; streets, structures, and harbor detail for city and harbor of Havana.
Date: 1852
Creator: Williams, W.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

The World in hemispheres with comparative views of the heights of the principal mountains and basins of the principal rivers on the globe.

Map shows drainage of major rivers and relative heights of mountains throughout the Earth. Mountain heights are given in English feet. Insets: "Basins of the Amazon and Tocantins," "Basin of the La Plata," "Gt. Lakes & St. Lawrence," "Basin of the Mississippi & Missouri," "Basins of the Rhine, Danube & Dnieper," "Basins of the Volga & Ural," "Basins of the Indus," "Basins of the Ganges, Irawady," and "Basins of the Yenesei." Scale not given.
Date: [1852..1864]
Creator: Swanston, George H.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

The World on an equatorial projection: map of the eastern & western hermispheres.

Map shows geography, cities, and place names of continents viewed in the western hemisphere, eastern hemisphere, northern hemisphere, and southern hemisphere. Includes information on "Recent Antarctic Discoveries." Relief shown by hachures, spot heights, and pictorially. No scale noted.
Date: 1852
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Yamashiro Province

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A woman wearing a highly patterned kimono looks out a window or door at a man climbing a tree. There are several insets with Japanese text.
Date: 1852
Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library