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Title of Land to John Adkinson
Original grant signed by Anson Jones with seal of General Land Office (detached)
Date:
July 22, 1845
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Texas and the Country Adjacent
Hand-colored lithograph of Texas with statistics and references in lower left
Date:
1844
Creator:
Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spillholders
Pair of clear pressed glass spillholders with ground off pontil mark; design has strawberry diamonds and a large diamond with punty; some mold roughness; may be a Sandwich pattern
Date:
1840~/1860~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Campaign ribbon
James K. Polk/George M. Dallas campaign ribbon; political campaign in which annexation of Texas was an issue
Date:
1844~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of Messrs. Butler and Lewis relative to the Indians of Texas and the southwestern prairies
Descriptions of Texas Indians of the Republic period; mention of captive Parker children
Date:
February 8, 1847
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
"Sweets for the Leisure Hours, or Flowers of Instruction"
Child's book, "moral, instructive, and entertaining" "for the mind and eyes"
Date:
1840
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Summons for Isaac Mitchell
Summons for Isaac Mitchell to appear before the District Court judge in Washington County regarding petition of H. Chiairs and Samuel P. Baskins. Handwritten in ink.
Date:
February 22, 1840
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Percussion shotgun
A composite gun made from various parts: blacksmith- made trigger guard; copper ramrod holders; wooden ramrod. Stamped on stock at butt: “LEVYON MADE MC LAWS PLANTA. 1841”; lockplate: “GOLCHER”; barrel: “_____PHILAD___”; possibly "slave made”"
Date:
1841
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mexico & Guatemala
Hand-colored engraving of Mexico and Guatemala showing towns, rivers, and topography
Date:
1842
Creator:
Findlay, Alexander G.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
"Amerique Septentrionale"
Hand-colored map of North America showing settlements, rivers, and mountains
Date:
1840
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lace collar
Black lace fichu sewn into mesh-like material; from Calais, Vermont, dating before 1840.
Date:
[..1840]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Copy of land grant to George H. Bringhurst]
Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Papers. Copy of land grant to George H. Bringhurst for one-third of a league of land in Harris County and about 28 miles northwest of Houston; granted by President Anson Jones
Date:
October 10, 1845
Creator:
Jones, Anson
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
"R.H. Leetch and Bros., Day Book, Brazos Santiago, Feby 24, 1849"
None
Date:
February 24, 1849
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Commission for Justice of the Peace]
Commission by A.C. Horton, Governor of Texas, appointing John H. Seward as Justice of the Peace for Washington County.
Date:
October 8, 1846
Creator:
Horton, Albert C.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Court Order
James B. Miller, administrator for the estate of William Barret Travis, ordered to collect $13.55 from James H. Holt by the County Court of Washington County
Date:
July 1, 1847
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Speech of Mr. Clayton of Delaware, Delivered at the Whig Mass Meeting Held in Wilmington on the 15th of June, 1844.
Front cover of the text of a speech concerning the tariff of 1842.
Date:
1844
Creator:
Clayton, John M. (John Middleton), 1796-1856
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General Jackson's Fine
First page of an editorial criticizing the conduct of Whig Party in regard to public printing.
Date:
January 31, 1843
Creator:
Pearce, Mr.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Public Lands
First page of a tract that is part of a series; this one addresses public lands."
Date:
May 1844
Creator:
Junius
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Effect of the Tariff of 1842; on the Agricultural and Other Interest of the West.
Front cover of a letter compiled by a Democratic Convention committee.
Date:
1845
Creator:
Democratic Convention
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
"Message from the President of the United States in Reply to a resolution of the Senate of the 19th December, 1844, requesting information in relation to various treaty stipulations between Texas and other independent Powers"
28th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Doc.
Date:
January 7, 1845
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
America
Map of the western hemisphere; it is a hand-colored engraving showing settlements and topography. Countries are outlined in various colors.
Date:
1844
Creator:
Arrowsmith, J.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Description of Oregon and California, embracing An Account of The Gold Regions; to which is added, An Appendix, containing descriptions of various kinds of gold, and methods of testing its genuineness.
Front cover and spine of the folio, and front cover and title page of a text containing a hand-colored, engraved pocket map of the western half of the United States showing roads, settlements, and rivers with "explanation" in lower left corner.
Date:
1849
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dress
Embroidered baby dress with some open work made by Mrs. Anson Jones for her son, Cromwell Anson Jones, b.1849, Barrington
Date:
1849
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Enlistees of F Company, 1st Regiment of Infantry, Texas Army]
Listing of soldiers who received bounties from Captain J.B.P. January for enlisting in F Company of the First Regiment of Infantry, Texas Army. January led the company as part of Colonel Edward Burleson's 1839-40 campaign against Comanches in northwestern Texas.
Date:
[1840-01-28..]
Creator:
January, J. B. P.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History