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Navy bonnet
Navy silk velvet bonnet with large matching bow on left crown. Black taffeta ties.
Date:
1840
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
New Hampshire & Vermont.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century New Hampshire and Vermont railroads, roads, canals, counties, cities, towns, lakes, and rivers. Includes statistical tables and explanation. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:895,000].
Date:
1840
Creator:
Tanner, Henry Schenck, 1786-1858
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A new map of Maine.
Map shows counties, roads, railroads, treaty boundary lines, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Includes distances between points, and statistical tables on population. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,584,000].
Date:
1840
Creator:
Tanner, Henry Schenck, 1786-1858
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A New map of the United States and Mexico.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century cities, states, international boundaries, areas of Native American habitation, Oregon Territory, and Missouri Territory in the United States. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:22,000,000].
Date:
1840?
Creator:
Yeager, Joseph, ca. 1792-1859
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New York.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century New York counties, cities, towns, railroads, canals, and rivers. Includes text in panel below map, text and illustrations on verso. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:2,982,000].
Date:
[1840..1850]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North America.
Map shows cities, military posts, and political boundaries of Russian America, British America, the United States, Mexico, and a separate Texas. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [1:21,120,000].
Date:
[1840..1848]
Creator:
J. & C. Walker
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North America.
Map shows cities, military posts, areas of Indian habitation, "Russian Territory," "British Territory," the United States, Mexico, and a separate Texas. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:31, 200, 000].
Date:
[1840..1848]
Creator:
Hall, Sidney
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North America.
Map shows cities, military posts, and political boundaries of Russian America, British America, the United States, Mexico, and a separate Texas. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [1:21,120,000].
Date:
[1840..1848]
Creator:
J. & C. Walker
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North America.
Map shows cities, military posts, areas of Indian habitation, "Russian Territory," "British Territory," the United States, Mexico, and a separate Texas. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:31, 200, 000].
Date:
[1840..1848]
Creator:
Hall, Sidney
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The North-west-coast of North America and adjacent territories.
Map shows Russian Possessions, treat boundaries between United States and Spanish Possessions (1819) and British Possessions (1818), physical landmarks, "wagon road to Santa Fe," major settlements and forts. Includes image and note: "Facsimile of a Medal struck at Boston in 1787 on occasion of the departure of the vessels Columbia and Washington for the North West Coast of America...." Inset: The North Pacific Ocean and the adjacent coasts and islands. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date:
1840
Creator:
Burr, David H., 1803-1875
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nouvelle carte du Mexique, du Texas et d'une partie des états limitrophes.
Map shows the geography and settlements of 1840 Mexico and the Republic of Texas along with adjoining areas of the United States. Insets: "détails des environs de Mexico et de la Vera-Cruz" [details near Mexico City and Vera Cruz] and "complément de la carte donnant le Yucatan et une partie des provinces unies de l'Amérique Centrale" [supplement to the map for the Yucatan part of the United Provinces of Central America]. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:5,000,000].
Date:
1840
Creator:
Brué, Adrien Hubert, 1786-1832
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ohio.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century Ohio counties, canals, railroads, cities, towns, township grid, and notable physical features. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,300,000].
Date:
[1840..1845]
Creator:
Morse, Sidney E. (Sidney Edwards), 1794-1871
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oval portrait of William Kinchen Davis with his hair parted]
Copy of an original oval portrait of William Kinchen Davis. Davis, who has his dark hair parted on his right side, is wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and a dark bow tie. Portrait ends just above the waist. Back of photograph in pencil: "Copy of original property of Mrs. A. Y. (Virginia) Scarborough Richmond, Texas 6-1981" and at bottom of back in pencil: "WKD/ph. 1:1".
Date:
[1840..1855]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Paper print of Henry Jones]
Salted paper print of Henry Jones. The bust portrait was cut into an oval and placed on a tan cardboard substrate. Jones, who has his hair parted on the side and has a beard, is wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and dark tie. Image dimensions are: 13.6 cm X 18.5 cm.
Date:
[1840..1861]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Firemen and Steamer]
Photograph of firemen and a steamer from the Orange Fire Department posing in front of a clapboard building. The steamer and the men's faces have been colored.
Date:
[1840..1850]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of six men with a dog]
Photograph of six men with a dog. The men are wearing suits and cowboy hats. Three of the men (standing in back row) have numbers written above their images (1, 2, 3). Man on far left of back row is holding a gun. In the front row, there is a man seated cross-legged on the floor, a man sitting in a chair with a dog between his knees, and another man seated cross-legged on the floor on far right. Written on back of photograph in pencil: "1. Mr. Tom McGee 2. Mr. Charlie Farmer 3. Henry Jones 4 ? 5 ? 6 Frank Bell".
Date:
[1840..1855]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Thomas L. Willis]
Portrait of Doctor Thomas L. Willis, visible from his head to his upper chest. He is wearing a double-breasted suit, and has a beard down to his chest.
Date:
[1840..1889]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Thomas L. Willis]
Portrait of Doctor Thomas L. Willis seated in front of a decorated wall or backdrop. He is looking down, with his arm resting on the arm of the chair. He has a handlebar mustache, and is wearing a suit.
Date:
[1840..1889]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Poetic Gift : or, Alphabet in Rhyme
Child's pictorial primer with the alphabet, and wood-cut illustrated rhymes to teach the letters.
Date:
1840/1849
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Porcelain brooch
Hand-painted porcelain brooch in purple, violet design. Floral design rimmed in black line and gilt paint. Mounted on brass back with pin.
Date:
1840/1849
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Porcelain brooch
Hand-painted porcelain brooch in blue forget-me-not design. Floral design rimmed in black line and gilt paint. Mounted on brass back with pin.
Date:
1840/1849
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Portrait of E.G. Sewell]
Portrait of E.G. Sewell, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a dark-colored suit and an overcoat. Note on the back of the photograph reads, "B.Z. Cannaway, Resident Artist, East Side Public Square, Franklin, KY."
Date:
[1840..1924]
Creator:
Cannaway, B. Z.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of James W. Harding]
Portrait of James W. Harding, visible from the shoulders up, wearing a dark-colored suit. Note on the back of the photograph reads, "J.C. Elrod, Louisville, KY. Is this Jeff. H??'s Father? Photograph Galleries, 313 Jefferson, below Third Street, ground floor, and 428 Main, below Fourth Street, duplicates can be ordered."
Date:
[1840..1919]
Creator:
Elrod, J. C.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of John Matthews]
Photograph of John Matthews sitting for a portrait. He wears a coat, vest, and shirt, and is staring forward.
Date:
1840~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History