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Map of North America
This map shows all of North America and the surrounding area. Each of the countries is shaded in color and labeled. Major cities and some states and provinces in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada are labeled, but not all delineated. Bodies of water and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures). Prime meridian: Washington.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Texas from the most recent authorities.
This map shows the state of Texas and surrounding areas including the Apache and Comanche Indian areas, the Cross Timbers, roads, and land "explored by LeGrand in 1833." The map shows major cities, bodies of water, and geographic features (relief shown with hachures) and each of the Texas counties is colored. In the lower left corner there is an inset containing "Texas north of Red River." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Scale: [ca. 1:3,379,200].
Date:
1850~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Map of Texas, Part of Mexico and the United States]
An 1850 map of Texas, it contains many Texas landmarks. The map shows the route of the first Santa Fé Expedition; drawn and engraved by W. Kemble.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Kemble, W.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the Estate of the late Genl. Pierre Van Cortlandt, Cortlandt Town Westchester County, near Peekskill on the Hudson River : to be sold at auction by Jas. M. Miller & Co. at the mansion on the premises on Wednesday 14th August 1850 at 12 o'clock.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century acreage, tract numbers and dimensions, structures, landowners, roads, water sources, and vegetation; existing and proposed dams in Cortlandt, New York. Insets: "Section of Sprout Brook," and "Section of Peckskill River" [profile diagrams of existing and proposed dam construction]. Relief shown by hachures and by profile on insets. Scale not given.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Hart, Henry, civil engineer
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the northwestern states shewing [sic] what proportion lies north of the parallel of south bend of Lake Michigan.
Map shows midwest states from Minnesota to Ohio and Michigan Southern Railway connections from Iowa to Ohio. Scale [ca.1:2,960,000].
Date:
1850
Creator:
W. Endicott & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the organized counties of Minnesota.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century Minnesota counties, township grid, roads, cities, towns, and areas of Native American habitation for the area east of Mississippi River and west of St. Croix River. Includes text notes on map and additional text "Accompaniment to the map of Minnesota" on additional pages in covers. Inset: "Map of Minnesota Territory." Relief shown by hachures on inset. Scale [ca. 1:422,000].
Date:
1850
Creator:
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the organized counties of Minnesota,
Map shows mid-nineteenth century Minnesota counties, township grid, roads, cities, towns, and areas of Native American habitation for the area east of Mississippi River and west of St. Croix River. Includes text notes on map and additional text "Accompaniment to the map of Minnesota" on additional pages in covers. Inset: "Map of Minnesota Territory." Relief shown by hachures on inset. Scale [ca. 1:422,000].
Date:
1850
Creator:
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the organized counties of Minnesota [Accompanying Text].
Explanation and supporting information related to map that shows mid-nineteenth century Minnesota counties, township grid, roads, cities, towns, and areas of Native American habitation for the area east of Mississippi River and west of St. Croix River.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the organized counties of Minnesota [Accompanying Text].
Explanation and supporting information related to map that shows mid-nineteenth century Minnesota counties, township grid, roads, cities, towns, and areas of Native American habitation for the area east of Mississippi River and west of St. Croix River.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the principal gold quartz mines or lodes in El Dorado County, California showing the position of the New York and El Dorado Co.'s lodes, Wanderer, New England, Vanderbilt, and Yosemite.
Map shows towns, general locations of gold mines and lodes, U.S. Mail route through Placerville, mining companies, and site of Sutter's "first discovery of gold." Inset details overland route from San Francisco to Placerville. Scale not given.
Date:
1850?
Creator:
Howe and Perry
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the United States and their territories between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean; and part of Mexico.
In its entirety, map shows geography, settlements, and cities in the mid-nineteenth United States and bordering countries. This portion of the two-part map shows part of Mexico and Texas. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,200,000].
Date:
1850
Creator:
United States Topographical Engineers
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Map of the United States, Mexico, and Central America showing the limit of frontier stations]
Map shows the extent of mid-nineteenth century military outposts just west of the Mississippi River, the route of the Rifle Regiment [the Oregon Expedition] in 1849, roads, ocean, and river routes. U.S. Boundaries with British possessions and Mexico are highlighted. Transportation lines are depicted in red and blue, frontier stations in red, and boundaries in yellow. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date:
[1850..1853]
Creator:
Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the western states.
Map shows township grid, counties, railroads, canals, roads, mining activity, cities, towns, and notable physical features. Includes reference and illustrations; descriptive text, routes, and distances in accompanying pages. Insets: [illustrations of] "Detroit," "Cincinnati," "St. Louis," and "Chicago." Scale [ca. 1:2,304,000].
Date:
1850
Creator:
Atwood, John M., b. ca. 1818
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the western states [Accompanying Text].
Explanation and supporting information related to map that shows township grid, counties, railroads, canals, roads, mining activity, cities, towns, and notable physical features.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Atwood, John M., b. ca. 1818
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Map of United States military posts and connecting transportation routes prior to 1846].
Map shows western trails and forts, lines of transportation, communication, and locations of old and new military posts in the United States. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not noted.
Date:
1850?/1859?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexican Boundary from Texas to California.
Map shows major cities, military outposts, boundary lines for Old California, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. Includes dates in notes on boundary lines. Relief shown by shading. Scale [ca. 1:14,500,000].
Date:
[1850..1870]
Creator:
L.L. Poates Engr'g Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mexico & Guatemala.
Map shows department boundaries, cities, towns, notable physical features, major roads, battlegrounds, military posts, and areas of Native American habitation in Mexico; proposed canal routes for the Isthmus of Nicaragua on inset; proposed railroad route Isthmus of Tehuantepec on inset; political boundaries, cities and towns in Central America on inset; settlements and roads in the vicinity of Mexico City on inset. Includes battle dates. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:11,700,000].
Date:
1850
Creator:
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mexico & Guatemala.
Map shows department boundaries, cities, towns, notable physical features, major roads, battlegrounds, military posts, and areas of Native American habitation in Mexico; proposed canal routes for the Isthmus of Nicaragua on inset; proposed railroad route Isthmus of Tehuantepec on inset; political boundaries, cities and towns in Central America on inset; settlements and roads in the vicinity of Mexico City on inset. Includes battle dates. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:11,700,000].
Date:
1850
Creator:
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mexico & Guatemala.
Map shows department boundaries, cities, towns, notable physical features, major roads, battlegrounds, military posts, and areas of Native American habitation in Mexico; political boundaries, cities and towns for Central America on inset; settlements and roads in the vicinity of Mexico City on inset. Includes battle dates. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:11,700,000].
Date:
1850
Creator:
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mexico & Guatemala
Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington. Insets: Guatemala -- Valley of Mexico.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mississippi Boatman
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
A painting of a boatman smoking a pipe while sitting on a shipping container.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Bingham, George Caleb
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mitts
Pair of black cotton lace mitts. The wrist-length fingerless gloves are of hand-crocheted lace, in a wide mesh. Slight frill at wrist, and separate thumb. A narrow black ribbon is threaded through the cuff, one ribbon lacking.
Date:
[1850..1867]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Motherly Love
Access:
Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
A woman holds a young female child on her lap and another young female child to the side holds a doll. The setting is an interior domestic scene and next to the seated woman is a knitting basket.
Date:
1850/1893~
Creator:
Jonghe, Gustave Léonard de
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Murchison Lodge #80 Minutes: 1850-1853]
Minutes of the Freemason Murchison Lodge documenting news and activities within the group, discussions, and a ledger of dues payments.
Date:
1850/1853
Creator:
Freemasons. Murchison Lodge No. 80 (Hallettsville, Tex.)
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History