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[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
Access:
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
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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
Neueste Karte von Mexico
Map of Mexico. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridians: Ferro and Paris. Includes key to location of Mexican states and Texas. Upper left margin: Meyers - Grosser Zeitungs - Atlas. Upper right margin: No. 65. From the Virginia Garrett Cartographic Collections.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Radefeld, Carl Christian Franz
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Neueste karte von Mexico : Nach den besten Quellen entw. u. gezeichen.
Map shows Map shows provinces, cities, and towns of Mexico during the mid-nineteenth century. Includes key to location of Mexican states and Texas. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. No scale noted.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Radefeld, Carl Christian Franz, 1788-1874
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A new map of Arkansas with its canals, roads and distances.
Atlas map of Arkansas, showing finished and proposed canals, railroads, major roads, towns, and rivers. A key at the top of the map shows the steamboat routes and distances from Little Rock to New Orleans, Little Rock to Pittsburgh, and Little Rock to Fort Gibson. Scale [ca. 1:2,280,960] (approximately 36 miles to the inch).
Date:
1850?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A new map of Louisiana: with its canals, roads & distances from place to place along the stage & steam boat routes.
Map shows mid-nineteenth century geography, parishes, towns, and cities in Louisiana. Includes distance tables of "New Orleans to Pittsburg", "New Orl. to Natchitoches" and "N. Orleans to the Balize." Inset: "New Orleans." Scale [ca. 1:2,000,000].
Date:
1850?
Creator:
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A new map of the state of California, the territories of Oregon and Utah, and the chief part of New Mexico.
Atlas map of the newly formed state of California and the territories of Utah, New Mexico, and Oregon. The map includes boundary lines, major towns, early settlement roads, bodies of water, and other geologic features, with relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:6,969,600] (110 miles to the inch).
Date:
1850
Creator:
Thomas Cowperthwait & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A new map of the United States of America.
Map shows railroads, major cities and towns, routes of exploration, major roads, areas of Native American habitation, and battlefields. Includes "explanation" and notes. Insets: "Gold region of California" and "District of Columbia." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A new map of the world on the globular projection.
Map shows explorers routes, political boundaries, major cities, and notable physical features. Includes dates.
Date:
1850
Creator:
Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nineteenth-century Replica of Gargoyle on the Balustrade of the Grande Galerie, Notre Dame Cathedral
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
The sculpted creature acts as a gargoyle on the cathedral.
Date:
1850~/1879~
Creator:
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nineteenth-century Replica of Gargoyle on the Balustrade of the Grande Galerie, Notre Dame Cathedral
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
The gargoyle is situated on the exterior of the cathedral. The sculpted creature leans on the railing and overlooks the city.
Date:
1850~/1879~
Creator:
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Object Type:
Physical Object
System:
The UNT Digital Library
North America.
Map shows Russian America [Alaska], British Territory, Greenland, the United States, Mexico, "Guatimala," and the "West India Islands" and areas of native inhabitants. Texas is shown without panhandle area. Includes illustrations: "Esquimaux dog-sledge," "Mounta Hekla," "Beavers," "Falls of Niagara," "Convoy of diamonds," "Ancient monument," "Mexico," "North American Indians," "Wapiti Deer," and "Cossacks." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:35,000,000].
Date:
[1850..1854]
Creator:
Rapkin, J.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North America.
Map shows Russian America [Alaska], British Territory, Greenland, the United States, Mexico, "Guatimala," and the "West India Islands" and areas of native inhabitants. Texas is shown without panhandle area. Includes illustrations: "Esquimaux dog-sledge," "Mounta Hekla," "Beavers," "Falls of Niagara," "Convoy of diamonds," "Ancient monument," "Mexico," "North American Indians," "Wapiti Deer," and "Cossacks." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:35,000,000].
Date:
[1850..1854]
Creator:
Rapkin, J.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Orbis Romanus Christianus.
Map shows early establishment of the Roman Catholic church in western and southeastern Europe as the Holy Roman Empire and along the coastal areas of the Mediterranean; travels of Jesus and his apostles in Palestine and of the apostle Paul in the areas between Greece and Jerusalem. Includes reference linking Paul's travels as shown on map to Biblical verses in Acts and a key to apostles' locations. Insets: "Palaestina Jesu et Apostolorum temporibus" [Palestine of Jesus and the apostles' times] and "Itinera St. Pauli tria majora et via qua Captus Romam navi defertur" [The three major routes of Saint Paul after he was taken prisoner and transported by ship]. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date:
[1850..1870]
Creator:
Alabern, P. (Pablo)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photo of boy and girl in front of fireplace
Photograph of two children. The two children stand in front of a brick fireplace and mantel. The black and white photo appears to be circa 1950. The girl wears a light colored, short-sleeved, knee-length dress, white socks, black mary jane shoes and a ribbon in her hair. The boy wears dark slacks, a plaid sport coat, white button-down shirt and dark tie. A white pocket square is barely visible in his left pocket. He also wears dark colored shoes. The children are looking at one another in this photo. The girl has her left arm around they boy's waist, the boy has his right arm over the girl's right shoulder. In the background is a brick fireplace, with a mantel that appears to have Christmas cards displayed upon it. There is a glass vase or candle holder in the center of hte mantel. Pale, striped wallpaper can be seen above the mantel. A fireplace tool set stands at the right of the children along with a broom. The children stand on the bricked hearth.
Date:
1850/1969
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photo of Sam Rayburn beside cabin in Lenoir, Tennessee
Photograph of Sam Rayburn standing beside the cabin of his birth in Lenoir, Tennessee. Sam Rayburn is wearing a light colored suit, with white button down shirt and a dark tie. He wears a white Panama hat with a dark colored band. He stands resting his right hand on the side of the cabin. The cabin pictured is constructed of rough cut wood. It is two stories high and and the exterior of a stone fireplace stands to the left of Rayburn. The ground is covered with tall grass and weeds. The photo is black and white.
Date:
1850/1969
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History