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Travis County Clerk Records: Commissioners Court Road Index (open access)

Travis County Clerk Records: Commissioners Court Road Index

Partial index to Travis County road matters recorded in the Commissioners Court minutes from 1850-1958, showing name, location, precinct, class, width, and length of road; plat; file number; and book and page number where recorded in the minutes. Recorded alphabetically by name of road.
Date: 1850~/1958~
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two unidentified men sitting in wooden chairs with their legs crossed]

Tintype image of two unidentified men sitting in wooden chairs. Man on left is wearing knee high boots plaid pants, white shirt, jacket, and hat. He has his left ankle crossed over his right knee. He is holding a whiskey bottle in his left hand. The man on the left is wearing boots, dark pants (cuffed at the ankles), vest, jacket, white shirt, and hat. He has his left leg crossed over his right. His right arm is around the shoulders of the man to his right. The photo is securely taped in a white paper frame with oval cut. There is embossed pattern around the perimeter of the oval.
Date: [1850..1910]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Union, past and future: how it works, and how to save it (open access)

The Union, past and future: how it works, and how to save it

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Date: 1850
Creator: Garnett, Muscoe R. H. (Muscoe Russell Hunter), 1821-1864
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

The United States : & the relative position of the Oregon & Texas.

Map shows geography and boundaries in the mid-nineteenth century United States. Inset: "Great Britain, on the same scale." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:10,500,000].
Date: 1850?
Creator: Wyld, James, 1812-1887
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Valuable Property in the 5th Ward of the City of Buffalo N.Y.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century Buffalo, New York street names, lot numbers, and lot dimensions. Inset shows overview with some section numbers, street names, canals, and building locations. Scale not given.
Date: 1850?
Creator: Miller & Co.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika [Sheet 1]

Map shows state and territorial boundaries, railroads, canals, cities and towns, marshlands, and areas of Native American habitation. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1863]
Creator: Handtke, F. (Friedrich), 1815-1879
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika [Sheet 1].

Map shows mid-nineteenth century state boundaries, territorial boundaries, railroads, canals, cities, towns, marshlands, and areas of Native American habitation in North America. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1863]
Creator: Handtke, F. (Friedrich), 1815-1879
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika [Sheet 2]

Map shows mid-nineteenth century state boundaries, territorial boundaries, railroads, canals, cities, towns, marshlands, and areas of Native American habitation in North America. Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1863]
Creator: Handtke, F. (Friedrich), 1815-1879
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika [Sheet 3]

Map shows state and territorial boundaries, railroads, canals, cities and towns, marshlands, and areas of Native American habitation. Inset: "Schildkroten In." [Galapagos Islands]. Includes number key and table of statistics. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1863]
Creator: Handtke, F. (Friedrich), 1815-1879
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika [Sheet 3]

Map shows mid-nineteenth century state boundaries, territorial boundaries, railroads, canals, cities, towns, marshlands, and areas of Native American habitation in North America. Includes number key and table of statistics. Inset: "Galapagos (Schildkröten In)." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1863]
Creator: Handtke, F. (Friedrich), 1815-1879
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika [Sheet 4]

Map shows state and territorial boundaries, railroads, canals, cities and towns, marshlands, and areas of Native American habitation. Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1863]
Creator: Handtke, F. (Friedrich), 1815-1879
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika [Sheet 4].

Map shows mid-nineteenth century state boundaries, territorial boundaries, railroads, canals, cities, towns, marshlands, and areas of Native American habitation in North America. Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1863]
Creator: Handtke, F. (Friedrich), 1815-1879
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vortrag die Beschaffung der Fonds Betr (open access)

Vortrag die Beschaffung der Fonds Betr

Report on the condition of funds, which the General Agent Bene submitted on Jan 22, 1850, for partial provision of the Adelsverein in Texas.
Date: 1850~
Creator: Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

Waller Family Coat of Arms

Print of the Waller family coat of arms. Painted by Odine Mhoon. Odine was married to Sam Rayburn's nephew Morris Lightfoot in 1956. They divorced and Morris eventually remarried. The ivory colored paper displays the Waller coat of arms in shades of brown, black, gold, gray, white, blue, green and red. A shield at center shows three gold walnut leaves between two silver bands. At the top is a walnut tree with a pendant shoing three fleurs de lis (the arms of France) with the motto above, "HIC FRUCTUS VIRTUTIS" which is Latin for "This is the reward of integrity." The word "Waller" is below the coat of arms and is written in cursive.
Date: 1850/1969
Creator: Odine Mhoon
Object Type: Artwork
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washington County legal documents (open access)

Washington County legal documents

Bill of sale from William G. Fisher to A. Payne for 350 acres.
Date: 1850~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washington County legal documents (open access)

Washington County legal documents

Bond between John G. W. Pierson of Montgomery County and James K. T. Walton and Lewis G. Dupree of Washington county with William Tom for $2,000 for three negro slaves.
Date: 1850~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Western Hemisphere.

Map shows cities and major political boundaries on the continents of North America, South America, Oceania, and the "Bhering Sea" between Asia and "Russian America." Includes illustrations of people and animals in twelve circular vignettes surrounding the map. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1854]
Creator: Rapkin, J.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

“Winter Sun in the Engadin” by Peder Monsted

Color print of “Winter Sun in the Engadin” by Peder Monsted. A creek runs through the middle of the print. The water in the creek is very clear. Leafless trees can be seen on either side of the creek. A wood fence can be seen on the left side of the image. Cloudy sky above and in background.
Date: 1850/1969
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Artwork
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wolf Mask

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
The wooden mask appears to be that of an animal such as a wolf. Behind the mask, circular pieces hold the face and the hanging decorative elements from the head of the animal. The head is painted black and white.
Date: 1850/1875
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wool hat

Hat of off-white wool yarn and beads. Hat is based on a fanchon style, consisting of a knitted, somewhat diamond-shaped piece to fit across top of head and extending down sides to the ears, with wide off-white silk ribbon ties at end of extensions. Unlike a regular fanchon, which is solely of a piece of flat lace, this cap has a deep pile of the same wool yarn over the entire surface of the cap, each piece tipped with a cylindrical frosted white bead.
Date: 1850
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library