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Abilene Library Consortium
1,418
Sayles and Sayles Collection
752
The Brand (Abilene, TX)
327
Texas Digital Newspaper Program
327
T. N. Carswell Collection
84
Jesse Wallace Williams Map Collection
51
Hardin-Simmons Photograph Collection
38
William J. Bryan Collection
33
Abilene Photograph Collection
22
Hardin-Simmons University Catalogs
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The Simmons Brand
157
The Brand
100
The H-SU Brand
70
A. D. Fulton vs. Gulf Pipe Line Company et al.
17
W. O. Rainwater vs. Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company
15
Bulletin: Hardin-Simmons University Ex-Student Roundup
10
The Bronco
10
Corral
8
Sam Underwood et al. vs. Gulf Refining Company
7
The State of Texas vs. Mrs. Hattie M. Sayles
5
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School Pictures
1 Copy negative of 9 images. The 9 images are school portraits of George Andrew Buchanan and Robert Buchanan over several years.
Date:
1930/1957
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Moutray Oil Company Truck
Copy negative of a Moutray Oil Company truck parked on the street in front of a Moutray Oil Company storefront. The Moutray logo is printed on the passenger side door of the truck along with the words "P.R. Gerlack, Distributor" and "Bradshaw, Texas." A patterned border surrounds the photograph.
Date:
1930~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two Girls in Front of Building A; Five Men in Front of Building B
Copy negative of two pictures taken at Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. The first picture is of two girls in front of the Marston Gym taken in 1930. There are two men walking in the background, and there is a scoreboard on the right of the building and cars parked in front of it. The second picture is of five men in suits standing in the grass by a sidewalk in front of Hunter Hall, taken in 1949. There are two more men in the background.
Date:
{1930,1949}
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Man by House; Man by Watering Trough
Copy negative of two pictures. The first is of Daniel Ray (D. R.) DeRusha wearing a suit, standing in front of a house with windows and bushes at 301 Miller St. in Abilene in 1938. The second picture is of George Nathan Cook standing in a field beside a watering trough with a car in the background in New Mexico in 1945.
Date:
{1938,1945}
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Summer Twirling Camp Students
Copy negative of a group of ten students at a summer twirling camp under instructor Bob Sanders in the late 1930's.
Date:
1930~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Man and Women in Yard
Copy negative of entertainer Will Rogers and three women standing in an area in front of a fence, trees, and windmill. Two of the women are in riding gear, and Rogers is wearing suspenders and a hat.
Date:
1930~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Women by House
Copy negative of music teacher Mrs. Myrtle Schultz and seven mothers of her students. Lela Hefner Cummings is second from left.
Date:
1930~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Family Reunion
Copy negative of five members from five generations of a family at the Hefner family reunion and Warren Hefner's birthday. From left to right they are Warren Hefner, Katie Syrena Hefner Hughes, Will Hughes, and Edna Hughes Wood and daughter.
Date:
1930~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
"Fannin's Fight," March 19, 1836.
Map of Fannin's Fight, showing the Texas Infantry, breastworks, and lines of assault by Mexican Dragoons and Infantry. Lines of march used by Colonel Fannin and General Urrea are also shown. Note: "[shows] rise of six feet, behind which Mexican Artillery fired, on the 20th." There are also notes on the type of cannons used. Distances to various cities are given. No scale indicated. On verso: Photograph of boats docked at harbor in the town of Dover, England.
Date:
1938?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the dominion of Canada, exclusive of northern regions indicating vegetation and forest cover.
Map of Canada from coast to coast, indicating the type of forest cover with color legend. The names of the types of vegetation typically found in different regions are also included as notes on the map. Scale [ca. 1:6,336,000] (100 miles to the inch).
Date:
1930
Creator:
National Development Bureau
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sketch of Rath City or Old Reynolds
Sketch map of the trading post called Rath City, or Camp Reynolds, showing gun magazines, hotels, graves, corrals, and a few unidentified buildings as well as ownership of land. Notes on source information is included beneath the legend, in the upper-right corner. Scale [ca. 1:1,500] (125 feet to the inch).
Date:
1936
Creator:
Riney, W. A.; Rath, Charles & Moore, W. P.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combat near the "Mission Concepcion," by Colonel James Bowie's Battalion, October 28, 1835.
Map of combat at the Battle of Concepción during the Texas Revolution, showing lines of assault by Mexican infantry, cannon, and dragoons, and lines held by Captain Fannin's and Captain Coleman's companies. The battlefield is surrounded by wooded terrain and lies next to the San Antonio River. No scale indicated. On verso: Photograph of a family making a sandcastle on a beach on the South Coast of England.
Date:
1938?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Comanche Country, 1875
Military map of the Indian Territory in the Great Plains, showing Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Kansas. The map includes military trails and posts (abandoned and occupied). State lines, towns, railroads, bodies of water, and areas of elevation are also included. Towns enclosed in brackets were established after 1875. Relief shown in hachures.
Date:
1933
Creator:
Riney, W. A.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New Hampshire
Map of New Hampshire and the surrounding area at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing counties, towns, roads, water bodies, boundary lines, forts, and includes explanatory notes on certain geographic features. There is also an inset map in the upper-right corner titled "A General Map of the River St. Lawrence above Montreal to Lake Ontario with the Adjacent Country on the West from Albany & Lake Champlain," with major cities, lakes, rivers, and falls labeled. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:950,400] (approximately 15 miles to the inch).
Date:
1937
Creator:
Blanchard, Joseph; Langdon, Samuel & Jefferys, Thomas
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas: San Marcos Quadrangle
Topographic quadrangle map of San Marcos, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing Guadalupe, Gonzales, Hays, and Caldwell Counties. The map includes county lines, towns, roads, railroads, rivers, creeks, and schools. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:125,000
Date:
1931
Creator:
Marshall, R. B.; Herron, W. H.; Stiles, Arthur; McLaughlin, Fred; Forster, William J.; Elliott, Herman R. et al.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General Highway Map Collin County, Texas
Highway map of Collin County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools and churches), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, oil or gas wells, and state roadside parks. Map includes twelve inset maps - Weston, Melissa, Valdasta, Allen, Altoga, Climax, Culeoka, Copeville, Lavon, Inset No. 1, Renner, and Josephine - and an extensive legend indicating geographical and human-made features. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).
Date:
1939
Creator:
Texas. Highway Department.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North Carolina (western part, i.e., Tennessee)
Map of Tennessee and the surrounding area at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing towns, roads, American-Indian reservations, rivers, creeks, and mountain ranges, with explanatory notes on road conditions. Map includes a legend in the lower-left corner and an inset map, titled "A Map of the United States of America," at the top of the map, below the title. The inset map designates Tennessee (marked as North Carolina) within the larger scope of the United States at the time. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:1,393,920] (22 miles to the inch).
Date:
1938
Creator:
Smith, D.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas
Political map of the 254 counties of Texas, showing the boundary lines and identifying each county. The map also includes the counties/parishes of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico that are adjacent to Texas counties. Scale [ca. 1:1,710,720] (27 miles to the inch).
Date:
[..1931]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of the Battlefield of San Jacinto
Map of the Texan and Mexican Armies at the commencement of the Battle of San Jacinto, showing the positions of the armies and features of the terrain between Buffalo Bayou and San Jacinto Bay. Distances to various cities are given. No scale indicated. On verso: Photograph of families picking hops to make beer in Kent County, England.
Date:
1938?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map of Texas, with Coahuila, in 1835-36.
Map of the United States and Mexico, showing territories but not states. Cities and towns representing areas of recruitment are shown, as are Indian villages and forts in Texas. No scale indicated.
Date:
1938?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Delaware, at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, from a 1787 original in the Library of Congress at Washington.
Map of the Delmarva Peninsula and the surrounding area at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing and identifying towns, counties, rivers, creeks, inlets, bays, lighthouses, sand bars, and capes. Scale [ca. 1:622,600] (10 miles to the inch).
Date:
1937
Creator:
Churchman, John
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Maryland
Topographic map of Maryland and the surrounding area, showing counties, towns, villages, roads, and bodies of water. There is an inset map included in the lower-left corner titled "New Map of the Province of Maryland in North America." The inset is a facsimile of a Maryland map published in February 1780. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:633,600] (10 miles to the inch).
Date:
1938
Creator:
Griffith, Dennis
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pennsylvania
Map of Pennsylvania at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing towns, villages, roads, paths, counties, boundary lines, mountain ranges, and water bodies. The map also includes a legend (indicating meeting houses, wigwams, mills, forges, boundaries, towns, roads, villages, and paths) in the lower-right corner. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:950,400] (15 miles to the inch).
Date:
1937
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
New-York
Map of New York at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing counties, towns, roads, bodies or water, and other geographic features. These is an inset map of a reduced reprint of a French edition of the Lewis Evans map in the lower-left corner. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,393,920] (22 miles to the inch).
Date:
1938
Creator:
Faden, William; Sauthier, Claude Joseph; Ratzer, B. & Evans, Lewis
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History