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Neal Douglass Photography Collection
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Rescuing Texas History, 2007
98
Rescuing Texas History, 2006
87
Rescuing Texas History, 2009
75
Dewey G. Mears Photograph Archive
70
Rescuing Texas History, 2019
37
Austin History Center General Collection Photographs
32
O. Henry Project
17
Niles-Graham-Pease Papers
9
Chalberg Collection of Prints and Negatives
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[Agreement for E.M. Pease’s purchase of Celia, an enslaved woman]
An agreement for enslaver E.M. Pease’s purchase of Celia, an enslaved woman.
Date:
August 3, 1841
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Bill of sale for purchase of enslaved person by enslaver E.M. Pease]
A bill of sale for the purchase of an enslaved person by enslaver E.M. Pease.
Date:
August 10, 1847
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence to Governor E.M. Pease from Secretary of War Jefferson Davis]
A letter to Governor E.M. Pease from Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, who refers to Brigadier Major General Persifor F. Smith’s letter of July 29, 1854, to Pease. Includes typewritten transcription of the letter.
Date:
August 29, 1854
Creator:
Davis, Jefferson
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Funeral receipt]
A receipt for printing and circulating funeral tickets (possibly for the funeral of Anne Marshall Pease, daughter of E.M. & Lucadia Pease).
Date:
August 1862
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]
The fourth in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease—in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.
Date:
August 14, 1868
Creator:
Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease, August 23, 1870]
The sixth in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease—in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.
Date:
August 23, 1870
Creator:
Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Effie Roach Hofer Autograph Album]
Autograph album belonging to Effie Roach Hofer. It includes page a 10-line verse poem entitled "Poetry," with drawing of fiddle and pointing finger and hand, signed "W.S. Porter/Secretary Jolly Brothers."
Date:
August 2, 1885
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Temporary Texas Capitol Building Fire]
Photograph of the fire that destroyed the building that had temporarily served as the capitol building for the state of Texas while the new capitol building was being constructed. Firefighters can be seen spraying water in to the upper floors while a large number of spectators look on.
Date:
August 30, 1899
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Blackjack Bargainer
Short story about a family feud.
Date:
August 1901
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Haschke Family in their Car]
Photograph of the Haschke Family (Cecilia, Reinhold, and Feodor) in a car parked in front of an unidentified stone building. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Ma Haschke, Pa Haschke, Fedo Haschke - About the first car in Austin, Texas." The photograph is a cyanotype.
Date:
August 8, 1901
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Struggle of the Outliers
A short story about two men fighting over the same woman.
Date:
August 1902
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tobin's Palm
Short story about a boy who gets his palm read.
Date:
August 1903
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Tempered Wind
Short story about a grafter named Buckingham Skinner.
Date:
August 1904
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two Renegades
A man recounts a story from his visit to Panama.
Date:
August 1904
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
An Unfinished Story
Short story in which a young woman prepares for a date.
Date:
August 1905
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Higher Abdication
Short story set in San Antonio.
Date:
August 1906
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Ruler of Men
Short story about two old friends meeting in New York.
Date:
August 1906
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Trimmed Lamp
Short story about two young women living and working in New York.
Date:
August 1906
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Fifth Wheel
Short story set in New York
Date:
August 1907
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The World and the Door
A short story about a New York broker who flees to Central America.
Date:
August 1907
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Poor Rule
Short story set in Texas
Date:
August 1909
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rus in Urbe
Short story about a press-agent in New York.
Date:
August 1909
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snow Man
Short story set in Colorado in the winter. "Editorial note.--Before the recent fatal illness of William Sydney Porter...this American master of short-story writing had begun for Hampton's Magazine the story printed below...When he realized that he could do no more...O. Henry told in detail the remainder of "The Snow Man" to Harris Merton Lyon..."
Date:
August 1910
Creator:
Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type:
Prose fiction
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Children's Day Parade Boulevard, Galveston
Photograph of Children Day Parade at Galveston. The parade is made up of girls with baby carriages. Crowds of adults are on the sidewalks on either side of the parade route. The ocean is visible in the background.
Date:
August 1, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History