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Letter to Mary Jones, 13 July 1879 (open access)

Letter to Mary Jones, 13 July 1879

Letter from Cromwell Anson Jones, son of the last president of the Republic of Texas. The original letter is housed in the University of North Texas Archives.
Date: July 13, 1879
Creator: Jones, C. Anson
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Mary Jones, 21 July 1879 (open access)

Letter to Mary Jones, 21 July 1879

Letter from Cromwell Anson Jones, son of the last president of the Republic of Texas. The original letter is housed in the University of North Texas Archives.
Date: July 21, 1879
Creator: Jones, C. Anson
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Mary Jones, 10 February 1870 (open access)

Letter to Mary Jones, 10 February 1870

Letter from Josephine Whiteside to the widow of the last president of the Republic of Texas. The original letter is housed in the University of North Texas Archives.
Date: February 10, 1870
Creator: Whiteside, Josephine
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Cromwell Jones, 25 February 1870 (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Jones, 25 February 1870

Letter from Mary Jones, widow of the last president of the Republic of Texas. The original letter is housed in the University of North Texas Archives.
Date: February 25, 1870
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Mary Jones, 8 November 1871 (open access)

Letter to Mary Jones, 8 November 1871

Letter from Cromwell Anson Jones, son of the last president of the Republic of Texas. The original letter is housed in the University of North Texas Archives.
Date: November 8, 1871
Creator: Jones, C. Anson
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Mary Jones, 10 August 1879 (open access)

Letter to Mary Jones, 10 August 1879

Letter from Cromwell Anson Jones, son of the last president of the Republic of Texas. The original letter is housed in the University of North Texas Archives.
Date: August 10, 1879
Creator: Jones, C. Anson
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Northern Texas]

A color coded map of Texas from 1873; the map is color coded by county.
Date: 1873
Creator: Gray, Ormando Willis
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway.

Includes train schedule and advertisements.
Date: 1877~
Creator: Rand McNally and Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Legal Directory For 1876-77 (open access)

Texas Legal Directory For 1876-77

This Texas directory contains lists of: officers of the U.S. Government, officers of the Texas Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Departments, county officers, state lawyers, Texas counties, banks, post offices, and revised rules of the Supreme Court.
Date: 1877
Creator: Bentley, Henry Lewis
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gray's atlas map of Texas.

1 map : hand col. ; 32 x 36 cm.
Date: 1874
Creator: Gray, Ormando Willis
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Asher & Adams' Texas.

Does not show western Texas beyond 7 miles west of San Antonio. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "55-56."
Date: 1871
Creator: Asher
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Texas, Indian Territory, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas] / bearbeitet v. H. Habenicht.

Excludes Texas south of the 29th parallel. "Petermann: Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-Amerika in 6 Blättern, Bl. 5." "Stieler's Hand Atlas, no. 85." Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich.
Date: 1872
Creator: Petermann, A.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biography of José Antonio Navarro, written by an Old Texan. (open access)

Biography of José Antonio Navarro, written by an Old Texan.

Biography of Texas statesman José Antonio Navarro.
Date: 1876
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the State of Texas showing the line and lands of the Texas and Pacific Railway.

Map of the State of Texas showing the line and lands of the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1873. Inset map shows the railroad and its connections across the United States. Also on map are "Table of distances" and "Population of Texas in Counties, Census of 1879".
Date: 1873
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Land grant] : Austin, [Tex.], 1873 August 27. (open access)

[Land grant] : Austin, [Tex.], 1873 August 27.

Original Land Grant for 272 1/3 acres in Harrison county. Grant for two hundred seventy two and one-third acres of land in Harrison county to J. P. McDaniel. Signed by Edmund Jackson Davis and Jacob Kuechler.
Date: August 27, 1873
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Land grant] : Austin, [Tex.], 1876 July 18.

Land Grant for 320 acres in Montague County.
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Texas and Indian Territory]

Hand drawn color map showing Texas counties, cities, towns, roads, railroads, rivers, creeks, quarries, mills and topographical features in 1879. Towns and geographical features of the Indian Territory also included.
Date: 1879
Creator: N. D. Thompson Publishing Co.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Richardson's new map of the state of Texas, prepared for the Texas almanac, 1873]

Hand drawn color-shaded map showing counties, cities, rivers, creeks, railroads, roads, and topographical features of Texas as of 1872. Insets of Plan of Matagorda Bay, Plan of Galveston Bay, Plan of the northern part or panhandle of Texas, Plan of the great west, and Plan of Sabine Lake.
Date: 1872
Creator: G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cram's railroad & township map of Texas.

Hand drawn color map showing railroads, counties, cities and towns of Texas in 1879.
Date: 1879
Creator: Cram, George Franklin, 1841-1928
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Denton County, Texas

Map of Denton County, Texas and the surrounding area. Individual properties are marked and labeled with land owners. There are various handwritten notes and additional property lines drawn on the map. Scale ca. 1:133,333
Date: 1879
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brazil: Provincial Railroads

Map showing provincial railroads in Brazil as of 1876, indicating (with red ink) those already built, in the process of being built, and projected to be built. Includes 2 tables listing location, length, distance from Rio de Janeiro and other statistics of the railroads.
Date: 1876
Creator: Imperial Instituto Artístico (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Bill of Sale for Cattle, February 1873] (open access)

[Bill of Sale for Cattle, February 1873]

Bill of sale of cattle from Mark L. Kennard to A.D. Kennard.
Date: February 6, 1873
Creator: Kennard, Mark L. & Kennard, A. D.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from John Dowell, April 20, 1876] (open access)

[Letter from John Dowell, April 20, 1876]

Letter from John Dowell notifying the recipient of the new legislation on pensions for the soldiers or volunteers of the war between Texas and Mexico. Dowell is offering his services if the recipient believes that he qualifies for the pension.
Date: 1876-04-20~
Creator: Dowell, John
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library