Illustration of house; on front "Market House, Caroline County, Va. (John Baylor, 1758); on back "'New Market' Manor House, Caroline Co. Virginia. Home of the Baylors, who came from Tiverton, Devonshire, England, in 1676"

Front cover of a children's geography book.

Hand-colored lithograph of Sioux chief Esh-Tah-Hum-Leah visible from the waist up; he is wearing feathers in hair and has two braids, a scarf around his neck, and blanket over his right shoulder.

Print of Santa Anna's surrender to General Sam Houston during the Texas Revolution

Lithograph of Tshusick, an Ojibway Woman.

Front cover and spine of the folio, and front cover and title page of a text containing a hand-colored, engraved pocket map of the western half of the United States showing roads, settlements, and rivers with "explanation" in lower left corner.

Hand-colored stone lithograph of a West Lipan Apache warrior sitting astride a horse and carrying a rifle; from Emory's United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Washington, 1857

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln with notation in lower left corner, "From life by F.B. Carpenter, 1864,"

Hand-colored print of the Civil War camp, Camp Ford taken from an 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly, page 132. Camp Ford, located near Tyler, Texas was established in 1863 as a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War. Over the course of two years, the camp held about 6,000 prisoners and was one of the largest Confederate prison camps west of the Mississippi River.

Hand-colored print of the Civil War camp, Camp Ford took from an 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly, page 132. Camp Ford, located near Tyler, Texas was established in 1863 as a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War. Over the course of two years, the camp held about 6,000 prisoners and was one of the largest Confederate prison camps west of the Mississippi River. George Washington Simmons, pictured holding a pail, was the paymaster of the USS Clifton, captured at Sabine Pass on September 8, 1863. The crew was initially incarcerated at Camp Groce near Hempstead, but the prisoners were all moved to Camp Ford in December 1863. Simmons was in the Prisoner exchange that occurred at Red River Landing on February 25, 1865. The lithograph made from his sketch was published in New York on March 4, 1865, only a week after his exchange.

From "Harper's Weekly." This item includes a sketch of Houston, Texas and the text on the reverse of the clipping.

Engraved woodcut of cattle crossing a stream printed in Harper's Weekly, October 19, 1867, page 665.

Lois Jean Cooper-Mayer Collection. Picture of Henrietta Veazey, sister of Catherine (Kate) Veazey; taken about 1877, year she died; from collection of 71 items (parts a-bs): documents, photographs, and books. See 1983-82.1 - .7 for related three dimensional objects. On back of photograph: "Henretta Veazey. Born: 1858 in Gay Hill, Texas. Died: According to family tradition, when 19, same year picture taken, Gay Hill, Texas. Father: Y. Sheppard Veazey. Mother: Amanda Malvina Zimmerman. Older Sister of Catherine (Kate) Veazey (Mrs. Eugene Bibb Wallace). Family tradition says she was engaged to William Wallace (no relation to E. B. Wallace). When she died he married her older sister Zoe."

Front and back covers of a book titled "Game Animals" from the "Bird and Animal Series."

Front and back covers of a book titled "Goody Two-Shoes."

Front and back covers of a book titled "Puss in Boots." from the "Little Folks Series."

Front and back covers of a book titled "Ali Baba or the Forty Thieves." from the "Wonder-Story Series."

Front and back covers of a book titled "The Robin's Christmas Eve." from the "Snowflake Series."

Front and back covers of a book titled "Dame Trot and her Comical Cat." from the "Pleasewell Series."

Front and back covers of a book titled "The Old Woman and Her Pig." from the "Pleasewell Series."

Front and back covers of a book titled "The Story of the Three Little Kittens." from the "Little Kitten Series."

Front page of a book containing an illustrated portrait of Stephen Fuller Austin, labeled "Father of Texas, born at Austinville, Wythe Co., VA., Nov. 3, 1797."

Front cover of a book about Captain Jeff of the Texas Rangers.

First page telling the story of the Colony in Texas; sketch of the colony included.