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Wichita Falls, Texas, 1890

Map shows late nineteenth century Wichita Falls, Texas structures, street names, and businesses. Includes key to selected buildings and eight illustrations. Insets: "Wichita Co. Court House and Jail," "C.A. Souters Block & Opera House," "T.H. Wilson's Grocery Co.," "Wichita Roller Mil' Co. Mill & Warehouse," "Public School," "Keller & Durrett, Saddlery: Buggies & Hard[ware]," "Wagon & R.R. Bridges Across the Wichita River," and the "Panhandle Natl. Bank." Scale not provided.
Date: 1890
Creator: Fowler, T. M. (Thaddeus Mortimer), 1842-1922
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway and connections.

Map shows railroad lines across south central Texas and along the Texas Gulf Coast, including major cities of Waco, Houston, Austin, Galveston, San Antonio, and Laredo. Scale not given.
Date: 1890
Creator: Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Maps of Dallas and Buffalo]

Map shows late nineteenth century Dallas, Texas street names, parks, railroads, street car lines, cemeteries, and some buildings. Scale not given.
Date: [1890..1900]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Maps of Dallas and San Francisco]

Map shows street names, parks, railroads, street car lines, cemeteries, and some buildings; on verso, same, plus military installations. Scale not given.
Date: [1890..1900]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

United States, southern section

Map shows cities, railroads, in the southeastern portion of the United States including most of Kansas, Indian Territory, and eastern portion of Texas during the late nineteenth century. Map shows Padre Island, Texas as "Isla del Madre." Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1890..1900]
Creator: Bartholomew, John, 1831-1893
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Plano de Matamoros y Brownsville

Map shows roads, fortifications, street names, interurban lines, and some structures for Matamoros, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas and vicinity along the Rio Grande. Scale not given.
Date: 1890
Creator: Clarke & Courts.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Western half of Texas.

Map shows late nineteenth century Texas counties, railroads, major cities and towns. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,802,000].
Date: [1890..1901]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Eastern half of Texas.

Map shows late nineteenth century Texas counties, railroads, Native American reservations, military reservations, major cities and towns. Relief shown by hachures. Includes index. Scale [ca. 1:1,840,000].
Date: [1890..1901]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas.

Map shows late nineteenth century Texas geography, counties, cities, and railroad lines. Includes index to railroad lines and index to cities. Inset: [Texas Panhandle]. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not indicated.
Date: [1890..1899]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coast chart no. 211 : Padre I. and Laguna Madre Lat. 27 [degrees] 33 ́ to Lat. 26 [degrees] 33 ́, Texas.

Map shows Padre Island and Laguna Madre topography and hydrography. Includes information on tides, soundings, and buoys. Relief shown by hachures and depths shown by soundings. Scale 1:80,000.
Date: 1890
Creator: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bosque County, State of Texas.

Map shows tracts of land with landowners names and patents; towns and portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1890
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portion of Antonio (or Edward) Arriola Grant, quantity indefinite, Nacogdoches Co., Tx

Map shows acreage, lot dimensions, and ownership of land to the northeast of Nacogdoches, Texas. Scale not given.
Date: 1890
Creator: Starr, James Harper, 1809-1890
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bosque County, State of Texas.

Map shows late nineteenth century Bosque County, Texas tracts of land with landowners names and patents; towns and portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale [ca. 1:66,667].
Date: 1890
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Chart of Sabine Pass, Texas : From the survey of December, 1889, made under the direction of Captain W. L. Fisk.

Map shows street layout, railroads, and docks for the town of Sabine Pass; navigational detail for the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to Sabine Lake; quarantine, lighthouse, and other points along the shoreline. Depths shown by soundings and contours. Scale [ca. 1:7,500].
Date: 1890
Creator: Bell, A. C
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Entrance, Sabine Pass, Texas: from survey of December, 1889.

Map shows Includes notes. Insets: "Profiles of Jetty Walls: East Jetty - West Jetty." Depths shown by soundings and contours. Scale [1:7,500].
Date: 1890
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Entrance, Sabine Pass, Texas: from survey of December, 1889.

Map shows Includes notes. Insets: "Profiles of Jetty Walls: East Jetty - West Jetty." Depths shown by soundings and contours. Scale [1:7,500].
Date: 1890
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lamar County, State of Texas.

Map shows late nineteenth century Lamar County, Texas property tracts, landowners, land patents, railroads, and towns. Includes recorded volume and date. Scale [ca. 1:66,667].
Date: 1890
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the central mineral region : chiefly from actual surveys made under the direction of Theo B. Comstock, geologist for central Texas.

Map shows geological composition of surface strata, towns, creeks, crossings, railroads, and names of mountain peaks for Mason, Llano, McCulloch, Gillespie, Blanco, San Saba, Kimble, and Burnet counties, and portions of Hays and Travis counties. Includes notes and key to colors used to represent strata types. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:247,300].
Date: 1890
Creator: Nagle, J. C. (James C.),1865-1927
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

General chart of the coast.

Map shows late nineteenth century Gulf of Mexico coast detail. Includes notes and tables. Depths shown by isolines and soundings. Scale [ca. 1:400,000].
Date: 1890
Creator: United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Making a great seaport: How the United States engineers propose securing thirty feet of water in Galveston Harbor, Texas.

Map shows street and jetty layout for Galveston and Bolivar City; islands and shoreline for Galveston Bay. Scale not given.
Date: 1890
Creator: Johnson, C. Everett
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Rand, McNally & Co.'s Texas.

Map shows geography, cities, railroads, and political borders in late nineteenth century Texas. Inset: "Southern portion of Texas on same scale." Includes index and list of railroads stamped in red and keyed to map. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1890..1910]
Creator: Rand McNally and Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of E. C. Pendry]

Photograph of E.C. Pendry, wearing a dark suit and hat, posing behind a penny-farthing bicycle. He is standing in front of a studio backdrop of the countryside.
Date: 1890~/1899~
Creator: Swartz
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Denner-Record and Capps Building in Ft. Worth, Texas

Photograph of the Denner-Record building and the Capps building on Fifth and Throckmorton Streets in Ft. Worth, Texas. The building is five stories tall and brick with a fire escape. It is surrounded by a sidewalk that is lined with bicycles and horse-drawn buggies. On the left side of the frame is a church tower and on the right is a sign that reads, "SUCCESS".
Date: 1890
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Section Foremen of the T&P Railway

Photograph from 1890 of the section foremen on the Texas and Pacific Railway that ran between Sherman and Fort Worth. Standing L-R: William Ballew who had the Pilot Point section, T. Flynn who had the Collinsville north section, Joe Boston who had the Denton section. Seated L-R: B. Price who had the Tioga section, J. Wiggs who had the Collinsville south section, and John McLamore who had the Aubrey section.
Date: 1890
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History