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Texas Legal Directory For 1876-77

Description: 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
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Brazil: Provincial Railroads

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

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

Description: 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.
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Denton County.

Description: Map of Denton County showing the parcels of land within the county labeled with the owners and sizes or lot numbers. Additionally, some bodies of water and railroad tracks appear to be marked.
Date: October 1871
Creator: Pressler, Chas. W.
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Denton County, Texas

Description: Map of Denton County showing the parcels of land within the county labeled with the owners. A note at the top of the map says, "Lands of the Texas & Pacific Railway Co. are colored yellow." Additionally, some bodies of water, roads, railroad tracks, and towns appear to be marked. A small box in the upper-right corner is labeled "Diagram of a Section" and states "1900 Varas square = 640 acres." Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 Varas to 1 inch, 1 Vara = 33 1/3 inches).
Date: 1870/1889~
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway. Land Department.
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[$500 Bond Issued June 28, 1866]

Description: $500 mortgage bond presented to Henry G. Northon and Virgil Whitcomb by Antonio López de Santa Anna using property and palaces in Mexico as security.
Date: June 28, 1866
Creator: Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876
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The American conflict: a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for the Union. Volume 2.

Description: Volume two of a two-volume set details political and military action in the Civil War. Chapter I (pp. 17-25) discusses activity in Texas and New Mexico in 1862. Analytical index begins on p. 765.
Date: 1866
Creator: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
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Johnson's Texas

Description: Hand drawn color map of Texas showing counties, cities, roads, railroads, creeks and rivers circa 1866. Insets showing Plan of Galveston Bay and Vicinity, and Northern Part of Texas.
Date: 1866
Creator: Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett), 1827-1884
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[Johnson's Texas]

Description: Hand drawn color-shaded map showing counties, cities, rivers, creeks, railroads, roads, and topographical features of Texas as of 1866. Insets of Plan of the northern part of Texas, Plan of Galveston Bay.
Date: 1866
Creator: Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett), 1827-1884
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
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The Old Flag. (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1

Description: Lithograph of an original newspaper manuscript first published by Captain William H. May and Union soldiers while imprisoned at Camp Ford, Tyler, Smith County, Texas. The paper was published for the purpose of "enlivening the monotonous, at times almost unbearably eventless life of Camp Ford" (J. P. Robbins, Preface to The Old Flag). Included are camp news articles, fiction, poems, humorous articles, advertisements, and obituaries. The manuscript was originally hand lettered and illustrated on … more
Date: March 15, 1864
Creator: May, William H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
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The Old Flag. (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1

Description: Lithograph of an original newspaper manuscript first published by Captain William H. May and Union soldiers while imprisoned at Camp Ford, Tyler, Smith County, Texas. The paper was published for the purpose of "enlivening the monotonous, at times almost unbearably eventless life of Camp Ford" (J. P. Robbins, Preface to The Old Flag). Included are camp, local, state, and national news articles; poems; advertisements; and a map of "Ford-Borrough." The manuscript was originally hand lettered and i… more
Date: March 1, 1864
Creator: May, William H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
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The Old Flag. (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1

Description: Lithograph of an original newspaper manuscript first published by Captain William H. May and Union soldiers while imprisoned at Camp Ford, Tyler, Smith County, Texas. The paper was published for the purpose of "enlivening the monotonous, at times almost unbearably eventless life of Camp Ford" (J. P. Robbins, Preface to The Old Flag). Included are humorous articles, jokes, poems, and advertisements, along with a list of prisoners. The manuscript was originally hand lettered and illustrated on un… more
Date: February 17, 1864
Creator: May, William H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The American conflict: a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for the Union. Volume 1.

Description: Volume one of a two-volume set gives a historical overview of slavery and the abolition movement in the U.S., records events leading to secession, and details political and military action early in the Civil War. Chapter XII (pp. 147-177) discusses the annexation of Texas to the United States. Analytical index begins on p. 633.
Date: 1864
Creator: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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