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Sunbonnet

Description: Sunbonnet of tan and blue braided straw. The hat has a wired brim and a grayish-white silk lining. It is trimmed in tan silk ribbon, and the bavolet, or back panel which shades the neck, is composed of brown, brick red, tan and blue striped cotton fabric. The ties are of brown silk taffeta and are attached to lower edge of brim with a herringbone stitch. The TFC thanks Rebecca Jumper Matheson for her research on this object.
Date: 1830/1839
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Map of North America : engraved to illustrate Mitchell's school and family geography.

Description: Map shows major cities and physical features for the United States; boundary line for a separate Texas which encompasses Santa Fe; pre-Gadsden Treaty border between U.S. and Mexico following the Gila River; Russian America [Alaska], British America, Mexico, Guatemala, the West Indies, and Greenland, and areas of Native American habitation. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:35,000,000].
Date: 1839
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the railroads and canals, finished, unfinished, and in contemplation, in the United States.

Description: Map shows existing and proposed railroads and canals, major cities, and state boundaries for the portion of the United States east of the Mississippi River; District of Huron [Wisconsin], Michigan Territory, and Arkansas Territory. Includes explanation, illustration, and thirteen profiles for railroad routes and canals. Insets: "Erie Canal at the Little Falls [illustration]," "Profile of the Ohio Canal," "Profile of the Pennsylvania Canal," "Profile of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal," "Profile of … more
Date: [1819..1839]
Creator: Norris, William
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Newspaper Fragment]

Description: A newspaper clipping that details the yearly rainfall amounts from 1839 to 1861. This fragment is torn and the missing pieces makes the rainfall table unintelligible.
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Connecticut.

Description: Map shows mid-nineteenth century Connecticut counties, railroads, roads, canals, cities and towns. Includes explanation, distances between points, and "Statistical Table" of population by county, county town, and by state intermittently from 1701 in 1840. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:548,000].
Date: 1839
Creator: Tanner, Henry Schenck, 1786-1858
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Wisconsin Territory : exhibiting the sections, ranges, townships, counties, prairies, swamps, &c.

Description: Map shows the township grid, counties, prairies, marshes, roads, cities, towns, and notable physical features in the southern and eastern portions of early nineteenth century Wisconsin as well as south of the Wisconsin, Wolf, and Fox Rivers and along the Green Bay. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:380,160].
Date: 1839
Creator: Suydam, John V.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Karte von America.

Description: Map shows major cities, political divisions, and areas of North and South America claimed by European counties. Includes a color key to territorial possessions in bottom margin and a roman numeral key to the free American states, and notes. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1839
Creator: Fried, F. (Franz), fl. 1811-1868
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Beaufort Harbour, North Carolina.

Description: Map shows coastline detail and profile of sea bottom; roads, inlets, sand bars, and inland structures. Includes scale chart, text notes, and small illustration with title. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings and isolines. Scale [ca. 1:9,600].
Date: 1839
Creator: Glynn, James (1801-1871)
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Texas

Description: Map of the Republic of Texas including 30 counties that are outlined in color and numbered to match an index in the upper-right corner of the map. There is an inset in the lower-left corner showing the "Plan der Galveston Bay." Scale [ca. 1:4,118,400] ("Englische Meilen 69=1° des Aequator.") Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
Date: 1839?
Creator: Flemming, C. (Carl), 1806-1878
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

New York with the latest improvements.

Description: Map shows early nineteenth century New York counties, cities, towns, railroads, canals, roads, and swampland. Includes legend and table of distances. Scale [ca. 1:2,620,000].
Date: unknown
Creator: Yeager, Joseph, ca. 1792-1859
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Texas.

Description: Map shows early nineteenth century Texas colonies, towns, forts, roads, areas of Native American habitation, missions, and battle sites. Includes notes. Inset: "Map of the Rio Grande and the country west to the Pacific." Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale [ca. 1:1,267,200].
Date: 1839
Creator: Hunt, Richard S.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston, Volume 1: 1839-1845

Description: This book is the first in a series of four volumes and contains collected correspondence to and from Sam Houston. According to information on the inside front cover, it includes letters "between Sam Houston and his wife, and their letters to other family members, family physicians, and close personal friends." The letters include footnotes that give clarification and context. The volume also has a bibliography, appendix, and index (which starts on page 377).
Date: 1996
Creator: Roberts, Madge Thornall
Partner: UNT Press
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