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Anson Jones. Obituary. 1858

Description: Obituary of Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, including a lengthy biography.
Date: January 1, 1858
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

"Mode of Catching Wild Horses on the Prairies, Texas"

Description: Picture taken from "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion" which shows men on horseback catching wild horses. This document also includes the text description about the engraving.
Date: June 26, 1852
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Medical Advice]

Description: Excerpt with medical advice on treatment of sun-stroke, recovery of the drowned, of persons struck by lightning and remedy for pulmonary consumption (incomplete). On the first page is a list of countries with corresponding numbers.
Date: unknown
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Allerlei]

Description: Clipping containing small items of news including the following: 100 women from France are going to Mexico for silk growing, a French merchant locked up a thief with a vicious dog who killed him, and Ben Thompson has no shortage of refreshments and melons but welcomes visitors in jail. Reverse is a fragment of a clipping regarding trains.
Date: unknown
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Clipping: Energetic Prairie Doctor Legend in S.A.]

Description: Photocopy of a damaged newspaper clipping about doctors Ferdinand and Adolph Herff, describing anecdotes from their life and medical practices.
Date: unknown
Creator: Elliott, Keith
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

Ghost Towns of Texas

Description: Newspaper clippings regarding biography of R.E.B. Baylor, history of Baylor University, and memorial to R.E.B. Baylor, ca. 1900-1920
Date: unknown
Creator: Etheridge, W. B.
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Document regarding the founding of Castroville]

Description: Document regarding the founding of Castroville on the banks of the Medina in the province of San Antonio de Bexar. Gives potential emigrants information about price of passage, cost of farm animals in Texas, and lists items emigrating families should bring with them, including kitchen utensils, farming implements, seeds and other items.
Date: 1845
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Clipping with article by Hr. Castro, February 24, 1846]

Description: Parts of a newspaper, possibly published in Mannheim by Fr. Moritz H‚hner. Announcements dated between February 25 and March 2, 1846. Article by Hr. Castro signed on February 24, 1846 in Antwerp.
Date: 1846
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Nachricht für Auswanderer

Description: Newspaper clipping regarding the settlement in Texas. First portion (front side) is signed by W. D'Hanis & Co. and dated March 1846 from Antwerp. Second portion (front side) mentions Haby's return to Europe to take his family back to Texas and is signed Huth & Co. and dated March 25, 1846 from Neufreystaedt. Second clipping (reverse side) has two sections: First section is part of a letter commending the character of a vicar. The second section relates the story of four lumberjacks who found a… more
Date: March 1846
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Clipping from Courrier D'Alsace, Cinquiéme année, No. 118]

Description: Clipping from a newsletter dated October 1, 1846 that includes a letter from Huth & Co stating that Texas has good soil, the climate is healthy and all are thriving and states that Pfanner must have been motivated by something other than truth to say such bad things about Texas in his previously published letter. The writer goes on to explain the process of distributing land and refrains from explaining why Pfanner's last letter was written from Mexico and not Texas. Sign by Huth & Co. on Septe… more
Date: October 1, 1846
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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