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[Tintype Portrait of a Man]

Tintype portrait of a man with a beard wearing a suit and a white bow tie.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Tintype Portrait of a Woman]

Tintype portrait of a woman wearing a dark dress with a white collar.

Date: 1860~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Tintype Portrait of a Man]

Tintype portrait of a man with a long beard and mustache. A handwritten note on the photo mat identifies the man as "John R."

Date: 1860~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Tintype Portrait of a Man]

Tintype portrait of a man with a beard and mustache wearing a suit.

Date: 1860~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Letter from L. D. Bradley to Minnie Bradley - April 10, 1859]

Letter from L. D. Bradley to Minnie Graysen Bradley, dated May 14, 1860, expressing his wishes for her to visit him.

Date: May 14, 1860

Creator: Bradley, L. D.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Pearce Museum at Navarro College

[Transcript of Letter from L. D. Bradley to Minnie Bradley - April 10, 1859]

Transcript of letter from L. D. Bradley to Minnie Graysen Bradley, dated May 14, 1860, expressing his wishes for her to visit him.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Pearce Museum at Navarro College

[Land Transferal from James and Mary Maxwell to Henry Maxwell, 1855]

Document transferring land from James and Mary Maxwell to Henry Maxwell.

Date: 1855

Creator: Maxwell, James W.

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell

Finders Keepers, Volume 2, Number 4, December 2004

The quarterly newsletter of Johnson County Genealogical Society contains information related to the activities of the society and its members as well as genealogical notes and history for the Johnson County, Texas and surrounding areas.

Date: December 2004

Creator: Johnson County Genealogical Society (Tex.)

Item Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter

Partner: Johnson County Genealogical Society

[Photograph of Firemen and Steamer]

Photograph of firemen and a steamer from the Orange Fire Department posing in front of a clapboard building. The steamer and the men's faces have been colored.

Date: [1840..1850]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Letter from Oliver J. Glessner to Miss Lou Moore]

Handwritten letter from Oliver J. Glessner to Miss Lou Moore, inquiring about her well-being and whether she had a safe and pleasant trip to Illinois, as well as a desire to meet her again in Indiana. The two would marry later that year. The lined paper is embossed in the far left top corner with a small crown and shield.

Date: June 8, 1860

Creator: Glessner, Oliver J.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Denton Public Library

Galveston City Directory, 1859-1860

General directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, it contains "a brief history of the island, prior to the foundation of the city. The successive mayoralties and councils of the city to the present time - provisions of the present charter and ordinances now in force. Also, some account of the various public institutions, improvements, commerce, &c., of the city."

Date: 1859

Creator: W. & D. Richardson

Item Type: Book

Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Photograph of Petersburg Courthouse]

Photograph of The Old Tavern Stand, Townsend Inn, Nelson Academy, and Petersburg Courthouse (one building) in Lavaca County, Texas. Petersburg, Texas, the first seat of Lavaca County when the county was organized in August 1846, was located six miles southeast of Hallettsville. Hallettsville was made the county seat in an 1852 election.

Date: [1846..1880]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Friench Simpson Memorial Library