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Coffee in the Gourd

Description: Collection of miscellaneous folklore of Texas and Mexico, including folk songs, information about Indian pictographs, legends, superstitions, and weather lore. The index begins on page 105.
Date: 1923
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including traveling anecdotes, folk ballads, folklore in natural history, as well as information about black and white magic, Western animals, and cattle brands. The index begins on page 259.
Date: 1953
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

Central America

Description: This map shows northern portions of modern-day Mexico and southern portions of modern-day United States as well as some surrounding areas. Regions labeled Texas, California, and Mexico are outlined in different colors including outlines of the states of Mexico. The area encompassing modern-day California, Arizona, and New Mexico is labeled "Nueva California" and includes annotations regarding the portions which had and had not been explored at the time of the map. Cities, roads, bodies of wa… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mexico, California and Texas.

Description: This map shows the country of Mexico and surrounding portions of the southern United States. Colored outlines mark the individual states of Mexico and the Texas and California territories. Some cities, bodies of water, and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures). Additionally, there is a yellow line noting "newly discovered gold districts." There are three color illustrations around the map showing "Gold Washing" and "Mexican Peasantry" in the lower left corner, and t… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Rapkin, J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

California, Mexico, and Central America.

Description: This map shows Central America and surrounding areas including the southern United States. Colors were used to outline territories in the United States, Mexico and the Mexican states, and individual countries in South America. Some cities, bodies of water and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures). There is a key to the "Classification of Places" on the right side of the map showing the symbolic representations of city populations. There is also a pictorial elevation… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Dower, John, fl. 1838-1846?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Speech: Veteran Benefits for Individuals who Served in Civilian Capacity in the Armed Forces]

Description: Copy of two pages from the Congressional Record containing a speech by Texas Representative Olin Teague regarding pending bills that would grant civilian veterans benefits as well as the history of Avenger Field. The pages include other text, including partial text before the speech discussing a memorial dance for Jess Nevarez, his service in the military, his involvement with his community and church and supplemental statements to Teague's speech after his statements.
Date: April 6, 1977
Creator: United States. Congress.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Spanish North America.

Description: Map shows provinces of New Spain, cities, settlements, and areas of Native American habitation. Appears in Thomson's New general atlas. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:6,300,000].
Date: 1814
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Spanish dominions in North America : northern part

Description: Map shows "intendancies" [of New Spain], cities and towns, mining activity, and military posts; northern portions of "Indendancy of S. Louis de Potosi" as savanna; areas of Native American habitation; and much of southern Louisiana [under French rule]. Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:4,000,000].
Date: 1811
Creator: Hebert, L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mexico, California and Texas

Description: Map shows mid-nineteenth century Mexican states and cities, towns, and geography of Mexico, Texas, and California. Insets: "Gold washing," "Mexican peasantry," and "Ruins at Uxmal, Yucatan." Relief shown by hachures. Map appeared in Tallis' The illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World [1851]. Scale [ca. 1:14,000,000].
Date: 1851
Creator: Rapkin, J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mexico.

Description: Map shows provinces or states in Mexico, cities, deserts, mining activities, and Texas. Includes observational notes directly on map. Inset: "Territory and Isthmus of Tehuantepec." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:8,390,000].
Date: 1855
Creator: J.H. Colton & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The North-west-coast of North America and adjacent territories.

Description: Map shows Russian Possessions, treat boundaries between United States and Spanish Possessions (1819) and British Possessions (1818), physical landmarks, "wagon road to Santa Fe," major settlements and forts. Includes image and note: "Facsimile of a Medal struck at Boston in 1787 on occasion of the departure of the vessels Columbia and Washington for the North West Coast of America...." Inset: The North Pacific Ocean and the adjacent coasts and islands. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1840
Creator: Burr, David H., 1803-1875
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Spanish Dominions in North America.

Description: Map shows early nineteenth century cities, towns, ports, and geography of Spanish territory in North America. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:18,000,000]. Map is detached from A New and Elegant General Atlas by Arrowsmith and Lewis [1805].
Date: 1805
Creator: Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Mexican Boundary from Texas to California.

Description: Map shows major cities, military outposts, boundary lines for Old California, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. Includes dates in notes on boundary lines. Relief shown by shading. Scale [ca. 1:14,500,000].
Date: [1850..1870]
Creator: L.L. Poates Engr'g Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 47, July 1943 - April, 1944

Description: The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 447.
Date: 1944
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Map of Oregon and Upper California from the surveys of John Charles Frémont and other authorities.

Description: Map shows major physical features, areas of Native American habitation, major cities, and towns. Northern portion of map is labeled "Oregon Territory" and "Missouri Territory." Southern portion is "Upper California and New Mexico" with the "February 1848 Treaty Boundary Line between Mexico and the United States." Notes and "explanations" are included. Inset: "Profile of the Traveling Route from the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains to the Bay of San Francisco." Relief shown by hachures and spot… more
Date: 1848
Creator: Preuss, Charles, 1803-1854
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the Californias.

Description: Map shows provincial boundary lines, rivers, trails, and areas of Native American habitation in Upper and Lower California. Includes manuscript notes on boundaries proposed in 1849. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,380,000].
Date: 1845
Creator: Farnham, Thomas Jefferson, 1804-1848
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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