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[Map of the United States]

Description: Map shows "proposed" Nebraska and Minnesota territories, Texas inclusive of Santa Fe and extending north to the 42nd degree line of latitude, a narrow New Mexico, California extending east to border of New Mexico and north tip of Texas, Oregon, "N.W. Tery."; major cities in western territories; treaty boundary lines. Includes "explanation" of territory gained and text in left and right panels with tables of statistical data on land area for states and territories. Relief shown by hachures. Scal… more
Date: [1848..1854]
Creator: Gilman, E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[China Cup]

Description: Photograph of a china cup that belonged to Anthony Garnett Smith, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth M. Smith in the 1840's. The cup was part of their wedding china. The cup was later given to their daughter, Adalade "Addie" Smith Howell of Hill County and McLennan County.
Date: 1848
Creator: Willis, T. Bradford
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Land survey for Michael Reed]

Description: Land survey for M. [Michael] Reed of 369 acres of land issued to him in Robertson County on February 5, 1838; land surveyed July 3, 1848 and certified by F.A. Thomson. On verso is statement by James Howlet certifying the legality of the survey, dated July 25, 1848.
Date: July 3, 1848
Creator: Thomson, F.A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Southwestern University

[Receipt of payment]

Description: Receipt of payment from Michael Reed to Jacob Gross, assessor and collector for Milam County, in the amount of twenty dollars and seventy five cents for state and county tax for the year 1847.
Date: 1848
Creator: Gross, Jacob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Southwestern University

[Jasper County, Texas Tax Roll: 1848]

Description: Tax rolls for Jasper County, Texas documenting real and personal properties taxed during the year 1848. Information includes land plot(s) and owner's name, the acreage and assessed value for each property, additional assets, taxes assessed by the state and county, and other relevant details.
Date: 1848
Creator: Jasper County (Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Texas Land Grant]

Description: Land grant for Ira Ellis signed by the governor of the state of Texas. There is a handwritten note from the clerk of Smith County regarding the grant and where it is recorded in the clerk's office about a year after the grant was issued.
Date: June 9, 1848
Creator: United States. Texas.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Transcript of Letter to George L. Hammeken, June 9, 1848]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter to George L. Hammeken, in which the sender describes the provenance of the seven-hundred dollars that were originally enclosed in the letter, and provides a list of items that Mrs. Perry wants Hammeken to purchase and/or have made, including a wax impression of Gen. Austin's seal which Mrs. Perry wants to have engraved on the items she has requested. Lastly, there are further directions for any remaining sum.
Date: June 9, 1848
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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