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Embroidered sampler

Description: Plain weave sampler with silk embroidery, floral border, floral motifs, and poem. Text: "In Sharon's lovely Rose, Immortal beauties/ shine; Its sweet refreshing fragrance shows;/ Its origin divine./ Pleasure is a Rose, near which there ever grows/ the thorn of evil; It is wisdom's work so carefully/ to cull the Rose, as to avoid the thorn, and let its/ rich perfume exhale to heaven in grateful adoration/ of Him who gave the Rose to blow./ Mary Louise Brown, November 2nd 1829."
Date: November 2, 1829
Creator: Brown, Mary Louisa
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Article on balloons (aerial navigation)

Description: According to the headers and footers, this document is from the "American Magazine," volume I, number 6 which was published in February of an unknown year (a handwritten note on the cover says 1835). The first page (30) is the beginning of an article about how different people might be spending the winter months. The second page (280) includes the end of an article about a riot and burning of a Convent in or near Boston (which may refer to the burning of the Charlestown Convent in August, 18… more
Date: February 1835
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Print of Texas missions

Description: Two pages from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing: Room Companion. This page (104) includes two illustrations entitled, "Mission of Concepcion, Valley of the Bexar" and "Ruins of the Church of El Alamo."
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Print of Texas missions

Description: Two pages from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing: Room Companion. This page (105) includes two illustrations entitled, "Mission of San Juan, Near San Antonio de Bexar" and Mission of San Jose, Near San Antonio de Bexar."
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

The Phenological & Physiological Register

Description: The cover has an illustration of a person's head with each phrenological 'section' diagrammed. Under the picture, there is text with blanks to be filled in that says, "With Chart, Describing the phrenological Developments of M______ as given by _______, Date _______."
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Summons for Isaac Mitchell

Description: Summons for Isaac Mitchell to appear before the District Court judge in Washington County regarding petition of H. Chiairs and Samuel P. Baskins. Handwritten in ink.
Date: February 22, 1840
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Sesquicentennial Glasses]

Description: Commemorative glasses for the Texas Sesquicentennial; (a,b) short (10.2 cm x 8 cm) and inscribed with, "Texas 1836-1986"; (c-f) have pictures of Texas missions (14.2 x 6.8 cm); and (g-k) are clear frosted glasses (16 cm x 7.5 cm)
Date: 1986~
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Matrimony

Description: Pair of framed pictures, hand-colored over print of man and woman; clothing parts of skirt and trousers are cut out and there are pin-head like studs on clothing; back of frame is marked, "Courtship" & "Matrimony"
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
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