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Mission Mfg., ''Miss Mission'' series in color

Title: Mission Mfg., ''Miss Mission'' series in color ..Alternative Title: [Mission Manufacturing Co., ''Miss Mission'' series in color]..Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie ..Date: August 1944..Place: Housto... More

Blacksmith shop at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history sit...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Alamo. San Antonio Texas Stereoscope Card.

Texas stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assemb... More

Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s h...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Part of a porch on of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

El Nuevo Mexico y Tierras Adyacentes Mapa Levantado para la demarcacio...

Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Spanish manuscript map of Spanish Texas, Louisiana Territory and the Trans-Mississippi West, prepared for the use by the Spanish Crown in defending its claims to Spanis... More

Map of the United States - Public domain vintage map

Also available in digital form.

James K. Polk Papers: Series 6: Notes, circa 1831-1847; Subject file; ...

Letter from David Lee Child, London, [England], to George Thompson, 18...

David Lee Child writes to George Thompson thanking him for his proposal to be his guide while he is visiting England but he has to decline it. He hopes to visit him at some point but he won't be able to attend ... More

Houston, Santa Anna, and Cos - A cartoon of a group of men with skis

An imaginative portrayal (with overt propaganda value) of an event in the Texas war of independence --the surrender of Mexican commander Santa Anna and his brother-in-law General Martin Perfecto de Cos, to Amer... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Brooklyn, [Conn.], to Henry Clarke...

Letter from John Scoble, London, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison,...

John Scoble writes to William Lloyd Garrison saying that while he feels "cheered by the extension of Anti-Slavery principles in the United States," he feels "depressed at the state of the Anti-Slavery cause her... More

Letter from Henry Brewster Stanton, New York, to Maria Weston Chapman,...

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Elizabeth Peas...

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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to George William...

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Elizabeth Peas...

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Letter from Deborah Weston, New Bedford, [Mass.], to Caroline Weston, ...

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Copy of letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to John F...

Letter from Anne Knight, Paris, [France], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1...

Anne Knight writes to William Lloyd Garrison thanking him for his last letter and sharing her "prediction that your march to emancipation will not be a very lengthy one." She comments that the British planters ... More

Letter from Anne Knight, Paris, [France], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1...

Anne Knight writes to William Lloyd Garrison thanking him for his last letter and sharing her "prediction that your march to emancipation will not be a very lengthy one." She comments that the British planters ... More

Letter from Anne Knight, Paris, [France], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1...

Anne Knight writes to William Lloyd Garrison thanking him for his last letter and sharing her "prediction that your march to emancipation will not be a very lengthy one." She comments that the British planters ... More

Letter from Anne Knight, Paris, [France], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1...

Anne Knight writes to William Lloyd Garrison thanking him for his last letter and sharing her "prediction that your march to emancipation will not be a very lengthy one." She comments that the British planters ... More

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Henry Clarke W...

Texas coming in. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A pro-Democrat cartoon forecasting the collapse of Whig opposition to the annexation of Texas. James K. Polk, the expansionist candidate, stands at right near a bridge spanning "Salt River." He holds an America... More

Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [Boston?, Mass.], to William Lloyd G...

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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [Boston?, Mass.], to William Lloyd G...

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Texas: Church of Alamo, San Antonio de Bexar

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1844. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Letter from John Greenleaf Whittier, Lowell, [Massachusetts], to Willi...

John Greenleaf Whittier writes to William Lloyd Garrison about a "sweeping charge against Liberty party journals of having for their object to aid [President James K.] Polk & Texas & c." Whittier explains his b... More

Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [Boston?, Mass.], to William Lloyd G...

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Letter from Lydia Maria Child, New York, to Henrietta Sargent, March 1...

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Letter from John Greenleaf Whittier, Lowell, [Massachusetts], to Willi...

John Greenleaf Whittier writes to William Lloyd Garrison about a "sweeping charge against Liberty party journals of having for their object to aid [President James K.] Polk & Texas & c." Whittier explains his b... More

Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, [Boston?, Mass.], to William Lloyd G...

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Letter from Lydia Maria Child, New York, to Henrietta Sargent, March 1...

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Political cock fighters. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A figurative portrayal of the 1844 presidential contest as a cock-fight, in which Whig candidate Henry Clay prevails. Clay and Democratic opponent Polk battle in a pit or ring as several prominent political fi... More

Letter from Caroline Weston to Maria Weston Chapman and Emma Forbes We...

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Letter from Caroline Weston to Emma Forbes Weston, [Oct. 1845]

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Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [NY], to Maria Weston Chapman...

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Review of Texas troops - A drawing of a large group of people on horse...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1845 Jan. 4. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Letter from Edward Morris Davis, Philad[elphia], [Penn.], to Maria Wes...

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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Richard Davis ...

Letter from Anne Knight, to William Lloyd Garrison, [October] 14 [18]4...

Anne Knight offers William Lloyd Garrison her prayers for his continued good health in his work. Knight laments the burdens of the annexation of Texas and the election of a "pro-slavery president", labelling it... More

Letter from Giles Badger Stebbins, Egypt, N[ew] Y[ork], to William Llo...

In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Giles B. Stebbins requests Garrison send him 200 copies of "Adin Ballou's reply to Gerrit Smith's Constitutional argument". Stebbins states that he saw in the Liberator... More

Letter from Mary Anne Estlin, Park Street, [Bristol, England], to Mari...

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Letter from Anne Cropper, [England], to Maria Weston Chapman, [1846?]

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Draft of a petition from William Lloyd Garrison, [Boston], [Mass.], to...

Draft copy by Francis Jackson and William Lloyd Garrison of petition requesting Massachusetts General Court to secede from the Union in the event of the admission of "the foreign nation of Texas" as a slave sta... More

James K. Polk Papers: Series 8: Miscellaneous, 1827-1884; Chronologica...

James K. Polk Papers: Series 2, General Correspondence and Related Ite...

map from "Historical Collections of the Great West; containing narrati...

This image has been taken from scan 000094 from "Historical Collections of the Great West; containing narrations of the most important ... events in Western History, remarkable individual adventures, sketches o... More

map from "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its an...

This image has been taken from scan 000087 from volume 02 of "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 ... With an extended appendix [containing Memoir o... More

map from "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its an...

This image has been taken from scan 000035 from volume 02 of "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 ... With an extended appendix [containing Memoir o... More

portrait from "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to i...

This image has been taken from scan 000223 from volume 01 of "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 ... With an extended appendix [containing Memoir o... More

map from "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its an...

This image has been taken from scan 000155 from volume 02 of "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 ... With an extended appendix [containing Memoir o... More

map from "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its an...

This image has been taken from scan 000499 from volume 01 of "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 ... With an extended appendix [containing Memoir o... More

map from "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its an...

This image has been taken from scan 000597 from volume 02 of "History of Texas from its first settlement in 1685 to its annexation to the United States in 1846 ... With an extended appendix [containing Memoir o... More

Johnson family home, Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, 2016.

Exact date unknown. Johnson family in front of the Johnson family home, which was also to become the birthplace of Lyndon B. Johnson. Sam Ealy Johnson, Sr., the only grandfather Lyndon B. Johnson ever knew, sta... More

Panorama of the seat of war : bird's eye view of Texas and part of Mex...

Shows the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico from "Littel [i.e., Little] Constance Bay," Louisiana to the Rio Grande. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by John Bachmann ... Southern District o... More

The Dis-United States. Or the Southern Confederacy

The Confederate leaders are portrayed as a band of competing opportunists led by South Carolina governor and secessionist Francis Pickens (far left). The artist criticizes the January 1861 secession of five sta... More

Unidentified young boy in military uniform with "WR" on hat, possibly ...

Case: Berg, no. 5-10Ga. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, December 2015. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Ci... More

The fox without a tail. - An old political cartoon of a fox without a ...

A satire on South Carolina's role as instigator of secessionism in the South. The artist may be lampooning the convention of seceded states which assembled at Montgomery, Alabama, on February 4, 1861. The promi... More

Unidentified young drummer boy in military uniform playing drum

Case: Berg, no. 1-93. Notation in case: "Younger brother of M. Va. Phillips." Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, December 20... More

[Map of the southern states, including rail roads, county towns, state...

Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 14.55 From Harper's weekly, v. 5, Nov. 9, 1861. Following p. 706. Inset: Charleston and Beaufort, South Carolina. 12 x 12 cm. Includes portraits of Lincoln, ... More

Kane, Warren & Gay / H. B. Hillyer's Artillery Rooms, Austin, Texas.

Photograph shows three men, two in civilian dress and one in military uniform. Notation on verso: In commemoration of _____.

Map of the southern states, including rail roads, county towns, state ...

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Texas Rangers - A drawing of a group of men standing next to each othe...

Code on mat (source unverified): I-32. Forms part of the Adolph Metzner American Civil War Collection at the Library of Congress. Purchase; E. Burns Apfeld; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:188). Blood shed in this war: Ci... More

First Lieutenant Max Sachs and a Texas ranger on horseback

Forms part of the Adolph Metzner American Civil War Collection at the Library of Congress. Purchase; E. Burns Apfeld; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:188). Blood shed in this war: Civil War illustrations by Captain Adolph ... More

Defences [sic] of Vicksburg, Decr. 1862

Map shows the area surrounding Vicksburg, Miss., including Warrenton, in December of 1862 at the time of the initial and unsuccessful Union assault, and on the eve of Grant's siege of the city. The Vicksburg & ... More

Portrait of two Texas Rangers, standing facing right A. Metzner

Title on mat (source unverified): Texas Rangers, Nov. 10th 1862. "Lt. [Amboy?]" and "Doctr[?] Jackson" under each portrait. "10 II/62" below image. Signed lower right corner. "N.21" top left corner of sheet. C... More

Galveston, Texas, showing the fortifications &c

Covers Galveston area, west to southeast, from Swan Lake to Gulf of Mexico, and north to Bolivar Point. At head of title: Map no. 3. From the Nathaniel Prentice Banks papers in LC Manuscript Division. "Authorit... More

Texas Rangers - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows soldiers on horses. , bottom right. "Terry Rangers" upper right corner. Title on mat (source unverified): Texas Rangers, Nov. 10th 1862. Code on mat (source unverified): III-62. Forms part of the ... More

The war in Texas - The city of Matamoras, Mexico, opposite Brownsville...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 Dec. 5, p. 173.

Vicksburg Missp. and the Rebel batteries 1863.

Shows the western theater of the war, focusing on Vicksburg. The Vicksburg & Jackson, and Vicksburg & Texas railroads are indicated.

Texas Coast showing points of occupation of expedition under Maj. Gen....

Shows towns, rivers, roads, selected shipwrecks, and Civil War "Points of occupation" marked by U.S. flags. Pen-and-ink (black/red/blue) with blue watercolor on verso showing through to recto. Fold-lined, rubbe... More

The war in Texas - Brownsville, now occupied by the Army under Major-G...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 Dec. 5, p. 173.

Attack on Federal fleet at Galveston, January 1, 1863.

From Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with an appendix, containing reports from officers. December, 1863 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1863). opp. p. 314. Indexed: eighteen positions of ships are... More

[Map of the Red River campaign, March 10-May 22. 1864].

Shows the Red River valley in Arkansas and Louisiana, indicates the location of Camp Worth near Logansport, Louisiana, and the battle sites of April 8 and 9, 1864, between Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana... More

Confederates dragging guns up Kenesaw

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed below title: C[entury]. W[eekly]. No 20, p. 271. Formerly Waud no. B-40. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.805) Published in: Battles and leaders, vol. 4, p. 271. ... More

Morgan's Texas Rangers - A drawing of a man with a sword

Title from mat (source unverified). N.5 upper left corner. Code on mat (source unverified): I-33. Forms part of the Adolph Metzner American Civil War Collection at the Library of Congress. Purchase; E. Burns A... More

Japanese Ambassador - Public domain portrait drawing

Drawing shows an unidentified Union soldier wounded from battle with the Texas Rangers. Title from Blood shed in this war by M. Peake. Code on mat (source unverified): I-33. Forms part of the Adolph Metzner Am... More

Point Isabel, Texas / from a sketch by our special artist, C.E.H. Bonw...

Soldiers digging trench in foreground; buildings and steamboats in background. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 Feb. 13, p. 321.

General Ward, of Massachusetts, killed in China, October, 1862 General...

Head-and shoulders portrait of Frederick Townsend Ward, head-and-shoulders portrait of General Burgevine, and funeral of German Union soldiers at Comfort, Texas. Three illustrations in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, ... More

Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garr...

Samuel Joseph May forwards to William Lloyd Garrison an article he intends to publish in the Christian Register, which he requests that Garrison and Richard D. Webb review as he cannot be certain that his "reco... More

H.B. Stowe From the original painting by Chappel in the possession of ...

Engraving shows portrait of author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, December 2015.... More

[Author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe] / Howell, 867 & 869 B'...

Notation on verso: "Mrs. H.B. Stowe." Label on verso: "From E.B. Fay, dealer in photographs, 100 Nassau St." Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Heritage Aucti... More

portrait from "A Texas Scrap-Book. Made up of the history, biography, ...

This image has been taken from scan 000687 from "A Texas Scrap-Book. Made up of the history, biography, and miscellany of Texas and its people. Compiled by D. W. C. Baker. [With plates, including portraits.]". ... More

map from "A Texas Scrap-Book. Made up of the history, biography, and m...

This image has been taken from scan 000108 from "A Texas Scrap-Book. Made up of the history, biography, and miscellany of Texas and its people. Compiled by D. W. C. Baker. [With plates, including portraits.]". ... More

Campaign map of Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, showing all the battle ...

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Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper (1856-1940), Charles Young Buffalo Soldier...

Born to enslaved parents on March 21, 1856, Henry O. Flipper would become the seventh African American to attend the US Military Academy at West Point. Though several entered the school before him, he was the f... More

portrait from "A Pictorial History of Texas, from the earliest visits ...

This image has been taken from scan 000421 from "A Pictorial History of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers to A.D. 1879 ... Third edition, ... revised". The title and subject terms of this ... More

portrait from "A Pictorial History of Texas, from the earliest visits ...

This image has been taken from scan 000431 from "A Pictorial History of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers to A.D. 1879 ... Third edition, ... revised". The title and subject terms of this ... More

Thomas Green from "A Pictorial History of Texas, from the earliest vis...

This image has been taken from scan 000531 from "A Pictorial History of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers to A.D. 1879 ... Third edition, ... revised". The title and subject terms of this ... More

Capitol of Texas in Austin, from the General Government and State Capi...

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Destruction of the Westfield, Confederate States of America

Print shows the Union vessel, Westfield, being destroyed January 1, 1863, after running aground in Galveston Bay; rather than let the ship fall into Confederate hands, the crew was offloaded and a charge set, w... More

Troops at evacuation of Havana /

"The troops are turning into the Prado from a side street, where stands a triumphal arch erected by the Cubans, but which Gen. Brooke, the Military Governor of Cuba, would not permit to be finished, as he allow... More

Presentation Drawing of Beaumont TX Court House and Post Office

This map has Front Elevations Architectural Drawings for Court House and Post Office Building in Beaumont, Texas

Tarrant county courthouse, Fort Worth, Texas

Photogravure copyrighted by C.L. Swartz (The Albertype Co.). Dunlop Society Court Houses. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Temple, Texas, the town which "commanded" the President's train to sto...

Stereograph showing children and adults running down and around railroad tracks, some waving. H59489 Copyright Office.

Reading the news - A black and white photo of a man kneeling next to a...

Photograph shows two cowboys reading some papers next to a "USM" postbox near the LS Ranch in Texas in 1907. H118423 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1908 by Erwin E. Smith. Amon Carter caption: Two LS cowpunc... More

Civil War veterans at United Confederate Veterans reunion Jensen, Aust...

Photograph shows portrait of Confederate veterans probably at Austin, Texas. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: The Veteran's Attic, Kingston, Tennessee, February 2017. Forms part of: Lilje... More

Buckner Orphans Home, Dallas, Texas, Panoramic Photograph

J154315 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Dallas, Tex. Copyright deposit; Johnson & Rogers; April 17, 1911.

[U.S. Army cavalrymen standing with their mounts. El Paso, Tex., Feb. ...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf.