Texas

The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skys...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 33-story building was developed by Cousins Properties from November 2001 to December 2003. It was the first high- rise building t... more

Plano del Lago de Sn. Bernardo situado en la costa del N. del Seno Mex...

Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermark: Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and yellow watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. Indexed. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 976 Available also through the Library of Cong... more

[Costa de Cuba desde Cabo de San Antonio a la bahía de Cardenas].

Scale ca. 1:270,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermarks: D. & C. Blauw; and, the letters DCB in a shield with a double letter. Mounted on cloth backing. Oriented with north to the bottom. Depths... more

Plano del Lago de San Bernardo en el Seno Mexicano /

Oriented with north to the right. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 975 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated ... more

Plano del Lago de Sn. Bernardo en el Seno Mexica no. /

Watermarks: J. Kool; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Watermark dated as 1792. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 974 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site a... more

Map Polk County, Texas

Shows names of residents. LC Land ownership maps, 1098 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A chart of the internal part of Louisiana : including all the hitherto...

Scale ca. 1:2,450,000. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. "Plate II." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes. AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2

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

Mapa topográfico de la provincia de Texas.

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. See Carlos E. Castañeda and Eary Martin, Jr., Three manuscript maps of Texas by Stephan F. Austin, p. 16-45... more

Declaration del Pueblo de Tejas, reunido enconvencion general ... En l...

Imprin 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as facsimile page images. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 176, Folder 1.

Map of Texas with parts of the adjoining states

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich. "Entered according to Act of Congress the 17th day of March 1830 by H.S. Tanner of the state of Pennsylvania." "The latitude and longitude of... more

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

Gobierno supremo del estado libre de Coahuila y Tejas. El Vice-goberna...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as facsimile page images. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 176, Folder 2.

Gobierno supreme del Estado libre de Coahuila y Tejas. El Gobernador d...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as facsimile page images. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 176, Folder 6.

Gobierno supremo del Estado libre de Coahuila y Tejas. El gobernador d...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as facsimile page images. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 176, Folder 4.

El gobernador del estado libre de Coahuila y Texas á sus habitantes .....

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as facsimile page images. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 176, Folder 5.

Proclamation of Sam. Houston, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Texas....

Broadside, no illus., of silk. Reference copy may be in LOT 4414T. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Prints on cloth; Texas History; PI; Rare Bk. Div.; Broadsid... more

Houston, Santa Anna, and Cos

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

Map of Texas with parts of the adjoining states /

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1835 by H.S. Tanner in the Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." "The latitude ... more

Major Joe Bunker's last parade, or the fix of a senator and his 700 in...

Democratic senator Nathaniel P. Tallmadge of New York was the leader of the conservative or pro-Bank Democrats. Here Clay satirizes Tallmadge's attempts to undermine party support for Van Buren's hard money fis... more

[Photostats of $1, $20, $50, and $100 bills of currency issued by the ...

Currency. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 176, Folder 7.

Anti-Texas Meeting at Faneuil Hall!, Friends of Freedom! ... Jan. 24, ...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4414T. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Title from item. Caption card tracings: Mass. Boston Hist.; Statehood (Amer. politics); Texas Hist.; Broadsides 1... more

Texan universal pills. Prepared after a careful personal examination o...

0642G 1 24 F 48.; Rec. 3-29-48 $12.50. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 176, Folder 7a.

Mr. Calhoun- Mr. Van Buren- Texas. As the time when the Convention is ...

Ximenes.; On verso: Texas; 8899. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 231, Folder 22.

Sketch of Texas with the boundaries of Mexican States as shown on Gene...

Manuscript. Red and black ink, watercolor, and pencil. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Map of the River Sabine from its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico in the se...

Phillips, 1384 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy in 3 parts. [See Sen. Doc. 199 2nd Session, 27th Congr. LC Vo. 397 for text and smaller maps] Mounted on cloth. ... more

Texas meeting in Nashville [Nashville, 184-].

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 175, Folder 13a.

The Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Socorro, or Socorro Mission, w...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The present Socorro Mission was constructed c.1840 to replace an earlier 18th-century mission destroyed in 1829 by flooding of the Ri... more

Map of Texas.

Signed by W. Bollaert. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

The Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Socorro, or Socorro Mission, w...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The present Socorro Mission was constructed c.1840 to replace an earlier 18th-century mission destroyed in 1829 by flooding of the Ri... more

The Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Socorro, or Socorro Mission, w...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The present Socorro Mission was constructed c.1840 to replace an earlier 18th-century mission destroyed in 1829 by flooding of the Ri... more

Map of Texas /

Relief shown by hachures. "London, pub'd 17 April, 1841 by John Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square." Sectioned together in 18 pieces mounted on cloth backing. Torn around edges on some sections. Includes hand written n... more

Map of the river Sabine from Logan's Ferry to 32nd degree of north lat...

Relief shown by hachures. " ... it appears from a letter of J.H. Overton, United States Commissioner, dated Opelousas, Louisiana, August 10 1841 ... and the reply of October 1, 1841 ... that the maps ... had no... more

The little magician invoked

Martin Van Buren, known as "the Little Magician" for his remarkable political agility, summons spirits to divine the Democratic or "Loco Foco" prospects for election in 1844. He sits in an astrological circle, ... more

Footrace, Pennsylvania Avenue. Stakes $25,000

The race for a $25,000 prize (the president's salary) is a metaphor for the 1844 campaign. The favored contender here is Henry Clay. The other runners are James K. Polk and John Tyler, while commentaries are of... more

Anti annexation procession

A cynical look at the opposition to American annexation of Texas during the 1844 campaign. At the head of a motley procession is Whig candidate and professed anti-annexationist Henry Clay, riding a raccoon (wh... more

The masked battery or Loco-Foco strategy

Another commentary on the Texas question (see "Texas Coming In," no. 1844-28), illustrating Democratic campaign strategy as advanced by Andrew Jackson. The idea of the annexation of Texas, repudiated by many of... more

Sale of dogs

Seeking a middle course between the issues of the annexation of Texas on one hand and abolitionism on the other, Van Buren lost the support of southern Democrats, including elderly statesman Andrew Jackson. Her... more

Going to Texas after the election of 1844

A comic scene anticipating a Whig victory in the upcoming presidential election. The date is 1845, after an election supposedly decided on the Texas question, the tariff issue, and Democratic identification wi... more

Matty meeting the Texas question

A satire on the Democrats' approach to the delicate question of the annexation of Texas. In marked contrast to his portrayal of the issue as a beautiful woman in "Virtuous Harry" (no. 1844-27), the artist here ... more

[Memucan Hunt, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right]

Envoy, Minister Plenipotentiary, from Republic of Texas. Identification from engraving in DeBow's Southern and Western Review, October, 1852, frontispiece. Scratched on face of plate: 207; Hunt, Texas. Scratche... more

The two bridges

As in "Texas Coming In" (no. 1844-28), a bridge over Salt River is the central motif, making the difference between the Whigs' successful crossing to the "Presidential Chair" and the disastrous route taken by t... more

Virtuous Harry, or set a thief to catch a thief!

A satire on the Whig party's anti-annexation platform. The question of whether or not to annex Texas was a large issue separating candidates in the 1844 campaign. Annexation's serious implications for the futur... more

Texas coming in

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

Texas: Church of Alamo, San Antonio de Bexar

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

Map of Texas and the countries adjacent.

"Published by order of the U.S. Senate." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Political cock fighters

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

No annexation of Texas. It having been announced by the government org...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 119, Folder 26a.

Cleansing the Augean stable

A pro-Whig satire, envisioning the cleansing of the "Augean Stable" of government corruption by presidential candidate Henry Clay and other Whigs. The title derives from one of the twelve mythical labors of Her... more

City of Houston - The Capitol of Texas

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

Port of Galveston [Texas]

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

Review of Texas troops

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

The coon party crossing Cayuga Bridge Novr. 1844. Or the effects of C...

A cartoon on the defeat of Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election, ascribing his loss of the state of New York to his cousin Cassius M. Clay's campaign tour on his behalf. Oddly, though given promine... more

Quartel general, exercito de ocupacion, Corpus Christi 8 de Marzo, de ...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as facsimile page images. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 176, Folder 8.

The capture of General Vega (In the act of discharging a canon); by th...

Print shows Captain Charles Augustus May, on horseback, stopping General Vega, in the act of lighting a fuse on a cannon; troops all around them are still fighting. No. 158. Title from item. Below image: Entere... more

The capture of General Vega (In the act of discharging a canon) by the...

Print shows Captain Charles Augustus May, on horseback, stopping General Vega, in the act of lighting a fuse on a cannon; troops all around them are still fighting. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print fili... more

The brilliant charge of Capt. May--At the Battle of Resaca de la Palma...

No. 554. Copyright by N. Currier. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 772.

Provincias internas del reyno de Nuevo España /

Shows Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, eastern Coahuila, and southern Texas in 179-? Relief shown by hachures and form lines. Copied by author in 1846. Pen-and-ink, blue and red inks, and pencil on tracing paper. Availa... more

Volunteers for Texas. As you were

A scornful portrayal of the poor caliber of American volunteers for the Mexican War. The print evidently appeared at the outset of the conflict, as the Library's impression was deposited for copyright on May 13... more

A new map of Texas, Oregon and California.

Texas /

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Washington, Greenwich, Paris, and Ferro. In upper left corner: Myer's Handatlas. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Plan of the ground situated to the north of Matamoras between the Rio ...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the American routes & the battles indicated by Lt. Brereton's ordiance. Pen-and-ink and watercolor mounted on linen. Copy of a map taken from the portfolio of Gen. Arista after t... more

Ultimatum on the Oregon question

In his typically jingoist view of Polk's handling of the Oregon question, the artist Edward Williams Clay belittles the self-interested attitudes of Europe toward the dispute. The issue of whether to settle the... more

A map of the United States of Mexico : as organized and defined by the...

Relief shown by hachures. Cover title: Tanner's travelling map of Mexico. Prime meridian: Washington. "Entered according to Act of Congress, the 2nd day of April 1832, by H.S. Tanner, of the state of Pennsylvan... more

Mr. Clay taking a new view of the Texas question

Illustration shows Henry Clay, dressed in doublet and breast plate with a brace of pistols at his waist, holding a carving knife and fork, at an open door in which a tiny "Mexican" cowers on a shelf. Below the ... more

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

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

The Democratic funeral of 1848

Foreseeing political death for the Democrats in the election, the artist imagines a funeral of the party's standard-bearers with a procession of the faithful. Democratic senators (left to right) Sam Houston of ... more

[David Emanuel Twiggs, half-length portrait, facing right]

Print shows General Twiggs, who became a general in the late 1840s during the Mexican-American War, commanded the Department of Texas for the U.S. Army, and accepted a commission in the Confederate Army in 1861... more

U.S. Reports: Bennett v. Butterworth, 49 U.S. (8 How.) 124 (1850)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 49; Howard Volume 8; January Term, 1850; John H. Bennett, Plaintiff in error, v. Samuel F. Butterworth.

[Market Square, Cleburne, Texas]

Photograph shows Market Square in Cleburne, Texas looking northeast; with people, horses, and wagons in foreground, Title devised by Library staff. On caption card: Reed Stroop Drug Co. On back of photo: Wittem... more

U.S. Reports: Bennett v. Butterworth, 52 U.S. (11 How.) 669 (1851)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 52; Howard Volume 11; December Term, 1850; John H. Bennett, Plaintiff in error, v. Samuel F. Butterworth

The fountain in Market Square, which was created in 1850 for perpetual...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Today the market is a small, crowded park surrounded by municipal buildings and the cityÆs local bus terminal. Credit line: The Lyda ... more

U.S. Reports: League v. De Young et al., 52 U.S. (11 How.) 185 (1851)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 52; Howard Volume 11; December Term, 1850; Thomas M. League, Plaintiff in error, v. John De Young, Surveyor for the District of Galveston, and Samuel P. Brown, Deputy

The Stillman House Museum, among the oldest surviving structures in Br...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The home was built in 1850 by Henry Miller, owner of the Miller Hotel in downtown Brownsville. He rented it to his partner, Charles S... more

U.S. Reports: Oakey v. Bennett et al., 52 U.S. (11 How.) 33 (1851)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 52; Howard Volume 11; December Term, 1850; Samuel W. Oakey, Plaintiff in error, v. John H. Bennett, Administrator of William Hall, and John H. Illies

U.S. Reports: Christy v. Findley, 55 U.S. (14 How.) 296 (1853)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 55; Howard Volume 14; December Term, 1852; William Christy, Plaintiff in error, v. William Findley

U.S. Reports: Christy v. Young, 55 U.S. (14 How.) 296 (1853)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 55; Howard Volume 14; December Term, 1852; William Christy, Plaintiff in error, v. William Young

U.S. Reports: Calkin and Company v. Cocke, 55 U.S. (14 How.) 227 (1853...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 55; Howard Volume 14; December Term, 1852; E. P. Calkin and Samuel Jones, trading under the Firm and Style of E. P. Calkin and Company, Plaintiffs in error, v. James H. Cocke

Soliciting a vote

A cynical view of party competition for the working man's vote in the presidential campaign of 1852. In a polling place, four candidates struggle to force their own election ticket on a short, uncouth-looking c... more

U.S. Reports: Kennett et al. v. Chambers, 55 U.S. (14 How.) 38 (1852)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 55; Howard Volume 14; December Term, 1852; John Kennett, Ezekiel S. Haines, Eden B. Reeder, George Graham, Jr., John McCarty, Joshua Yorke, and Robert B. Bowler, Appellants, v. ... more

U.S. Reports: Christy v. Henley, 55 U.S. (14 How.) 297 (1853)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 55; Howard Volume 14; December Term, 1852; William Christy, Plaintiff in error, v. Hiram Henley

Loco Foco candidates travelling, on the canel system

Several prospective Democratic presidential candidates travel along a canal in the "Salt River Barge," named after the proverbial river of political defeat. The passengers are (left to right): Lewis Cass, secre... more

A bird's eye view of the city of New York View of Galveston, Texas.

Illustration showing a bird's eye view of New York City looking toward Battery Park (?) and a view of Galveston from the bay, boats and ships in foreground. Illus. in: Gleason's pictorial, v. 2, no. 20 (1852 M... more

Map of the state of Texas, engraved to illustrate Mitchell's School an...

"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by S.A. Mitchell in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lin... more

U.S. Reports: Sheppard et al. v. Graves, 55 U.S. (14 How.) 505 (1853)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 55; Howard Volume 14; December Term, 1852; Abram Sheppard and John Duncan, Plaintiffs in error, v. Peyton S. Graves

U.S. Reports: Doss et al. v. Tyack et al., 55 U.S. (14 How.) 297 (1853...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 55; Howard Volume 14; December Term, 1852; Stephen W. Doss and Stewart Newell, Appellants, v. William Tyack and Lindley Murray

U.S. Reports: Christy v. Scott et al., 55 U.S. (14 How.) 282 (1853)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 55; Howard Volume 14; December Term, 1852; William Christy, Plaintiff in error, v. William T. Scott; William Christy v. James D. Findley; William Christy v. William Young; Willi... more

Map of the Cairo & Fulton Railroad exhibiting the principal tributary ...

Map showing Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and part of Texas. Shows drainage, cities and towns, and state boundaries, west of the Mississippi River. The adjoining area east of the Mississippi River shows only t... more

Map of a part of the State of Louisiana exhibiting the route of the Ne...

Mississippi delta area shows drainage, sugar crop, parishes, major cities and towns, canals, and railroads with lines named and distances on the main line. This railroad was opened for first 50 miles on March 6... more

J. De Cordova's map of the state of Texas /

Relief shown by hachures. Shows counties. "Entered according to Act of Congress on the 28th day of July 1848 by J. De Cordova in the Clerks Office of the United States District Court for the District of Texas."... more

U.S. Reports: United States v. Davenport's Heirs, 56 U.S. (15 How.) 1 ...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 56; Howard Volume 15; December Term, 1853; United States, Appellants, v. Samuel Davenport's Heirs, The

U.S. Reports: Christy v. Alford, 58 U.S. (17 How.) 601 (1855)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 58; Howard Volume 17; December Term, 1854; William Christy, Plaintiff in Error, v. Lodovick P. Alford, Administrator of Henry D. Bullard, deceased

Rio San Pedro - second crossing of Devil's Rivers J.D.S

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Devil's River valley with a military camp in the middle ground on the left, with the river visible in the background, and with mountains on the right and beyond the river. A... more

Samuel Houston / engd. by W.J. Edwards, from a daguerreotype.

Print shows Sam Houston, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval with scroll work border above a cartouche showing a view of the "City of Houston in Texas." Title from item. (DLC/PP-1998:151) Forms p... more

The morning after the election--November 1856

The victorious James Buchanan sits under a trellis of grape vines, holding reports of election returns on his lap. He reflects, "What a happy morning for my country and myself. Here I find returns for myself & ... more

Cathedral Rock, south peak of Guadalupe Mountains, El Paso Co., Texas ...

Illus. in: Southern Pacific Railroad / A.B. Gray. Cincinnati : Wrightson & Co.'s Print., 1856, opp. p. 19.

Texas, part of New Mexico & c

Longitude west from Washington and Greenwich. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; William W. Carter; June 2003. Acquisitions control no. 2003-94

Guadalupe Mountains, near El Paso, Texas, viewed from the east / Middl...

Illus. in: Southern Pacific Railroad / A.B. Gray. Cincinnati : Wrightson & Co.'s Print., 1856, opp. p. 18.

Pressler's map of the state of Texas /

"General Land Office, Austin, November 18th 1857." Relief shown by hachures. Shows longitude West from Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to an act of Congress, in the year 1858, by Jones, Root & Co. ... more