Letter from a Texas rancher, a scoundrel, and an officer at Fort Lyon, Colorado about sheep ranching and wool business in Texas. Charles Tripler Witherell... Read More
![[1851 Letter concerning a Legal Dispute relating to Payment of Republic of Texas Bonds, from Private Bank Corcoran and Riggs]. Corcoran, Riggs, 1798–1888, 1813–1881, William W. Corcoran and George W. Riggs.](/pictures/thumb/3725101_1.jpg?v=1536186548)
Texas Bonds and the Supreme Court. In the 1830s, General James Hamilton Jr., one-time Governor of South Carolina, and Texas loan commissioner, loaned money to... Read More
![LBJ for the USA. [1964 Presidential Campaign]. Democratic National Committee.](/pictures/thumb/3727407_1.jpg?v=1534362511)
Campaign poster for the 1964 election race for the 45th President of the United States. A serious and determined-looking Lyndon B. Johnson is seen superimposed... Read More
![LBJ for the USA. [1964 Presidential Campaign]. Democratic National Committee.](/pictures/thumb/3727519_1.jpg?v=1536100152)
Printed by a New Jersey job printer. Campaign poster for the 1964 election race for the 45th President of the United States. A serious and... Read More
Biingual, this 19th-century Texas trade card solicited German-speaking immigrants to stay at the Chicago House. The Chicago House was a hotel in Galveston, Texas. Emigrants... Read More
Saloon-keeper and Texas Justice of the Peace Roy Bean (ca. 1825–1903) —who styled himself “The Law West of the Pecos”— conducted an unconventional, sometimes extra-legal..... Read More
Subtitle: “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World, Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana.” The oral autobiography of Huddie Ledbetter..... Read More
History of the political right of suffrage including discussion of African Americans as citizens and as voters in ante-bellum United States. Chapters within discuss the... Read More
Near fifty (mostly) diplomatic and military calling cards kept by Lt. Col. William R. Livermore and his wife during a diplomatic posting in Stockholm and... Read More
![[The Texas Terrors:] American Football ... Souvenir Programme. Merchant Navy Day Appeal Committee.](/pictures/thumb/3724997_1.jpg?v=1534362297)
Colorful, illustrated World War II program for a U. S. Army demonstration game of American-rules football, played “Somewhere in Australia.” The game was played between..... Read More
Collection of letters relating to business transactions and the selling or administering of real estate in the 1890s and early 1900s. All the letters are... Read More
South Carolina Representative Albert Smalls (1839–1915) faced brutal opposition during the election year of 1876. On July 4th, in the all-black community of Hamburgh (Hamburg)... Read More
![The Madman of the Colorado. A Thrilling Legend of the Southwest. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier Series. Sandy G. V. Griswold, 1834–1891.](/pictures/thumb/3728220_1.jpg?v=1545247771)
Twenty-first title in “Beadle’s Frontier Series” of dime novels first published 1908–1910, but here re-issued by Arthur Westbrook c.1912. The plot involves the Native American..... Read More
![[San Antonio Texas, Map] The Buckhorn Curio Store (Museum). The Buckhorn.](/pictures/thumb/3727824_1.jpg?v=1540253932)
Advertising vehicle, date 1939, for this San Antonio fixture located on Houston Street. An inset map shows buildings and points of interests. Two curious poems... Read More
