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 about 1877 Autograph Letter Signed by a Texas Rancher, Scoundrel, and Officer Charles T. Witherell, 1st...
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 about 1851 Letter concerning a Legal Dispute relating to Payment of Republic of Texas Bonds, from...
![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 about LBJ for the USA. [1964 Presidential Campaign
![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 about LBJ for the USA. [1964 Presidential Campaign
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 about Chicago House. Fritz Scheel, Proprietor ... Galveston, Tex
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 about 1901 Autograph Letter Signed by James Bean, Brother of Legendary Judge Roy Bean—“The Law West...
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 about Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
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 about The Great Question for the People! Essays on the Elective Franchise; or, Who Has the Right to Vote?
“This study concentrates on the gradual decline of the Negro’s status in the post-Reconstruction era. The author describes blacks’ fight for equity in the political..... Read More about The Negro in Texas, 1874-1900
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 about Kept by Texas Livermore Expedition Leader and Diplomat Lt. Col. William R. Livermore and his...
![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 about The Texas Terrors:] American Football ... Souvenir Programme
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 about Circa 1890s–early 1900s Collection of Thirteen Handwritten Letters to Judge R.E. Hendry and Ed...
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 about A Centennial Fourth of July Democratic Celebration. The Massacre of Six Colored Citizens of the...
![The Madman of the Colorado. A Thrilling Legend of the Southwest. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier...](/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 about The Madman of the Colorado. A Thrilling Legend of the Southwest. [within:] Beadle’s Frontier...
![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 about San Antonio Texas, Map] The Buckhorn Curio Store (Museum
