This collection contains pieces printed by Samuel Bangs, generally recognized as the first printer in Texas whose work survives. Most of these were assembled by a rare books dealer for James L. Britton, III, who donated them to SHSU.
Judges; Baylor, Robert Emmett Bledsoe; Franklin, Benjamin Cromwell; Williamson, Robert McAlpin [Three Legged Willie]; Mills, John T.; Branch, Edward Thomas
Thirty documents represents original papers signed by a number of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300"[among the earliest Anglo settlers]. They were assembled by a rare books dealer for James L. Britton, III, who donated them to SHSU.
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May 9, 1878 Letter (written on International & Great Northern R. R. stationary) from Margaret Thornton to her cousin Harry Shaw describing the loss of the family's home and all their belongings to a fire that consumed an entire block...
SHH II:C:2
[CIVIL WAR ERA BROADSIDE] " NOTICE TO COTTON PLANTERS AND COTTON HOLDERS", that the Assistant Assessor, Wm. R. Stapp, "will at all times be ready at Huntsville, to weigh and assess your cotton, and the Deputy Collector, B.S. Wilson, to...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
GONZALES CABOFRANCO, JUAN (GOVERNOR OF PUEBLA. Broadside, June 4, 1845, reprinted Puebla, June 11, 1845. The act provides for the call-up of citizens to defend national independence, arming of all...
Houston, Samuel; Correspondence; Republic of Texas
(i) Fragment of letter, n. d., n. p. 4 pp. 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 From ? To: General Sam HOUSTON, President of Texas (by inference from content) Re: Military confrontation between Captain James COOKE of U. S. Dragoons and Colonel Jacob SNIVELY of Texas....
SHH II:D:11
PRE-EMPTION CERTIFICATE. To: Nehemiah PAGE, November 28, 1860. From: Sam HOUSTON, Governor of the State of Texas. No. 378. Signed, SAM HOUSTON, Governor, also Francis M. WHITE, Commissioner. 2pp. 13 x 10 3/4
Mexico; Texas; Spanish America; Indians of North America; Native peoples of North America; Native peoples of the Americas;
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:11
ARRILLAGA, FRANCISCO DE. Broadside, Mexico, October 7, 1823. The Decreto recites the deplorable condition to which the Province of Texas had been reduced by Indian...
SHH II:B:11
P.H. BELL, Washington, May 23, 1856, to Major BOWMAN, requesting that Lieutenant Walter H. STEVENS of the Engineer Corps, recently assigned coast survey duty in California, be allowed to go on with his performance in Texas. 1p. 10 x 7...
SHH II:D:3
TEXIAN LOAN, Certificate #120, $320, received of Robert TRIPLETT, City of New Orleans, January 11, 1836, signed by S.F. AUSTIN, B.T. ARCHER, William H. WHARTON. One way Texas financed the war for independence was by accepting loans from...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
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MOORE, ROBERT, DS, (Galveston) July 3, 1846. Promissory note for $400 "for value received which may be discharged in a good likely young black woman not more than twenty...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:7
TOM, JOSEPH, ADS, Austin Colony, August 11, 1843. Promissory note to W. Pinchard pledging "two gentle cows and calves or twenty dollars" for the hire of his negro...
SHH VI:18
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
PRICE, L.F., ADS, La Grange, June 11, 1860. Slave sale for $1375 of "a certain negro man named Bill...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:6
ITURBIDE, AUGUSTIN, Emperor of Mexico after independence from Spain. Broadside, Mexico City, October 11, 1821. The first decreto issued by Iturbide as Regent urging the adoption of his "Plan...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:5
APODACA, JUAN RUIZ, Last Viceroy of New Spain and the last Spanish ruler over Texas. Broadside signed, Mexico, December 11, 1819. 2 pp. 12 x 17, TEXT IN SPANISH.
(f) Copy of a letter dated January 28, 1843, Legation de France au Texas, Galveston. 2pp. 7 3/4 x 11 1/4 From: Edouard de CRAMAYEL, Charge D'Affaires de France au Texas [ad interim for Dubois de Saligny while he was on leave in France] To: Anson...
