Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:12
(GUERRERO, VICENTE RAMON), President of Mexico,1829. Broadside signed in type, Mexico City, May 5, 1824. The first indication given the Texas colonists that their interests were not...
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:9
LOPEZ, GASPAR, First Mexican Commandant of the Eastern Provinces and of Texas. Document signed, Monterrey, March 27, 1822. An Executive Order: No. 275, directing Alcaldes not to release news...
Judges; Baylor, Robert Emmett Bledsoe; Franklin, Benjamin Cromwell; Williamson, Robert McAlpin [Three Legged Willie]; Mills, John T.; Branch, Edward Thomas
SHH II:A:3:b
January 16th 1870 Letter from Margaret Thornton and F. D. Thornton to her cousins Harry and Emma Shaw describing Christmas in Huntsville and relating how members of her church raised money to pay off the church's debt by the first of...
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...
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.
SHH IX:19
Marcy maps of 1850. Topographical Map of the Road from Fort Smith, Arks. To Santa Fe, N.M. and from Dona Ana, N.M. to Fort Smith. G4295 1850 M37 1981 - Map I. (2 sections). [Donated by Texas Map Society on the occasion of its...
SHH IX:26
Marcy Maps of 1853. Map of the Country Between the Frontiers of Arkansas and New Mexico. G4295 1850 M37 1981 - Map II. (6 sections). [Donated by Texas Map Society on the occasion of its first meeting, hosted by University of...
SHH VII:20
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
GUERRERO, VICENTE. Broadside, Mexico, September 15, 1829. In a landmark decree, unknown to Streeter, Mexico abolishes slavery and becomes the first Western Hemisphere state to do so. 1...
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.
