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Title: Fuerte de San Antonio de Valero, llamado communmente del Alamo . . .
Identifier: foth_0328
Creator: Navarro, José Juan Sánchez
Dates: 1836
Description: Sánchez Navarro kept a private record in two ledgers detailing his observations both of the siege of Béxar in 1835 and the assault on the Alamo in 1836. In one ledger he drew this plan of the Alamo, identifying the fort's physical components and its defenses, with comments on their relative strengths.

Title: Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company
Identifier: foth_0111
Creator: Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company
Dates: 1830-10-16
Description: A blank certificate issued by the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, which, when executed, would entitle the person named to one labor. The company's lands, shown at the bottom of the document, consisted of the grants issued to David G. Burnet, Lorenzo de Zavala, and Joseph Vehlein.

Title: General Houston, Santa Anna, and Cós
Identifier: foth_0388
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857
Dates: 1836
Description: In this popular print the victorious General Houston, dressed in colorful Indian garb, vents his moral wrath on the defeated Mexican commanders. The contemporary lithograph suggests how deeply the events of the Texas Revolution resonated in the United States.

Title: George C. Childress Ivory Painting
Identifier: foth_0642
Dates: 1836
Description: Miniature watercolor portrait on ivory. It is generally assumed that Childress wrote the Texas declaration of independence with little help from his fellow committee members. This miniature is the only known image of George Campbell Childress, chair of the Convention of 1836, out of which came the Unanimous Declaration of Independence.

Title: Hanington's Grand Moving Dioramas
Identifier: foth_0393_multipage
Creator: Hanington, William J.
Dates: 1836
Description: William J. Hanington produced many moving dioramas between 1832 and 1856. This broadside advertised a feature on "General Houston's Glorious Victory." (A diorama, sometimes called a moving panorama, consisted of multiple canvas paintings sewn together and attached at either end to a vertical roller. The action would unfold as the large canvas was wound from one roller to another.)

Title: Henri Castro to Louis Huth
Identifier: foth_0444_multipage
Creator: Castro, Henri, 1786-1865
Dates: 1844-12-03
Description: After arriving in Washington, Texas, Henri Castro reports to Huth of the impending annexation events.

Title: Henry Fisher to Anson Jones
Identifier: foth_0453_multipage
Creator: Fisher, Henry F., 1805-1867
Dates: 1844-06-27
Description: Fisher reports that he has procured the necessary funds and emigrants to carry out his colonization contract - Society for the Protection of German Emigrants to Texas.

Title: Hickman Indoor Picnic
Identifier: e_math_00523
Dates: 1988-05-12
Resource: Robert E. Greenwood papers
Description: Robert E. Greenwood (left), David Ahearn

Title: Inauguration Ball: Third Year of Independence
Identifier: foth_0478
Dates: 1838-12-10
Description: Invitation to the inaugural ball of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, elected president of the Republic of Texas in 1838. Lamar served as vice president in Sam Houston's first administration.

Title: James Pinckney Henderson
Identifier: foth_0584
Creator: Marks, H. R. (Harvey R.), 1821-1902
Dates: 1850
Description: Texas' first governor was J. Pinckney Henderson, who had previously served the Republic as attorney general, secretary of state, and minister to France and then the United States.

Title: Juan N. Seguín to Sam Houston
Identifier: foth_0489_multipage
Creator: Seguín, Juan Nepomuceno, 1806-1890
Dates: 1837-03-09
Description: Juan Seguín recounts his troop's movements, news of a possible Mexican invasion, and Texas Indian tribes' collaboration with the Mexican army.

Title: Land in the Nashville Company
Identifier: foth_0103
Creator: Robertson, Sterling C. (Sterling Clark), 1785-1842, Nashville Company
Dates: 1834
Description: After receiving his empresario contract for the Nashville Colony, Sterling C. Robertson issued this broadside encouraging settlement in the colony. The broadside includes transcriptions of Robertson's claims to the colony prior to his receiving the contract.

Title: Laws
Identifier: foth_0204_multipage
Dates: 1834-04-19
Description: This decree divided the state of Coahuila and Texas into seven departments. Three of the seven were in Texas: Bexar, Brazos, and Nacogdoches.

Title: Leftwich Grant
Identifier: foth_0102
Dates: 1835-10
Description: Robert Leftwich played a key role in the founding of Robertson's colony. The contract was granted on April 25, 1825, and gave Leftwich permission to settle 800 families.

Title: The Legion of Liberty, remonstrance of some free men, states, and presses to the Texas Rebellion
Identifier: foth_0556_multipage
Creator: Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839
Contributor: American anti-slavery society
Description: The American Anti-Slavery Society distributed this pamphlet attacking the Texas Revolution and the possible annexation of Texas as part of a larger conspiracy to expand the institution of slavery to the western United States.

Title: Letter, 1832
Identifier: foth_0161_multipage
Creator: Henson, W. N.
Dates: 1832
Description: Letter describes birth of son, and writes that "death is abroad in this land," in reference to a typhoid outbreak in 1832.

Title: Letter from Dudley G. Wooten expressing support for formation of state historical society, Letter from Dudley G. Wooten expressing support for formation of state historical society
Identifier: di_11135
Creator: Dudley Wooten
Dates: 1897-02-16
Resource: Texas State Historical Association records
Description: Letter from Dudley G. Wooten to Professor George P. Garrison, chairman of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin, indicating his support for the formation of a state historical society (page four of four).

Title: Letter from Dudley G. Wooten expressing support for formation of state historical society, Letter from Dudley G. Wooten expressing support for formation of state historical society
Identifier: di_11132
Creator: Dudley Wooten
Dates: 1897-02-16
Resource: Texas State Historical Association records
Description: Letter from Dudley G. Wooten to Professor George P. Garrison, chairman of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin, indicating his support for the formation of a state historical society (page one of four).

Title: Letter from Dudley G. Wooten expressing support for formation of state historical society, Letter from Dudley G. Wooten expressing support for formation of state historical society
Identifier: di_11134
Creator: Dudley Wooten
Dates: 1897-02-16
Resource: Texas State Historical Association records
Description: Letter from Dudley G. Wooten to Professor George P. Garrison, chairman of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin, indicating his support for the formation of a state historical society (page three of four).

Title: Letter from Dudley G. Wooten expressing support for formation of state historical society, Letter from Dudley G. Wooten expressing support for formation of state historical society
Identifier: di_11133
Creator: Dudley Wooten
Dates: 1897-02-16
Resource: Texas State Historical Association records
Description: Letter from Dudley G. Wooten to Professor George P. Garrison, chairman of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin, indicating his support for the formation of a state historical society (page two of four).

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