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Title: Republic of Texas, County of Washington, marriage license.
Identifier: BC_0088
Creator: Republic of Texas, County of Washington.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1839-12-07
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: Republic of Texas county of Washington, To any regularly ordained Minister of the Gospel, District Judge, Chief Justice of the County Court, or Justice of the Peace of said County, Greeting: You are hereby authorized and empowered to solemnize the rites of Matrimony between ....[This complete form is the marriage license of Robert McAdory and Nancy Ann Swisher. Dated:] at Washington, this Seventh day of December 1839. [handwriting on back]

Title: Russell and Ballard Number 3 - Desdemona on Leon River, Russell and Ballard Number 3 - Desdemona on Leon River
Identifier: e_enr_272
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: 2019-07-22
Resource: Mody Coggin Boatright papers
Description: A wooden oil derrick with 2 children playing nearby, a Ford (Model T?) and a steam engine in the background. [Note: date on back states Jan 1919. date on front entered]

Title: Russell Well Number 1 - Going Over the Top, Russell Well Number 1 - Going Over the Top
Identifier: e_enr_266
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: 2019-07-21
Resource: Mody Coggin Boatright papers
Description: First well in Rummels lo(sp?) - east of Ballinger. [Wooden Oil Derrick with oil gushing from the top. Stacks of pipe in the foreground]

Title: Scenes on the Rio Grande
Identifier: di_11692
Creator: Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper
Contributor: C.E.H. Bonwill
Dates: 1864-02-20
Resource: Graham R. Hodges print collection
Description: "Scenes on the Rio Grande" are four illustrations of buildings located off the Rio Grande in Matamoras and Brownsville, including the Plaza de Allende, the Governors Palace, the Calle de Cesar, and the Market House.

Title: Shipping oil, Story Farm, oil regions of Pennsylvania: Oil and Gas Collection
Identifier: e_enr_058
Creator: Woodward, C. W. (publisher)
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: [circa 1890-1920]
Resource: Eberstadt collection
Description: many barrels and several workers await shipping at water's edge

Title: [Stock certificate for 1,200 five dollar shares in the Bennyhoof Petroleum Company, Benj. L. (Eshleman?)]
Identifier: e_enr_038
Creator: Bennyhoof Petroleum Company
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: 1865-05-27
Resource: Eberstadt collection
Description: Oil and Gas Collection: Bennyhoof Petroleum Company Papers, 1864-1866 and undated

Title: Tex-Penn Number 1 Knowles, Tex-Penn Number 1 Knowles
Identifier: e_enr_269
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: circa 1915-1930
Resource: Mody Coggin Boatright papers
Description: 1600 bbl wooden storage tanks - well flowing directly into these tanks

Title: Tex Thorton and 2 Others, Tex Thorton and 2 Others
Identifier: e_enr_263
Dates: circa 1915-20s
Resource: Mody Coggin Boatright papers
Description: Tex Thorton and two other men standing in with boots, hats and white clothes on

Title: Texas (republic). Paymaster General.
Identifier: BC_0079
Creator: Texas (republic). Paymaster General.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1837[?]
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: [printed form, certificate of bounty land.] Republic of Texas. Know all men to whom these presents shall come: That [blank] having served faithfully and honorably for the term of [blank] months from the day of...is entitled to [blank] acres bounty land, for which this is his certificate. [handwriting on back] [Decorated with borders in ornament areas.]

Title: Texas (republic). Paymaster General.
Identifier: BC_0080
Creator: Texas (republic). Paymaster General.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1837[?]
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: [printed form, certificate of bounty land.] Republic of Texas. Know all men to whom these presents shall come: That [blank] having served faithfully and honorably for the term of [blank] months from the day of...is entitled to [blank] acres bounty land, for which this is his certificate. [Decorated with patterns as design elements.]

Title: To the People of Texas.
Identifier: BC_0253
Creator: Texas (provisional government). General Council. Advis
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1836-02-08
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: [Text begins:] Council Hall, San Felipe de Austin, Feb. 8, 1836. The advisory committee, appointed by the general council, to act in the absence of a quorum...[Text continues with an attack on Gov. Smith and the statement that two documents "emanating" from him follow. Signed:] D. C. Barrett, Chairman, [and four others. Followed by an order of Henry Smith to Thomas R. Jackson, dated January 24, 1836 and by an undated letter of Smith to Colonel W. G. Hill]. [Broadside in three columns] [handwriting on back] [Decorated with patterns as design elements.]