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Title: An Account of the Yellow Fever
Identifier: foth_0421_multipage
Creator: Smith, Ashbel, 1805-1886
Dates: 1839
Description: The state of public health in Texas was precarious at best, and epidemics of cholera, typhus, and other diseases were common. Ashbel Smith gained national notice with a study of yellow fever in Texas.

Title: Andrew Jackson to Anthony Butler
Identifier: foth_0563_multipage
Creator: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Dates: 1829-10-19
Description: President Andrew Jackson replaces Joel Poinsett with Anthony Butler who will continue negotiations with the Mexican government for the purchase of Texas.

Title: Annexation of Texas
Identifier: foth_0549
Dates: 1837
Description: In the 25th Congress of the United States House of Representatives, 3,029 Massachusetts women signed a petition against the annexation of Texas into the United States as a slaveholding state.

Title: Anonymous Englishman's Diary
Identifier: foth_0417_multipage
Dates: 1842
Description: This anonymous writer records physical descriptions of the country and discusses several issues confronting the Republic of Texas.

Title: Authorization letter from President James K. Polk
Identifier: foth_0583
Creator: Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849
Dates: 1845-12-29
Description: Letter from President James K. Polk admitting Texas to the United States.

Title: Brigade Orders
Identifier: foth_0488
Creator: Texas. Army
Dates: 1838
Description: This broadside calls for volunteers to fight Indians on the northeastern frontier.

Title: Certificate of shares
Identifier: foth_0544
Dates: 1839-12
Description: The Consolidated Fund was established June 7, 1837, to help finance public debt.

Title: Circular from the Committee of Safety of the Jurisdiction of Austin
Identifier: foth_0257
Creator: San Felipe de Austin. Committee of Safety
Dates: 1835-10-03
Description: Circular from the Committee of Safety of the Jurisdiction of Austin, dated October 3, 1835, reporting the advancing Mexican troops from Béxar.

Title: Citizens of Texas
Identifier: foth_0477
Dates: 1841
Description: Ballot for the Republic of Texas presidency. Sam Houston defeated David G. Burnet in the election.

Title: The Citizens of the jurisdiction of Columbia--to their Fellow Citizens of all Texas
Identifier: foth_0255_multipage
Creator: Columbia. Committee of Safety
Dates: 1835-08-20
Description: The citizens of the jurisdiction of Columbia issued this broadside on August 20, 1835, calling for a consultation to convene at Washington-on-the-Brazos on October 15, 1835.

Title: Civil Commandant of the Colony forming on the Colorado and Brassos Rivers, in the Province of Texas . . .
Identifier: foth_0022
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1821
Description: Upon returning to New Orleans after an initial survey of Texas in the summer of 1821, Stephen F. Austin issued this permit stating the terms under which Austin would admit settlers to the colony. The formal procedure for an immigrant seeking admission to Austin's Colony required that he present himself to Austin upon arrival, register his name, and take an oath to support the federal and state constitutions. He thus became an applicant and was given a permit to select land. The settler then was required to give notice of his choice of land within thirty days and to petition for the land. Instructions were then issued to the surveyor to survey and plat the land and, upon payment of fees, the commissioner issued the title.

Title: Colorado and Red River Land Company
Identifier: foth_0114_multipage
Creator: Colorado and Red River Land Company
Dates: 1835
Description: The Colorado and Red River Land Company issued this pamphlet to assure stockholders that speculation in Texas lands would prove to be a prudent move.

Title: Columbia citizens
Identifier: foth_0254
Dates: 1835-08
Description: Resolutions adopted at a meeting held in Columbia on August 15, 1835. Columbia was one of the earliest communities within Stephen F. Austin's colony.

Title: Constitution of the Republic of Texas
Identifier: foth_0410_multipage
Dates: 1836-08-09
Description: Up to the time of this publication, the Constitution of the Republic of Texas had not been widely distributed due to interruptions in press production caused by the Texas Revolution and its aftermath.

Title: Crockett at the Alamo
Identifier: foth_0325
Dates: 1848
Description: The Idle Hour Book is a joke book that contains an illustrated biography of David Crockett, including an image depicting Crockett's heroic death at the Alamo while swinging his musket. Page from The Idle Hour Book, or Scrapiana; Being a Nerve-Worker, Care Destroyer, and Genuine Countenance Disturber . . . Containing all the Information Necessary to Raise a Laugh at the Shortest Notice[. . .].

Title: Decreto de 6 de Abril de 1830 [Law of April 6, 1830]
Identifier: foth_0202_multipage
Creator: Republic of Mexico
Dates: 1830-04-06
Description: Mexican colonization law prohibiting further emigration from nations bordering on the Mexican Republic, designed specifically to stop the flood of emigrants from the United States to Texas.

Title: Diary of Somervell's Expedition Against the Southwest in 1842 and 1843
Identifier: foth_0516_multipage
Dates: 1843
Description: Led by General Alexander Somervell, the expedition answered the Mexican army's raids into Texas in 1842. A force of 700 men left San Antonio in November 1842, but by mid-December Somervell recognized the insufficiencies in planning and preparation and, to avoid an overwhelming defeat, ordered his men to return home. Almost half of the original force continued to Mexico as part of the Mier Expedition.

Title: Diary of Thomas Nunn
Identifier: foth_0172_multipage
Creator: Nunn, Thomas
Dates: 1835-05-18
Description: Thomas Nunn records his trip on board a schooner from New Orleans to Texas beginning in February 1835. He discusses a cholera outbreak, Velasco, San Felipe de Austin, [Robertson's] Colony, and the changing landscape during his journey.

Title: East Texas Oil Fields, East Texas Oil Fields
Identifier: e_enr_292
Contributor: Studtman Photo Service, 19th & Lavaca, Austin
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: circa 1920-1930
Resource: Oral history of the Texas oil industry collection
Description: Derrick in field with wooden outbuildings and 2 cars

Title: East Texas Oil Fields, East Texas Oil Fields
Identifier: e_enr_293
Contributor: Studtman Photo Service, 19th & Lavaca, Austin
Topic: Petroleum industry
Dates: circa 1920-1930
Resource: Oral history of the Texas oil industry collection
Description: Derrick in field with wooden outbuildings and 2 cars

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