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Title: Fall of the Alamo-- Death of Crockett
Identifier: foth_0326
Dates: 1836
Description: This fanciful wood engraving is thought to be the first published illustration of Crockett's death at the Alamo. Page from Davy Crockett's 1837 Almanack, of Wild Sports in the West, Life in the Backwoods, & Sketches of Texas.

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: 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: O Kentucky: The Hunters of Kentucky!
Identifier: foth_0327
Dates: 1836
Description: This cover illustration is from one of a series of popular almanacs featuring David Crockett, which continued to promote the frontier exploits of the adventurer well after his death at the Alamo. In it Crockett accounts for his going to Texas as follows: "At the last canvass for a Member of Congress, in our district, I told my constituents, if they did not re-elect me, they might go to hell and I'd go to Texas. I was beaten . . . And I am now about to cut out to that country to help give the Mexicans a licking." Page from Davy Crockett's 1837 Almanack, of Wild Sports in the West, Life in the Backwoods, & Sketches of Texas.

Title: State of Louisiana, City of New Orleans
Identifier: foth_0542_multipage
Dates: 1836
Description: Text of an agreement for a $200,000, 8 percent loan to the people of Texas negotiated by Stephen F. Austin, William Branch Archer, and William Wharton.

Title: Texas Forever!
Identifier: foth_0329
Dates: 1836
Description: This is the only known copy of an inflammatory circular that demonized the Mexican army and offered substantial inducements of land to all who would come to the aid the Texan cause. The broadside contains a brief account of the Alamo siege, the outcome of which was still unknown at the time this circular was issued.

Title: To the Voters of the County of Austin
Identifier: foth_0569
Dates: 1836
Description: Moseley Baker declares his candidacy for the first Congress of the Republic of Texas. In this broadside, Baker states his support for the annexation of Texas by the United States.

Title: Ytinerario de las jornadas que ha hecho el espresado cuerpo desde la cuidad de San Luís Potosí el día 17 de Nobiembre de 1835
Identifier: foth_0348_multipage
Dates: 1836
Description: The daily itinerary for the Texas campaign of the Battalion of San Luís Potosí contains rich detail about the battalion's march to Béxar and the attack on the Alamo. The entry for March 27-28, 1836, reports the execution of James W. Fannin and his men at Coleto.