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Title: Bill of sale for slaves, Bill of sale for slaves
Identifier: di_11544
Creator: Devereux, Julien Sidney, Sr.
Dates: 1832-02-15
Resource: Julien Sidney Devereux family papers
Description: A bill of sale for slave Kizzy, her four children, and two mules written out and witnessed by Julien Sidney Devereux.

Title: Certificate of Stock in the Town of Swartwout.
Identifier: BC_0308
Creator: Swartwout. Proprietors.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1838?
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: This is to Certify, that ------ is the holder of One Share of Stock in the Town of Swartwout, being the one hundredth part of the Stock of said Town, which is situated on Trinity River, Texas. [Blanks for signatures of] Proprietors. [Perpendicularly at left of certificate:] Telegraph Press--Houston. [handwriting on back] [Decorated with illustrations and borders in ornament areas.]

Title: Domínguez Grant
Identifier: BC_0049
Creator: Domínguez Grant.
Topic: Mexico--History--19th century--Sources
Dates: 1831-11-11
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: ---Another certificate, for one labor, instead of for one sitio of land, with text beginning: No. ---177 186/1000 English acres and with same printed date, same description, same statement at lower left, and same blanks for signatures but from another set [Decorated with patterns as design elements.] Possibly made in New York

Title: Harrisburg County, Board of Land Commissioners.
Identifier: BC_0085
Creator: Harrisburg County, Board of Land Commissioners.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1839
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: This is to Certify that [blank] has appeared before us, the Board of Land Commissioners, for the County aforesaid, and proved that [blank] arrived in this Republic in [blank]... [Decorated with borders in ornament areas.]

Title: Inventing the West: A Symposium on America's Western Experience, Inventing the West: A Symposium on America's Western Experience
Identifier: dv_00066
Creator: The University of Texas
Contributor: Schatz, Thomas (moderator), Boetticher, Budd, Slotkin, Richard, Michener, James H., Graham, Don, Newcomb, Horace
Dates: 1984-09-14
Resource: Inventing the West videotape
Description: A panel discussion on Texas mythology and its legacy in the western genre films of Holllywood. Moderated by Thomas Schatz, with panelists Budd Boetticher, James H. Michener, Richard Slotkin, Don Graham and Horace Newcomb. Sponsored by the University of Texas' Department of Radio-Television-Film and Department of American Studies, as well as Cinema Texas, The Austin Chronicle and Laguna Gloria Art Museum.