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Title: An Act, Locating temporarily the Seat of Government.
Identifier: BC_0086
Creator: Texas (republic). Laws.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1839
Box: BC DB 1838-1839
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas...That...after the first day of April next, the seat of Government for the Republic of Texas, shall be established at the town of [blank] until the end of the Session...which shall assemble in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty. [handwriting on back]

Title: An Act, to quiet forever the Land Titles of the Citizens of Texas.
Identifier: BC_0081
Creator: Texas (republic). Laws.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1837
Box: BC DB 1837
Resource: Broadside collection, Eberstadt collection
Description: Whereas, by the colonization laws of the federal government of Mexico, and also of the state of Coahuila and Texas, certain formalities were required on the part of the colonists and empresarios...Now, therefore, be it enacted by...congress assembled...That the above mentioned description of titles be...good and valid...

Title: Certificate of Stock in the Town of Swartwout.
Identifier: BC_0308
Creator: Swartwout. Proprietors.
Topic: Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources
Dates: 1838?
Box: 3N182 file 9
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
Box: BC DB 1831-1832
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
Box: BC DB 1838-1839
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
Box: 3Y203
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.

Title: John Lomax and J. Frank Dobie, John Lomax and J. Frank Dobie
Identifier: e_lfp_0054
Box: 3S236
Folder: 3
Resource: John Avery Lomax family papers
Description: Large photographic print of (left to right) John Lomax, unidentified man, and J. Frank Dobie

Title: Letter from Huddie Ledbetter to John Lomax, Letter from Huddie Ledbetter to John Lomax
Identifier: e_bte_24
Creator: Ledbetter, Huddie
Dates: 1934
Box: 3D157
Folder: 11
Resource: John Avery Lomax family papers
Description: Letter from Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly) written to John Lomax while Lead Belly was in Angola State Prison in Louisiana