San Antonio: 1938. Two black-and-white photographs, each 2.75 x 4 inches. Light edge wear. Developer's stamp on verso of each. A pair of contemporary photographs featuring a neatly-dressed young Black woman with eight of her pupils. The first pictures the teacher and her students seated on the steps of a...... More

[Tyler, Tx. Texas College, 1937]. Pictorial handbill, 8 x 5 inches. Small marginal losses at top edge and bottom left corner, small puncture not costing any text, minor staining, paper remnants on verso likely from removal from a scrapbook. A seemingly-unrecorded promotional flyer advertising an April 23, 1937 performance by..... More

Houston: Texas Southern University [but printed by Armadillo Press, Austin], 1970]. [6],166,[4]pp. Publisher's illustrated wrappers. Moderate soiling to wrappers, spine somewhat darkened, minor edge wear. Internally clean. A collection of over thirty-five poems, essays, short fiction, and more written mostly by the students and faculty of Texas Southern University, an..... More

Tyler: Published by the Author, 1928. 208pp. Lacks pp.61-62. Original red cloth, cover gilt. Moderate soiling and wear, corners bumped. Minor scattered soiling, but contents generally clean. Community cook book compiled by Mary Davenport Bonner, who solicited recipes from a number of "club women" from across the country. Recipes are..... More

Mexico City: 1842. [3]pp., on a small bifolium. Minor wear and dust soiling at edges; light tanning. Scarce 1842 addendum to regulations concerning maritime customs and tariffs in Mexico. In the first of four articles contained here, Santa Anna declares that the ports of Galveston and Matagorda will be reopened..... More

Mexico City: April 7, 1843. Small broadsheet, approximately 8.5 x 6 inches. Old vertical fold. Minor dampstain at top edge. Scarce broadsheet decree promulgated on April 7, 1843, in which Santa Anna orders an increase in import tariffs to fund military operations during a rebellion in the Yucatan and renewed..... More

Mexico City: May 20, 1836. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8.25 inches. Light wear, including a couple of small chips at edges. Minor wrinkling and toning at left edge. Contemporary manuscript annotations and docketing. A rare and significant Mexican broadside decree, dated May 20, 1836, promulgated by the Secretary of War..... More

Mexico City: 1836. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8.5 inches. Light chipping and wear at corners. A rare broadside that promulgates a decree from the Mexican federal government, ordering that foreign goods be allowed into the port of Matamoros in order to supply the army in the war against Texas. It..... More

Tennessee Colony and Crockett, Tx. 1861-1876. Five manuscript letters and one manuscript document, totaling [14]pp., plus one envelope. One letter with some loss, and in fair condition. Mostly minor toning and creasing to the remainder, with some tanning. A small but notable collection of manuscript letters and documents from mid-19th-century..... More

Continental, Oh. Curtiss Showprint, [ca. 1930s]. Illustrated broadside, 24 x 9 inches. Old folds, minor toning, moderate edge wear, some chipping to edges, a handful of closed edge tears, a few repaired on verso. A rare broadside advertising a "tent show" performance by Texas Ella and her traveling Wild West..... More

Houston: 1950. Map, 22 x 17 inches. Folded. Light wear and soiling. Map of the Louisiana and southern Texas oil fields along the Gulf of Mexico. Each county is outlined, with oil fields noted in green and gas fields noted in red. More

San Antonio: Martin Blandford, 1916. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph, 10 x 47.75 inches. Minor surface wear and soiling, light occasional wrinkling. An informative panoramic photograph picturing the breadth of Camp Wilson at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio at the outset of World War I and during the Mexican border..... More

[Various locations in Texas, including San Antonio, Laredo, and Raymondville: mostly 1947-1950]. Forty-six black-and-white photographs, from 3 x 2 inches to 8 x 10 inches, one tintype, and one printed certificate. Most photographs with personalized family annotations on verso. Moderate surface and edge wear to some pictures, a few creased..... More