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[Ceremony for Missionaries #1]

Description: Photograph of an unknown ceremony involving missionaries from the Rockwall First Baptist Church in Brazil. A woman in a dress (center) holds a bouquet of flowers, looking to the right and standing in front of an altar with a flower vase. A man with a banner reading "B. VOS SAÚDAM" ("we salute you" in Portuguese) stands to her left; Black women also stand along with the group at far left and right. Confetti falls from the air onto a small model of a church building placed on a table with a call … more
Date: unknown
Partner: First Baptist Church of Rockwall

[Postcard of Hotel from the Docks #1]

Description: Postcard of the 7 story Hotel Quintandinah in front of the rolling hills of Brazil. Down the courtyard to the dock on the lake, where four tables are shaded by umbrellas and four more are unshaded. Five tables are being used by patrons while two children play in the water, four adults stand, one rides a bike and another does a handstand.
Date: unknown
Partner: McFaddin-Ward House Museum

Brazil: Provincial Railroads

Description: Map showing provincial railroads in Brazil as of 1876, indicating (with red ink) those already built, in the process of being built, and projected to be built. Includes 2 tables listing location, length, distance from Rio de Janeiro and other statistics of the railroads.
Date: 1876
Creator: Imperial Instituto Artístico (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Air Intelligence Training Bulletin, Volume 16, Number 1, January-June 1964

Description: Monthly publication of the Continental Air Command containing articles of interest to intelligence officers in the Air Force Reserve. This issue includes articles on Rumania, China, Brazil, Asian Economies, The Colombo Plan, and the Soviet army.
Date: January 1964
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces. Air Defense Command.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Carte du Pérou et Brésil sepl. de Tierre - Firme, de Guayana, et de la rivière des Amazones : ce qui fait la partie boréale de L'Amérique Meridiole [South America - Sheet 1].

Description: Map shows the geography and late eighteenth century settlements in the northern half of the South American continent. Includes historical notes. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:6,500,000].
Date: 1779
Creator: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

South America.

Description: Map shows major cities, coastlines, and political divisions including the Republic of Colombia, "Brasil," "Peru or Lima," "United Provinces," Patagonia, Chile, and Bolivia. Inset: "Guatemala or The Republic of Central America." Includes notes. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:14,500,000] and [ca 1:15,000,000].
Date: 1837
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of South America, showing its political divisions.

Description: Map shows South America divided according to mid-nineteenth century political boundaries with major cities and geography highlighted throughout. Inset: "Map showing the proposed Atrato-inter-oceanic canal routes, for connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:30,000,000] and [ca. 1:5,640,000].
Date: 1860
Creator: Williams, W. (Wellington)
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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