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Picture Hat

Description: Picture hat of light pink silk taffeta and feathers. The domed crown is totally covered by sprays of off-white ostrich feathers and pale pink veiling. At one side is a metal buckle with rhinestones. The wide brim is wired at outer edge and covered with the same silk. The whole is swathed in veiling which also hangs down to secure below face of wearer. Crown of hat is lined in off-white silk, the brim is lined with the same pink silk.
Date: 1890/1900
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Slippers

Description: Pair of lady's slippers of brown kid leather with jet beading. Designed with pointed toes, the uppers are of brown kid leather, heavily decorated with radiating patterns of jet beads, over toe, around sides and throughout openwork that decorates throat and sides of shoes. Originally had sewn-in ties across the instep. Lined in black leather. Soles of black leather. High heels are of modified French style, sometimes called "spool" style, with rounded sides and back, flaring to base, and with cur… more
Date: 1890/1900
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[Five Men and a Wagon]

Description: Photograph of five men all wearing hats and work clothes. They stand in front of a wagon holding hay and pulled by a mule. The wagon is in front of a barn and a house.
Date: [1890..1900]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Five Men and a Wagon, 2]

Description: Photograph of five men all wearing hats and work clothes. They stand in front of a wagon holding hay and pulled by a mule. The wagon is in front of a barn and a house.
Date: [1890,1900]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Sr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Heeled shoes

Description: Pair of lady's slippers of brown kid leather with jet beading. Designed with pointed toes, the uppers are of brown kid leather, heavily decorated with radiating patterns of jet beads, over toe, around sides and throughout openwork that decorates throat and sides of shoes. Originally had sewn-in ties across the instep. Lined in black leather. Soles of black leather. High heels are of modified French style, sometimes called "spool" style, with rounded sides and back, flaring to base, and wit… more
Date: 1890/1900
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia: ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after the year MDCCC.

Description: Map shows street names, block numbers, select buildings, military fortifications, canals, bridges, and marshland for the District of Columbia. Includes text notes "Observations explanatory of the Plan" and "Breadth of the Streets." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:24,000].
Date: [1890..1900]
Creator: Norris Peters Co.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[The Children of Joe Welch]

Description: Photograph of Lillie, Edgar, and John Welch. Lillie sits in between her brothers on a balustrade in front of a painted backdrop. The boy to the right wears plaid pants and a white shirt, and the boy to the left wears a gown.
Date: [1890..1900]
Creator: E. R. Smith & Bro.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Travis County Clerk Records: Poor Farm Record

Description: List of paupers at the Travis County Poor Farm from 1890-1900. Ledger includes inventory of property belonging to the Travis County Poor Farm; list of paupers; list of hands hired; list of county convicts sent to the Poor Farm to work out fines and costs; supplies purchased; sales made of produce of the Poor Farm; and, total expenditures and receipts. Pauper information includes name, date when first entered the Poor Farm, age, sex, nativity, color, date of discharge and reason for discharge.
Date: 1890/1900
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
Partner: Travis County Clerk’s Office

Hans Nickolas Hansen

Description: Bust portrait postcard of a man identified as Hans Nickolas (Nicole) Hansen. He is in front of a light-colored backdrop wearing a bow tie and suit jacket over a light-colored shirt. Because of a probable mistake in the way the postcard was developed, there is a large black mass that covers the bottom part of the image. On the back, the postcard has been addressed to "Mrs. Gertrude Hansen" at "D & R, El Campo, Texas 77437 63-4330 C."
Date: 1890/1900
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Photograph of Sam and Alma Moore]

Description: Photograph of Alma and Sam Moore. She wears a dress trimmed with lace at the collar and sleeves, and a sash, while he wears a button up coat. They stand in front of a balustrade and a painted backdrop.
Date: [1890..1900]
Creator: E. R. Smith & Bro.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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