Print comments on the issue of the annexation of Texas by the United States in the 1844 U.S. Presidential election. President Tyler is depicted uncomfortably astride a Democratic "Tex-ass" with Democratic candidate James Polk who has annoyed Tyler by ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
H.R. Robinson, 142 Nassau Street, E.W.C. (signed on stone, E. Clay)
Subject (Geographic):
United States, United States., Texas, and Texas.
Subject (Name):
Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Tyler, John, 1790-1862, Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845, Equal Rights Party (N.Y.), Equal Rights Party (New York, N.Y.), Whig Party (U.S.), and Democratic Party (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Presidents, Election, Caricatures and cartoons, History, Animals, Symbolic aspects, Public buildings, and Annexation to the United States
Subject: Image of the French colony of Aigleville, Texas, now part of Alabama. Men, women and children are gathered outside, all seen wearing French clothing or military uniforms. At center, a man in uniform stands under a tree with a sign reading "Ai...
Description:
Advertised as published by Basset in April, 1820 in Recueil des actes administratifs, Volume 20, Tours, 1820, p. 190. Erroneously dated 1830 by Library of Congress.
Publisher:
A Paris chez Basset rue St. Jacques no. 64. Déposé au bureau
Subject: View of the French settlement of Aigleville, Texas, now part of Alabama. At center a young woman sits on a log holding a baby, while at right center, a man steps over the log to embrace a young man. At left, a man is seen taking letters out o...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +117: Imperfect: damp-stained. Hand-colored.
Publisher:
A Paris chez Basset rue St. Jacques no. 64. Déposé au bureau
Subject: Central figure on horseback, Major Samuel Ringgold, falls backward with saber falling from hand; horseman, right, turns toward him, as do other soldiers in distance; horseman, left and behind, holds up hand; with fallen soldier, foreground
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Virtue & Co. Publishers
Subject (Geographic):
Texas.
Subject (Name):
Ringgold, Samuel, 1796-1846 and Ringgold, Samuel, 1796-1846.
Subject (Topic):
Palo Alto, Battle of, Tex., 1846, Campaigns and battles, Mexican War, 1846-1848, American, Soldiers, and Horses
Portrays, imaginatively, an event in the Texas war of independence: the surrender of Mexican commander Santa Anna and his brother-in-law, General Martin Perfecto de Cos, to American leader Samuel Houston after the Battle of San Jacinto in late April 1...
Alternative Title:
General Houston, Santa Anna and Cos
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +188: On sheet 36 x 52 cm. Hand colored.
Publisher:
Published June, 1836 by the proprietor, H.R. Robinson, 48 Courtlandt Street, New York
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, United States, Mexico., and United States.
Subject (Name):
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863, Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876, Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854, Cos, Martín Perfecto de, 1800-1854., and Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.
Subject (Topic):
San Jacinto, Battle of, Tex., 1836, History, Campaign, Foreign relations, and Diplomatic relations
Print repeats three images of a trout, one below the other, with a line of the title text (divided into three lines) below each image; fish face left. Text in red ink
Description:
"Designed by Whitehead & Whitehead and printed on Fabriano paper in an edition of 800 copies by W. Thomas Taylor as the Book Club of Texas annual broadside for 1989."
Publisher:
Book Club of Texas
Subject (Geographic):
Texas.
Subject (Topic):
Fishing, Trout fishing, Broadsides, and Linoleum block printing, American
Print satirizes the United States politics; on left, a barrel labeled "White House gruel" guarded by an aproned man; a boy asks "Please, boss, I want some more."; a banner reading "annexation veto" hangs from his coat-tails; to right in background, a ...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +152: Handwritten on recto below image: 1844.
Publisher:
printed & published by E. Jones
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Texas
Subject (Topic):
Presidents, Election, and Annexation to the United States
Collection of approximately 76 drawings and sketches made by Brown in watercolor, oil, pastel, wash, pencil and ink. Thirty-one drawings depict army forts and western scenery, including Ringgold Barracks, Los Morus, Port Isabel, and San Jose, Texas; F...
Description:
Brown, an army surgeon and self-taught artist, served at several military posts in Texas and the Pacific Northwest in the 1850s. During the Civil War he served with the Army of the Potomac and in the Assistant Surgeon General's office in Louisville.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., Texas., Washington (State), Texas, Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.), Fort Dalles (Dalles, Or.), Fort Naches (Or.), Fort Ringgold (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Hood, Mount (Or.), Oregon, Port Isabel (Tex.), and Washington
Subject (Name):
Brown, Joseph B., 1822-1891., Lee, Robert E. 1807-1870. (Robert Edward),, and United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, Missions, Spanish, Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865, Military life, Voyages to the Pacific coast, and Description and travel
Collection of approximately 76 drawings and sketches made by Brown in watercolor, oil, pastel, wash, pencil and ink. Thirty-one drawings depict army forts and western scenery, including Ringgold Barracks, Los Morus, Port Isabel, and San Jose, Texas; F...
Description:
Brown, an army surgeon and self-taught artist, served at several military posts in Texas and the Pacific Northwest in the 1850s. During the Civil War he served with the Army of the Potomac and in the Assistant Surgeon General's office in Louisville.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., Texas., Washington (State), Texas, Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.), Fort Dalles (Dalles, Or.), Fort Naches (Or.), Fort Ringgold (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Hood, Mount (Or.), Oregon, Port Isabel (Tex.), and Washington
Subject (Name):
Brown, Joseph B., 1822-1891., Lee, Robert E. 1807-1870. (Robert Edward),, and United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, Missions, Spanish, Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865, Military life, Voyages to the Pacific coast, and Description and travel
