Texas Land and Immigration Company Broadsides, Maps, and More

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• Lot Description

  Lot of 23. A Collection of Texas immigration ads, many with the purple advertising stamps of Henry W. Hannan (1844-1879) of Swan Creek, OH, agent with the Texas Land and Immigration Company. The lot is comprised of many railroad brochures, some with early Texas maps, most showing the rail lines. Highlights include:

  Banking, Law, Land and Collection Office of Stewart & Habight, Austin, Texas (Law firm specializing in land and banking), verso with map of Texas. No dates, but probably last quarter 19th century, as the other information in this lot dates between 1876-1878.

  Wanted Mortgaged Property! I desire to purchase the equities in some choice pieces of improved and unimproved….property. Also desire to purchase the rights of Parties who have Contracts with any Railroad Company for Lands…Soldiers’ Additional homesteads Bought and Sold…” D.H. Talbot, General Land, Scrip and Warrant Broker, Sioux City, IA. July 1, 1878. 9.5 x 12.25 in.

  The Texas Landmark. Notes on Northwest Texas, presented by Henry H. Hannan, Texas Land Locator, and Land and Emigration Agent. Dealer in Texas Land Script, Script Lands, and Patented Lands, Agent for Railroad Lands in Texas and Arkansas. Swan Creek, Ohio. Folded 8.25 x 10.5 sheet; with Hannan’s purple stamp.

  Texas Lands! Special Bargains! By Henry H. Hannan, Land and Emigration Agent, Swan Creek, Ohio. 2 copies. Folded 8.25 x 10.5 sheet (four-page pamphlet) with Hannan’s purple stamp.

  Homes in Texas on the Line of the International & Gt. Northern Railroad and How to Reach Them. 21 x 25 in. broadside/newspaper. Verso with map of Texas showing the railroad line into the eastern part of the state. Map surrounded by various ads, such as “Texas Wants One Million of Emigrants Annually for 20 Years to cultivate her Lands, to develop her Mineral Resources, to Manufacture her Raw Material, and to make her what she is destined to be, the Great Empire State of the Union, and the International & Great Northern R.R. Co. wants one-half of these emigrants…” with Hannan’s and others’ purple stamps.

  To Exchange. Have a fine lot of lands in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, and other States and Territories to sell or exchange… D.H. Talbot, General Land, Scrip and Warrant Broker, Sioux City, IA. July 1, 1878.

  ALS, October 2, 1877, re: three plots of land, with sketch map of the plots in the top margin of the letter. Signed Henry Hannan. 7.75 x 12.5 in.

  Pamphlet, 3.5 x 6 in., gilt printed wraps, 1877, 8pp. Cover title: Texas Land and Immigration Company. Its Organization, Articles and Purposes of Association, Certificate of Corporate Existence, Endorsement of the State of Texas and By-Laws. With Hannan’s purple stamp.

  Brochure, 12.5 x 15.75 in. green paper. One side printed with map of Texas, state and Indian Territory colored, county boundaries marked and outlined. Folds into 3 x 6 brochure, printed in red and black. (2 copies – one with scorched area lower right.) Both with Hannan’s purple stamp.

  Broadside/newspaper, 16 x 19.75 in. Recto with Texas Lands! The Empire State of the South. Includes railroad routes and rates. Verso with map of east Texas, Louisiana, and surrounding areas. “A Geographically Correct County Map of States Traversed by the St Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway and its Connections.” With Hannan’s purple stamp.

  Broadside, 7 x 12 in.Texas Colony Excursion Leaving Rushsylvania, Ohio, Oct. 14^th….Under the Auspices of H.S. Hyatt, Esq., Editor of the “Texas Products and Progress,” Dallas Texas. (2 copies)

  Newspaper, “Texas Products and Progress,” H.S. Hyatt, ed. Dallas, Texas: October 1878. 10 x 13.5 in., 16pp. With small “Apology” affixed to front page: “We feel it a duty to apologize for the many egregious errors that appear in this number of the Progress, by saying that it was issued during the Editor’s absence, who cannot vouch for the condition of either proof reader or pressman.”  Henry Hannan’s purple stamp.

  The Texas Bureau of Immigration. Notice, 8 x 10 in., Texas Land and Immigration Company, St. Louis, MO. “An impression may have obtained in the country that, because the late Constitutional Convention annulled the Bureau of immigration, the people of Texas were indifferent regarding any further immigration into the State. This is a great mistake, as will be manifest by the recent action of the Legislature, inviting the good and industrious immigrant from all lands, through the channel especially opened by the TEXAS LAND AND IMMIGRATION CO….” With Hannan’s purple stamp. (3 copies)

  Refer to cowans.com for further information regarding the contents of the lot. 

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  Rates of Fare to Arkansas and Texas Points, via St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway and Connections. In effect Sept. 1st, 1878, subject to Changes. On green 8.5 x 20 in. sheet, with Henry Hannan’s Swan Creek, OH purple stamp at top.

  Brochure, 23.25 x 34 in. folded into 4.5 x 8 in. brochure. “GO TO TEXAS by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, Texas & Pacific and International & Great Northern Railroads.” One side with map.  Rodent damage in upper right corner (as folded) that affects map and text.

  Newspaper/circular, “Homes in Texas. The Texas Land Company. Incorporated by Special Act of the Legislature of the State of Texas, August, 1870." 21 x 28 in. on blue-green paper stock, 2pp. With Hannan’s purple stamp.

  Brochure, The Texas and Pacific Railway. The Shortest Line to the Great Cotton Grain and Stock Regions of Texas. Folded 20 x 21 in. sheet. Verso with Texas map (“Published by the Texas & Pacific Railway Company.” Sept. 1, 1876.)

  Texas! Special Bargains! With Henry Hannan, Land Agent, Swan Creek, OH purple stamp. One side only, 8 x 11 in.

  Newspaper/circular, “Notes on Northern Texas; a Circular Issued by the Land Department of the Texas & Pacific Railway in the Interest of Immigration." Marshall, TX, September, 1877. 14 x 21.25 in., 4pp.

  Condition

  Most good or better. A few have scorches or rodent nibbling. Most have light toning.
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