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Articles from the Texas General Land Office Save Texas History Program
Former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar Chase Untermeyer Donates Maps to the GLO Archives
Former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar Chase Untermeyer Donates Maps to the GLO Archives
The GLO is pleased to accept eight maps of Texas and Mexico from Chase Untermeyer, a U.S. Navy veteran and former Texas State…
Ephemeral Art: The Nineteenth Century Letterhead Collection at the GLO
Ephemeral Art: The Nineteenth Century Letterhead Collection at the GLO
In 2022, the Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas conducted a session at the Society of Southwest Archivists annual…
Exploring Cartographic Frontiers at the 2024 Save Texas History Symposium
Exploring Cartographic Frontiers at the 2024 Save Texas History Symposium
The Texas General Land Office is excited to announce its fourteenth Save Texas History Symposium, scheduled to take place from September…
A Day at the Beach (and Archives)
A Day at the Beach (and Archives)
The possibilities promised by the Texas coast have always captured the imagination. Its earliest inhabitants included Indigenous people…
Oliver Loving: The Dean of Texas Trail Drivers
Oliver Loving: The Dean of Texas Trail Drivers
Born in Kentucky but best known in Texas, Oliver Loving (1812–1867) was a pioneering cowboy who blazed the Goodnight-Loving Trail alongside…
Returning Texas History to Texas — Donating the Bull Family Collection
Returning Texas History to Texas — Donating the Bull Family Collection
By Sylvia Smith Talkington, guest contributor
Trace d’une partie Chemin de Fer de Galveston à Houston et Henderson, Texas, Etats unis d’Amérique…
Trace d’une partie Chemin de Fer de Galveston à Houston et Henderson, Texas, Etats unis d’Amérique…
[Trace of a part of the Galveston Railway in Houston and Henderson, Texas, United States of America]
Charting Matagorda Island’s Military History in the GLO Archives
Charting Matagorda Island’s Military History in the GLO Archives
Calhoun County Rolled Sketch 11
Preserving the Ephemeral at the GLO — Digitizing the John and Diana Cobb Map Collection
Preserving the Ephemeral at the GLO — Digitizing the John and Diana Cobb Map Collection
As part of the General Land Office’s (GLO) mission to preserve Texas history for future generations and make accessible the historical…