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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. 14th….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.