Image Credits

Credits For All Images

Difficult Journeys Section



Background Image

Image: Port of Galveston, ca. 1845.
Credit: Library of Congress, LC–USZ61–293, Washington, DC.


Small Icons

  1. Image: German immigrants in a wagon on their way to New Braunfels, Texas, 1844.
    Credit: UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures, 068–0679, San Antonio.
  2. Image: Packet ship leaving Liverpool.
    Credit: UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures, 079–360, San Antonio.
  3. Image: Sailing Ship Herschel, ca. 1845.
    Credit: UTSA’s Institue of Texan Cultures, 073–0742, San Antonio. Courtesy of Gillespie County Historical Society.
  4. Image: Slave Auction.
    Credit: : UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures, 073–1319, San Antonio.
  5. Image: Plains Indian Ledger Drawing.
    Credit: Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, TMM–1988–19.


Exhibit Windows

  1. Introduction
    • Image: German immigrants in a wagon on their way to New Braunfels, Texas, 1844.
      Credit: UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures, 068–0679, San Antonio.
    • Image: Wedding linen sack “Live Well in Texas,” ca 1844.
      Credit: New Braunfels Conservation Society, New Braunfels.
    • Image: Classified Ads in the Galveston Tri–Weekly News, June 20, 1855.
      Credit: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
  2. Deciding To Leave
    • Image: Packet ship leaving Liverpool.
      Credit: UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures, 079–0360, San Antonio.
    • Image: Woodworking Tools of Johann Jahn.
      Credit: New Braunfels Conservation Society, New Braunfels.
    • Image: Drozd Family Bible, ca. 1765.
      Credit: Czech Heritage Museum and Genealogy Center, Temple.
    • Image: Das star-spangled banner.
      Credit: Library of Congress Rare Book Collection, Washington, DC.
    • Image: Ax head, ca. 1850s.
      Credit: Winedale Historical Complex, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
  3. Dangers Along the Way
    • Image: Sailing Ship Herschel, ca. 1845.
      Credit: UTSA’s Institue of Texan Cultures, 073-0742, San Antonio. Courtesy of Gillespie County Historical Society.
    • Image: Scrimshawed tusk, ca. 1850.
      Credit: Sophienburg Museum, New Braunfels.
    • Image: Wooden lemon squeezer.
      Credit: Sophienburg Museum, New Braunfels.
    • Image: Slave shackles
      Credit: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
    • Image: Toepperwein family rifle, ca. 1850.
      Credit: Witte Museum, San Antonio.
    • Image: Burial at Sea, Engraving in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, September 16, 1882.
      Credit: Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn.
  4. Forced to Come
    • Image: Slave Auction.
      Credit: UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures, 073–1319, San Antonio.
    • Image: Slave manifest from S. S. Texas, ca. 1861.
      Credit: The Rosenberg Library, Galveston.
    • Image: Quilt made by Florida Lewis, ca. 1860s.
      Credit: Acheera and Sharon Munoz, Teague.
  5. Conflict Upon Arrival
    • Image: Plains Indian Ledger Drawing.
      Credit: Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, TMM–1988–19.
    • Image: Treaty between the Comanche and German Settlers of San Saba County, March 1–2, 1847.
      Credit: Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Austin.
    • Image: Carlos de la Garza’s land grant, October 28, 1834.
      Credit: Texas General Land Office, Archives and Records Division, Austin.