ournal. it's by mary austin holly who is the niece of steven f. austin. and when she travels to texas, this is printed in 1836 and there is a beautiful map. it's small. it's a foldout map. but it's a map of the state of coahuila and texas and you can see what you would say austin's colony and the others that are laid out. the coloration on this map it's hand done. it wouldn't have been printed this way. the paper is in relatively good shape. there's some foxing. but you're seeing now in 1836, about this time period, mexico, it's moved from the wing dom of spain to now mexico as a nation and mexico owns texas at that time. but this map is really quite

nice. the other thing that's interesting about it is that mary austin holley, she's -- she's a widow, the niece of stephen f. austin. and for her to come here and to write about her travels is significant. to have a female voice at that time period it's incredible. so i do think, and if i recall correctly from some of the things that i've read, austin's map -- steven f. austin's map, there's some influence in this particular map but i think it's a great progression to show from the 1816 map on into this map from 1836. the next map i'd like to show you is a colton map. this is really during the republic time period.

it's dated 1839 and you can see the different counties that have been set up certainly they are not the way they are today. again, this would have been hand colored well after the map would have been printed. it's by the general land off of the republic of texas. and it shows this progression of 1836. and then you really begin to see more dealing with the republic of texas time period. and, of course, that really lasts until 1845. next, i think what i pulled for you to take a look at was some early postcards of the waco suspension bridge. it was actually opened in 1870. and the suspension bridge was actualliability -- actually built before the brooklyn

bridge. it actually changed waco. after the civil war waco was a relatively small town. it's in the center of state. but getting across the river was difficult. if the water was high, you certainly couldn't cross it. the only way you could get across it was with a small barge , so you had to be ferried across from one side and then ferried across to the other side. so it impeded commerce from north texas to south texas. so once it was opened up, it began to change and waco began to grow. so it changed waco. it began to change the north-south route for texas as well. not long after the bridge, then the railroad comes to texas as well. i want to show you the archive of leon jaworski. it is one of our fascinating manuscript collections that we have. leon jaworski, for those who

don't know the name or are a little bit younger than i am, he was born here in waco, about 1905, and he lives until 1982. he went to school here in waco, public school. and then he came here to baylor, graduated, undergrad degree, and then he went on to law school here at baylor. later on he gets a degree from george washington university another law degree. what he's best known for is three areas. first is prosecuting war criminals primarilily nazi. second, he was part of the warren commission which investigated the assassination of john f. kennedy. and, third, he was the primary prosecutor against richard nixon and in effect brings down the white house. so to have a lifespan, a work lifespan of that