Photographs in the Footsteps of My Ancestors
By Boat to Galveston Along the Brazos The Dangerous Texas General Land Office Home Beyond
  1. Peter Carl
  2. William
  3. Ernst
  4. The Elissa
  5. The Elissa
  6. The Elissa from the pier
  7. glad to be on solid ground after so long a sea journey
  8. a breather before the ride to the Brazos
  9. Galveston Island across San Luis Pass
  10. NOAA Office of Coast Survey (OCS) chart of San Luis Island 1853
  11. NOAA OCS chart from Bolivar Point to Brazos River 1857 (scroll image all the way right and follow back to the left)
  12. full size NOAA OCS charts
    keywordregionyear
    San Luis PassTexas1853
    Galveston EntranceTexas1853 and 1856
    Sea CoastTexas1857
    Entrance to Brazos RiverTexas1858
  1. at the mouth of the Brazos
  2. The Brazos at Brazoria
  3. The Brazos at Rosenberg
  4. some von Rosenbergs at The Brazos in Rosenberg
  5. a little vandalism near The Brazos
  6. The Brazos at San Felipe
  7. San Felipe
  1. Ouch!
  2. a Petri watercolor of an Indian
  3. a Petri sketch of Max Lungkwitz
  4. more about Petri here
  1. the historic General Land Office Building housed the Land Office from 1857 to 1917
  2. cartographers hanging out
  3. William's map of Walker County, August 1858
  4. Ernst's map of Llano County, December 1877
  5. General Land Office employees (O. Henry in blue shirt, Ernst vR. at left)
  6. the J. Earl Rudder building where the Land Office resided from 1918 to 1962
  7. another view
  8. more maps, my two vR. uncles, and a brother
  9. The von Rosenberg-Heintze Company in La Grange
  1. original family coat of arms
  2. second family coat of arms
  3. Eckitten Estate near Memel in East Prussia sketch by William
  4. the site of the first home at Nassau plantation
  5. Ma and Pa vR. at the vR. house at Henkel Square in Round Top
  6. kitchen in the vR. house at Henkel Square in Round Top (bottom left)
  7. some vR.'s patroling their turf
  8. enjoying the cool of the late afternoon in the yard
  9. the first live oak in the family?
  10. the tree behind Dad's childhood home
  11. the boys all grown up
  12. my generation
  13. lion rampant regardant
  1. Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg, Oct 2, 1794 - Oct 19, 1866, A Soldier of Waterloo, A Pioneer of Texas
  2. looking back towards Texas across the Atchafalaya as we go our separate ways

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