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Map of Central America including the states of Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua & Costa Rica, the territories of Belise & Mosquito, with parts of Mexico, Yucatan & New Granada : shewing the routes between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans by way of Tehuantepeque, Nicaragua & Panama.

Description: Map shows Central America geography and place names. Includes five "vertical sections of the proposed canals between Lake Nicaragua & the Pacific Ocean," and notes: "Sections of oceanic routes proposed and completed: Section no. 1, surveyed by Dr. Andres Oersted of Copenhagen for the government of Costa Rica 1848. Section no. 2, surveyed by Colonel Childs for the American Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Comp'y 1850-51. Section no. 3, proposed by ... the Emperor of the French. Section no. 4, sur… more
Date: 1856
Creator: Baily, John, fl. 1811-1850
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[News Script: Hearst & Painting]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Hearst family who have been waiting for an answer from the terrorist group that kidnapped Patricia Hearst. Also, about the municipal government who wouldn't meet a ransom demand for more than 1 million dollars in food in exchange of a stolen Vermeer painting.
Date: February 26, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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