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Map How the public domain has been squandered, map showing the 139,403,026 acres of the people's land - equal to 871,268 farms of 160 acres each, worth at $2 an acre, $278,806,052, given by Republican Congresses to railroad corporations

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  • How the public domain has been squandered, map showing the 139,403,026 acres of the people's land - equal to 871,268 farms of 160 acres each, worth at $2 an acre, $278,806,052, given by Republican Congresses to railroad corporations

Names

  • Rand McNally and Company.

Created / Published

  • Chicago : Rand McNally and Company, 1884.

Headings

  • -  Transportation--United States--Maps
  • -  United States

Notes

  • -  On sheet below map "We believe that the public lands ought, as far as possible, to be kept as homesteads for actual settlers; that all unearned lands heretofore improvidently granted to railroad corporations by the action of the Republican party should be restored to the public domain; and that no more grants of land shall be made to corporations, or be allowed to fall into the ownership of alien absentees. Democratic platform, 1884."
  • -  Exhibition: Maps for an Emerging Nation: Commercial Cartography in Nineteenth-century America, Aug. 8-Oct. 20, 1977 .

Medium

  • 1 map ; 29 x 39 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3701.P1 1884 .R3

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2006627679

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  • image

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Rand Mcnally And Company. How the public domain has been squandered, map showing the 139,403,026 acres of the people's land - equal to 871,268 farms of 160 acres each, worth at $2 an acre, $278,806,052, given by Republican Congresses to railroad corporations. Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, 1884. Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2006627679/.

APA citation style:

Rand Mcnally And Company. (1884) How the public domain has been squandered, map showing the 139,403,026 acres of the people's land - equal to 871,268 farms of 160 acres each, worth at $2 an acre, $278,806,052, given by Republican Congresses to railroad corporations. Chicago: Rand McNally and Company. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2006627679/.

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Rand Mcnally And Company. How the public domain has been squandered, map showing the 139,403,026 acres of the people's land - equal to 871,268 farms of 160 acres each, worth at $2 an acre, $278,806,052, given by Republican Congresses to railroad corporations. Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, 1884. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2006627679/>.