How the Public Domain has Been Squandered

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Title: 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. This is more land than is contained in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
Creator(s): Democratic Party
Date: 1884
Content Type: graphic
Subject(s): Railroads
Land Grants
Election of 1884
Democratic Party
Time Period: 1880-1889
Description: Poster from the 1884 Democratic Party advertising part of the party's platform for the 1884 election pitting Democrat Grover Cleveland against Republican James G. Blaine.
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