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How The Public Domain Has Been Squandered Full 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 a $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.

Date
1884
Mapmaker / publisher
Democratic Party
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
6,600 × 9,300 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-70-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"How The Public Domain Has Been Squandered Full TItle: How the Public Domain Has Been Squandered." (1884). Democratic Party, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_The_Public_Domain_Has_Been_Squandered_1884_Cornell_CUL_PJM_1088.jpg

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