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
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.
- Date
- 1884
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Rand Mcnally And Company
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 4,954 × 6,646 pixels
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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" (1884). Rand Mcnally And Company. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_the_public_domain_has_been_squandered,_map_showing_the_139,403,026_acres_of_the_people%27s_land_-_equal_to_871,268_farms_of_160_acres_each,_worth_at_$2_an_acre,_$278,806,052,_given_by_Republican_LOC_2006627679.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 13806.
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