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Lot 121

[RAILROAD LAND SALES]. A group of 8 identical broadsides ad...

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[RAILROAD LAND SALES]. A group of 8 identical broadsides advertising ?Cheap Railroad Lands? in Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Minnesota and South Dakota. Fond Du Lac: P. B. Haber Printing House, [n.d., ca. 1850s - 1870s]. Oblong 4to paper (approximately 609 mm x 228 mm). Broadsides on white paper, printed on verso and recto in black and red (brittle paper toned, creased, soiled, chipped, worn, with tears). All 8 broadsides attached at top with a (contemporary?) string loop. These broadsides advertise: ?Cheap Railroad Lands of Wisconsin and Northern Michigan Over Half a Million Acres of Grand Forests? Large Quantities of Cleared Lands? (and, on verso:) ?Cheap Railroad Lands of Minnesota and South Dakota - The Great - Wheat Corn and Cattle Country? Only 100,000 Acres Left?? at the bottom of each broadside are land agents listed in Fond du Lac, WI, Marshall, MN, Escanaba, Mich [sic] and Chicago, IL.