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New 7-30 gold loan of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co : secured by first mortgage on railroad and land grant, (1870)

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Title New 7-30 gold loan of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co : secured by first mortgage on railroad and land grant, (1870)
Identifier http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu204 WSU 204; HE2791.N855 C6 187-? http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,376
Creator Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Date 1870 2000 - 2002
Description 1 broadside : map (on verso) ; 44 x 26 cm. View map: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu203 This page is drawn from an advertisement by the Northern Pacific for the sale of bonds to finance the construction of its transcontinental route. After beginning their fundraising efforts in the summer of 1870, approximately thirty million dollars in bonds had been sold by the end of 1871, which at the time seemed, wrongly, as it turned out, enough to allow for an early completion of...
Subject Railroads -- Finance; Railroads -- Maps; Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Type Maps
Coverage United States
Rights Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691
Format Original maps were scanned in color at 600 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.4 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries. image/jpeg
Contributor Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Language English
Relation Is part of New 7-30 gold loan of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co : secured by first mortgage on railroad and land grant.

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