Image of a broadside promoting the sale of land by the Winona & St. Peter Railroad Company with a wood-engraved image of a yellow bundle of wheat in the upper center. Probable date based on railroad history; Charles E. Simmon was appointed land commissioner in 1878. "Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co., printer.s, Chicago."--text, bottom center margin. "Land office of the company at Marshall, Lyon Co., Minnesota. / Chas. E. Simmons, Land Commissioner, / H. M. Burchard, Land Agent, / P.G. Peterson, Agent, ..."--text, lower center of poster.
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image
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1 letterpress : color printed ; overall 55.88 x 35.88 cm (22 x 14 1/8 in.)
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