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(RAILROADS.) An Act to Incorporate the Galena and Chicago Union Rail Road Company: Approved January 16, 1836.
THE FIRST CHICAGO RAILROAD (RAILROADS.) An Act to Incorporate the Galena and Chicago Union Rail Road Company: Approved January 16, 1836. 8 pages. 8vo, unbound in 2 loose sheets, with original pin; minor foxing and staining, creased, crudely trimmed to 197 mm. Chicago: T.O. Davis, [1836?]
- Notes: The act of incorporation for Chicago's first railroad; construction did not begin until 1848. Also one of the first pamphlets published in Chicago. Until now, the Streeter copy and one at the Abraham Lincoln Library have been the only two known. Byrd 267, Streeter sale III:1458.
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