Lithograph Bond for The California Eastern Extension Rail Road Company

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Sale 400: Americana - Hawaiiana - Africana - Travel & Exploration - Natural History (#400) 03/26/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #23Lithograph Bond for The California Eastern Extension Rail Road Company

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Sale 400: Americana - Hawaiiana - Africana - Travel & Exploration - Natural History (#400) 03/26/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Description

Heading:

(California - Railroad)

Title:

Lithograph Bond for The California Eastern Extension Rail Road Company

Author:

**

Place Published:

San Franicisco

Publisher:

Britton & Co.

Date Published:

1859

Description:

Lithograph bond with several vignette illustrations. Overall 20¾x15¾.

Bond for the construction of a railroad "from a point on the California Central Rail-Road near to Auburn Peavine, on said road, eastwardly to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountians, in the County of Placer..." Signed by J.L. Frank, Secretary and Edward McLean, President. The bottom of the document has 39 remaining payment coupons, the first coupon, (number 2) has been removed at the bottom right corner.

Condition:

Horizontal and vertical creasing, a few small holes at intersections of folds; near fine.

Item#:

200510

Headline:

California Eastern Extension Rail Road Company
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