# How The Public Domain Has Been Squandered Full TItle: How the Public Domain Has Been Squandered.

- By: Democratic Party
- Date: 1884
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Cornell University: Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_The_Public_Domain_Has_Been_Squandered_1884_Cornell_CUL_PJM_1088.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/8/88/How_The_Public_Domain_Has_Been_Squandered_1884_Cornell_CUL_PJM_1088.jpg/1920px-How_The_Public_Domain_Has_Been_Squandered_1884_Cornell_CUL_PJM_1088.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Map showing the 139,403,026 acres of the people's land -- equal to 871,268 farms of 160 acres each. Worth a $2 an acre, $278,806,052, given by Republican Congresses to Railroad Corporations. This is more land than is contained in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.