(NEBRASKA) To the People of Nebraska Fellow Citizens The Ge

Sale 1946 - Lot 235

Price Realized: $ 2,300

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

STREETER'S COPY OF A RARE NEBRASKA TERRITORY BROADSIDE (NEBRASKA.) To the People of Nebraska. Fellow Citizens:--The General Assembly of Nebraska Territory are no longer able to discharge their legitimate functions at the Omaha seat of Government.<> Signed in print by Speaker of the House James H. Decker and 31 members of the House of Representatives and the Council. Broadside, 350x180 mm; minor even browning; Streeter's copy with his booklabel on verso with resulting staining on recto. [Florence?], 1858

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"In the fight over the location of the permanent capitol of Nebraska, a majority of the Territorial Legislature left the temporary capitol at Omaha and set themselves up in Florence, where they stayed for forty days. This was a protest against the actions of the minority who favored Omaha as the location for a permanent capitol"--Graff 2960; Streeter Sale IV:2010 [this copy]. No copy of this broadside has come to auction since the Streeter copy; OCLC locates only the Graff copy.<