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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2088

Chicago Terminal Transfer RR (IL) 1901. #2956. 100 shs. Orange. Justice flanked by trains and track workers in circle. Issued to and signed on the reverse by E.H. Harriman. ABN. VF+. Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909), the "Napoleon of Wall Street," controlled over 60,000 miles of track and more millions of capital than any financial giant of the country during his time. His titanic struggle with James J. Hill over control of the Northern Pacific triggered the May 1901 panic on Wall Street.

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