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Alaska Purchase: Media

Russia-United States [1867]

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Alaska Treaty of Cessation
The signing of the Alaska Treaty of Cessation on March 30, 1867.
Alaska State Library, Alaska Purchase Centennial Commission Photograph Collection (Image Number: ASL P20-181)
map of Alaska
Alaska.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
William H. Seward
William H. Seward, photographby Mathew Brady.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Alaska Purchase
The U.S. check issued in the amount of $7.2 million to buy Alaska.
World Digital Library Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (57026883)