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Our Documents: Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868)

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Interactive images of two documents important in Alaska's history: the check written for its 1868 purchase from Russia and the Russian Treaty of Cession (an English transcript is provided), which concluded the deal.

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alaska purchase, nara, national archives, national archives and records administration, our documents, purchase of alaska, seward’s folly, seward’s icebox, william h. seward, william henry seward, expanding the frontier, settling the frontier
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)