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Wrangell Narrows, Alaska. June 6, 1899
This image is from the album of photographs compiled by Albert K. Fisher (1856−1948) to document the Harriman Expedition that explored the coast of Alaska in June and July of 1899. Fisher was an...
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Totems. Wrangell, Alaska
This image is from the album of photographs compiled by Albert K. Fisher (1856−1948) to document the Harriman Expedition that explored the coast of Alaska in June and July of 1899. Fisher was an...
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Inside Passage Steamer Al-Ki. Ketchikan, Alaska. July 29, 1899
This image is from the album of photographs compiled by Albert K. Fisher (1856−1948) to document the Harriman Expedition that explored the coast of Alaska in June and July of 1899. Fisher was an...
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Multnomah Falls on the Columbia River, Oregon
This image is from the album of photographs compiled by Albert K. Fisher (1856−1948) to document the Harriman Expedition that explored the coast of Alaska in June and July of 1899. Fisher was an...
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Looking Down the Canyon of Snake River, Idaho
This image is from the album of photographs compiled by Albert K. Fisher (1856−1948) to document the Harriman Expedition that explored the coast of Alaska in June and July of 1899. Fisher was an...
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Expedition Members in a Sealing Canoe. Yakutat, Alaska
This image is from the album of photographs compiled by Albert K. Fisher (1856−1948) to document the Harriman Expedition that explored the coast of Alaska in June and July of 1899. Fisher was an...
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Gulls on an Iceberg in Glacier Bay, Alaska
This image is from the album of photographs compiled by Albert K. Fisher (1856−1948) to document the Harriman Expedition that explored the coast of Alaska in June and July of 1899. Fisher was an...
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View along Passage East of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
This image is from the album of photographs compiled by Albert K. Fisher (1856−1948) to document the Harriman Expedition that explored the coast of Alaska in June and July of 1899. Fisher was an...
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Eagle Totem at the Deserted Tlingit Village, Cape Fox, Alaska
This image is from the album of photographs compiled by Albert K. Fisher (1856−1948) to document the Harriman Expedition that explored the coast of Alaska in June and July of 1899. Fisher was an...
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Ames Monument at Sherman Summit, Marking the Highest Point of the...
This image is from the album of photographs compiled by Albert K. Fisher (1856−1948) to document the Harriman Expedition that explored the coast of Alaska in June and July of 1899. Fisher was an...
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An Island South of Muir Glacier
This image is from the album of photographs compiled by Albert K. Fisher (1856−1948) to document the Harriman Expedition that explored the coast of Alaska in June and July of 1899. Fisher was an...
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Draft for Payment for the Purchase of Alaska
In 1866 the Russian government offered to sell the territory of Alaska to the United States. Secretary of State William H. Seward, enthusiastic about the prospect of American expansion, negotiated the...
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Certificate of Exchange
On June 20, 1867, U.S. secretary of State William H. Seward and the Russian minister to the United States, Eduard de Stoeckl, exchanged the official instruments of ratification of the Alaska purchase...
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Original of Treaty with Russia for Cession of Alaska
The original treaty for the purchase of Alaska by the United States, written in parallel columns in English and French, is presented here with the signatures of the U.S. secretary of state William H....
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Senate Ratification of the Treaty on Cession of the Territory of Alaska
Under the provisions of the U.S. Constitution relating to treaties, the U.S. Senate is required to give its advice and consent, by a two-thirds vote, for any treaty to be ratified and become law. On...
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French Translation of the Tsar's Ratification of the Alaska Purchase Treaty
The Russian tsar, Alexander II, affixed his signature at the end of this copy of the Alaska purchase treaty following a short commentary on his ratification in Russian. This copy includes a lengthy...
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Tsar's Ratification of the Alaska Purchase Treaty
The original treaty for the purchase of Alaska by the United States from the Russian Empire, written in parallel columns in French and English, is presented here with the signatures of U.S. secretary...
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Treasury Warrant in the Amount of $7.2 Million for the Purchase of Alaska
On the night of March 29−30, 1867, U.S. secretary of State William H. Seward conducted the final negotiations and signed the treaty for the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire with the Russian...
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Syr Darya Oblast. Citadel in Chimkent
This photograph is from the historical part of the Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s....
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Plan of Battle at Uzynagash on the 19th, 20th and 21st of October, 1860
This topographic map of the battle plan used by the Russians fighting the Kokandians at Uzynagash (present-day Uzun-Agach, Kazakhstan) on October 19–21, 1860, is from the historical part of the...
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