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Description Alaska Purchase (hi-res).jpg |
English:
With this check, the
United States
completed the purchase of almost 600,000 square miles of land from the
Russian Government
. This treasury warrant issued on August 1, 1868, at the Sub-Treasury Building at 26 Wall Street, New York, New York, transferred $7.2 million to Russian Minister to the United States
Edouard de Stoeckl
. The purchase price of the 49th state? Less than two cents an acre. Original located in the
National Archives
, Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of Treasury.
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Source | http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=41 | |||||||
Author | Edouard de Stoeckl and William H. Seward | |||||||
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