From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
Remainder of title: and recommending an appropriation for the payment for the territory ceded to the United States, and legislation for the occupation and government of the same. At head of title: 40th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex.Doc....
Mathematic map data: Scale ca. 1:12,672,000 Publication info: [Washington? D.C.] : U.S.C.S. Dept., 1880. Physical descrip: 1 map : col. ; on sheet 31 x 39 cm. General Note: "Entered according to act of Congress in the year...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska...
Descriptive Narrative: Double-headed eagle plaque of cast bronze. Crowns on each eagle head, symbols of power held in the talons; on eagle's breast is octagon shape with figure of St George. One wing tip is missing.
Exhibition: object traveled...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Ancillary map: Diagram of the Middle States; [North America]. "Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1867 by G. W. & C. B. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Inset: Diagram of the middle states. Ancillary map: [North and Central America]. Includes isothermal lines. "Isothermal lines by Lorin Blodgett." Nos. 17 & 18 from Colton's...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Insets: [North America showing Alaska's location in relation to the United States] -- Diagram of the Middle States. Text on verso: "Province of Canada, no. 1. Alaska, late...
Relief shown by hachures. No. 18. Text on verso: The Province of Canada - No. I. In color. Provisional date in LC classification number is too early; details indicate map was published after 1867.
Title from accompanying material. A woman leans her elbow against the inside of a door frame. At left is a draped bookshelf; at right, a wooden chair below a map of North America reading "Ceded by Mexico in [1848]".