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Photographer: Emanuel Leutze / Public domain
Taken: 1867
Caption: Marker detail (original): Painting depicting sale of Alaska
Additional Description: This idealized and historically inaccurate depiction of Russia's sale of Alaska to the United States shows (left to right): Robert S. Chew, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward, William Hunter, Waldemar Bodisco; Russian Ambassador Baron de Stoeckl, Charles Sumner, and Fredrick W. Seward. Chew was Seward's chief clerk; Hunter was Assistant U.S. Secretary of State; Bodisco was Russian chargé d'affaires; Sumner was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Fredrick Seward was William Seward's son and an Assistant U.S. Secretary of State.
Submitted: September 8, 2021, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p608938
File Size: 0.131 Megabytes

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