Alaska Purchase check - photo

[Altair]

US $7.2 million check used to pay for Alaska. Issued on August 1, 1868 and worth around $140 million today.




Previously:

Alaska airlifts Into the Wild bus - photo
Arctic convoy to the DEW Line with giant Mack trucks
1957 Chevrolet "Champs of the Alcan Run"

[mklotz]

Typo - The check was for $7.2 million, not .2 as indicated.

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-d...hase-of-alaska

[Altair]

Thank you, Marv. The system interprets the dollar sign as a part of the code every time at the beginning of a string.

[IntheGroove]

Doesn't seem folly to me...

[mansworld]

$12 million paid for California, and $5 million for Florida. But the weirdest deal of them all was paying France $15 million to acquire 2 million kilometers of land. This area today covers 15 States with Louisiana on top.

[Toolmaker51]

And the Platte Purchase, Northwest lands of Missouri along the Missouri River, settled in Treaty of Chicago. https://www.potawatomiheritage.com/e...hase-missouri/
I drive through it almost every day, there is history here, wall to wall..