The Role of the Smithsonian Institution in the Purchase of Alaska
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PrintThis twenty-five page term paper is based on some thirty published articles and books, as well as on original documents in the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Glattfelder details how Senator Charles Sumner's influential congressional speech in favor of the purchase of Alaska relied upon information and assistance provided by the Smithsonian. Smithsonian Assistant Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird had sent scientists, notably William Healey Dall, to accompany the Russian American Telegraph Expedition of 1865-1867, and collection specimens and observations of the region for the Smithsonian.
Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography
Term paper, Washington College
(Book)
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1972
Scientific expeditions
Alaska