This four-part American map, preserved in the collections of the Russian State Library in Moscow, was produced in 1867 at the time of the Alaska Purchase, when the United States acquired Russia's colonial possessions in North America.

Russian colonial possessions in the Americas were collectively known as Russian America (Russian: Русская Америка, romanized: Russkaya Amerika; 1799 to 1867). It consisted mostly of present-day Alaska in the United States, but also included the outpost of Fort Ross in California.

MLA citation style: Lewis, J. F. Map of Russian America or Alaska Territory. [S.l, 1862] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/99446183/>.

This map, compiled by a draftsman named J.F. Lewis, was based upon Russian charts and surveys mostly commissioned by the Russian Navy. It represented one of the earliest attempts in North America to create an English-language map of Alaska.

Download Image of Map of Russian America or Alaska Territory.. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.. Dated: 01.01.1862.

2020年1月31日 · Colton's map of the territory of Alaska - (Russian America) ceded by Russia to the United States (13972186306).jpg 2,000 × 1,233; 2.67 MB Map of Chukotka and Alyaska by Daurkin.jpeg 500 × 403; 87 KB

Highly detailed map of Alaska, with excellent detail in the Aleutians and along the coastline, but demonstrating the sparse populations and knowledge of the interior. Still notes Russian Villages and other early features. Includes Soundings in the Behring Sea. From one of the leading American map publishers of the 1870s and '80s.

Map of the Territory of Alaska (Russian America) Ceded by Russia to the United States.

An appealing Italian map of Alaska, northwest Canada, and the Bering Strait produced by Francesco Marmocchi for his 1858 work Il Globo Atlante di Carte Geografiche. It depicts 'Russian America' in its final days, when the Tsarist government began considering proposals to …

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