todaysdocument: Happy Alaska Day & Moby-Dick Day Color post card. “Eskimo in skin Omiak in pursuit of walrus. Caught in the act of throwing the harpoon, Alaska.” from the Sir Henry Wellcome Collection, Photographs of the inhabitants of Metlakatla, British Columbia and Metlakatla, Alaska, ca. 1856 - 1936. On October 18, 1867, the United States officially took possession of the territory of Alaksa, having agreed to purchase it from Russia for 7.2 Million Dollars. A few years earlier on October 18, 1851, Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale was first published in London.

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Happy Alaska Day & Moby-Dick Day

Color post card. “Eskimo in skin Omiak in pursuit of walrus. Caught in the act of throwing the harpoon, Alaska.”

from the Sir Henry Wellcome Collection, Photographs of the inhabitants of Metlakatla, British Columbia and Metlakatla, Alaska, ca. 1856 - 1936.

On October 18, 1867, the United States officially took possession of the territory of Alaksa, having agreed to purchase it from Russia for 7.2 Million Dollars.

A few years earlier on October 18, 1851, Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale was first published in London.

Source: research.archives.gov
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