1867 Lindenkohl Map of Alaska - first map to name Akaska - $3,520 - (New York, NY)
1867 Lindenkohl Map of Alaska - first map to name Akaska WE SELL ONLY ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAPS - NOT REPRODUCTIONS Title: North Western America showing the territory ceded by Russia to the United States. Description: A seminal production, this is the first map to name Alaska and the first specific published map of Alaska as American territory. Centered on the Bering Strait, the map covers all of Alaska as well as parts of adjacent Russia (as far as the Sea of Okhotsk) and Canada. Offers inland detailed, especially along the coasts, as well as topography and a breakdown of Russian and Inuit settlements. When Secretary William H. Seward began negotiations to acquire Alaska from Russia he was supplied with a dossier of Russian survey maps and documents dating to the expeditions of Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov. The archive was handed off to George Davidson, who employed Adolph Lindenkohl of the U. S. Coast Survey to help him compile the documents, as well as new research associated with Coast Survey work in Alaska, to compile a new highly accurate map of the region. Two editions of the map were issued. A first edition to accompany Davidson's report, and a second, the present example, to accompany Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner's congressional speech in favor of the Alaska Purchase Treaty. The second edition, as here, offers significantly more inland and coastal detail and other important revisions including a detailed inset of Sitka. It accompanies the original published transcript of Sumner's 1867 speech. In a 3-hour speech, Sumner spoke in favor of the treaty on the Senate floor, describing in detail Alaska's imperial history, natural resources, population, and climate. Sumner wanted to block British expansion (from Canada), arguing that Alaska was geographically and financially strategic, especially for the Pacific Coast States. He said Alaska would increase America's borders; spread republican institutions; and represent an act of friendship with Russia. …
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