Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Alaska Purchase

Alaska Purchase

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Original – The original check used for the Alaska Purchase, in which the US purchased Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million

Reason

Highly significant document, high resolution, quality scan, well-used

Articles in which this image appears

Alaska Purchase, History of Alaska, Russian America, 1867

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History

Creator

Signed by Edouard de Stoeckl and William H. Seward (if I'm not mistaken), scan by US Government

• Support as nominator -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:22, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
• The Strongest Support --g. balaxaZe ^{ႫႨႼႤႰႠ} 12:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support Tomer T (talk) 14:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support Nice scan of an important document in U.S. history. Indefatigable2 (talk) 16:02, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
• question Why is it trapezoid?Geni (talk) 19:34, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
• Weak support Nice. Sort of had the same thought as Geni, but I'm not sure what the circumstances are. Unrelated to my vote, wouldn't mind if redlinks in description would be corrected (not exactly sure they're needed either). – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 20:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
  • I feel the 'trapezoid' impression may be due to some natural curling of the document. Indefatigable2 (talk) 20:30, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
    • That was my impression as well. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:40, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
    • BTW: Links removed. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:58, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
      • Trapezoidal is generally due to either A. uneven shrinkage as paper dries out or B. not lying flat, since noone will press a one-of-a-kind ancient document down just to make it flatter. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 02:19, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
• Comment Is the back side of the document available? Brandmeister^talk 10:02, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
  • Not in the sources I've seen (I went to the Archive's website [what a mess] and didn't find anything either) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:22, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support Good scan of historical document. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 23:12, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:Alaska Purchase (hi-res).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:42, 10 July 2013 (UTC)