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Photograph of the crowd on the Boardwalk

Photograph of the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel following William Price's renovation and expansion.

Photograph of tourists on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Upscale stores line the edge. The Traymore Hotel, following its 1915 expansion by William Price, towers above the storefronts.

Dr. Frederick W. Seward posed with two Eskimo women and child, Pay Streak, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909.

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Dr. Frederick W. Seward, son of William H. Seward, was a chief figure in the purchase of Alaska. Eskimos left to…

Offical AYP Expo postcard depicting five "Eskimo" children in traditional dress.

Caption on image: "Raltugia" takes life easy in her teddy bear costume. Eskimo village, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Seattle, Wash. 1909

A newspaper ad selling baby incubators to hospitals and sideshows alike.

Newspaper ad in which the Baby Incubator exhibit at the AYP Expo is advertised as "educational" and life-saving.

The signing of the Alaska Treaty of Cessation on March 30, 1867. L–R: Robert S. Chew, William H. Seward, William Hunter, Mr. Bodisco, Eduard de Stoeckl, Charles Sumner and Frederick W. Seward.

An American cartoon of 1867 on the Alaska purchase showing Secretary of State William H. Seward and President Andrew Johnson welcoming the representatives of the new territory to Washington, D.C.