Includes a letter from Sam W. Very to Gov. Lyman Knapp, 1892. Retired Lt. Commander US Navy Sam Very provides a written account of his time at Sitka from Sept. 1867 to Feb. 1868 and the transfer of Alaska. Written at the request of Gov. Knapp.

Contains a research file on the history of the sale of Alaska by Russia. (Includes copies of material, some correspondence, and lithographs of Russian Tsar Alexander II and Prince Gorchakov.)

This box contains various records, included are documents concerning the transfer and post-transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States (includes Russian language correspondence about property rights of Russians living in Sitka).

Volume documents transfer of property, deeds, and other official actions carried out between 1867-1887. Volume appears to be an original record copy of an original from the period. Includes documentation about transfer of property from the Russian America Company, its General Manager, and other to the Mayor of Sitka.

Two documents related to the transfer of property in Sitka in 1868 with the transfer of Alaska to the United States. These records connect to the reproduction of the 1867 map located in MP 8 (Reference Code 1875-0001 - map available online via ASA's homepage).

Microfilm of oversized documents that contain a typed rendering of birth, marriage, and death records, presumably from Russian Orthodox Church records, 1845-1917 (Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound, Afognak, Kodiak, Juneau, Sitka). This record was created from originals, the location of the originals are unknown.