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Wikipedia: The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km) of the French territory Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million francs plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), a total cost of 15 million dollars for the Louisiana territory. The Louisiana Purchase encompassed all or part of 14 current U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.
![[At the Purchase's centennial fair, one illustrator imagined the treaty signing as above]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Louisianatransfer_exposition1904_vc180_s.jpg "At the Purchase's centennial fair, one illustrator imagined the treaty signing as above")
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![[Commemorating plaque, inaugurated for the bicentenary of the signing on 20 April 2003, on a wall of the Hôtel...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Plaque_at_H_C3_B4tel_Tubeuf_commemorating_the_Louisiana_purchase_2C_2010_06_12_02_s.jpg "Commemorating plaque, inaugurated for the bicentenary of the signing on 20 April 2003, on a wall of the Hôtel...")
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![[Issue of 1953, Commemorating 150th Anniversary of signing.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Louisana_Purchase_1953_Issue_3c_s.jpg "Issue of 1953, Commemorating 150th Anniversary of signing.")
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![[Louisiana Purchase mural in Rayville, Louisiana]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Louisiana_Purchase_mural_2C_Rayville_2C_LA_IMG_0175_s.jpg "Louisiana Purchase mural in Rayville, Louisiana")
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![[Louisiana Purchase Map Issue of 1903, commemorating 100th Anniversary]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Louisiana_Purchase7_1903_Issue_10c_s.jpg "Louisiana Purchase Map Issue of 1903, commemorating 100th Anniversary")
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![[A contemporary mapmaker's vision of "Louisiana", edged on the west by the Rocky Mountains]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Louisiana1804a_s.jpg "A contemporary mapmaker's vision of \"Louisiana\", edged on the west by the Rocky Mountains")
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