Five men walking in on the street near Knik Road House, Knik, Alaska, June 1914

Knik Anchorage was an early name for the Port of Anchorage at the mouth of Ship Creek. The present city of Anchorage is near this location. McPherson number:K14 PH Coll 495.1-4b Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Wooden buildings > Alaska > Knik
Log buildings > Alaska > Knik
Roadhouses > Alaska > Knik
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3461
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Summary:Knik Anchorage was an early name for the Port of Anchorage at the mouth of Ship Creek. The present city of Anchorage is near this location. McPherson number:K14 PH Coll 495.1-4b Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance survey party (known as Party No. 11 of the Alaska Railroad Commission expedition). The A.E.C. had assigned McPherson to research the feasibility of building a branch railroad from Anchorage west to the mining districts on the Kuskokwim and Iditarod Rivers.

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