Group of Kuskokwim Reconnaissance horses carrying expedition supplies in 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: K16 PH Coll 495.1-4d 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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Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Horses > Alaska
Pack animals > Alaska
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Freight and freightage > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3463
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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: K16 PH Coll 495.1-4d 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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