Trees near Willow Creek, Alaska, June 1914

Caption below photo: Topographer studying surrounding Country from Tree Top North of Camp #8. McPherson number: K23 PH Coll 495.1-6c Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance survey party (kn...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
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Trees > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3470
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Summary:Caption below photo: Topographer studying surrounding Country from Tree Top North of Camp #8. McPherson number: K23 PH Coll 495.1-6c 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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