Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition member in canoe leading packhorse through water, with other horses walking into the middle channel of the Susitna River in background, Alaska, July 1914

McPherson number: K48 PH Coll 495.1-12d 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 Mc...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Subjects:
Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Rivers > Alaska
Horses > Alaska
Pack animals > Alaska
Canoes > Alaska
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Susitna River (Alaska)
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3495
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Summary:McPherson number: K48 PH Coll 495.1-12d 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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