Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition member walking through tall grasses in wooded area between Susitna and Yentna Rivers, Alaska, July 1914
Caption under photo: Grass Meadow Birch and Spruce Ridge. McPherson number: K61 PH Coll 495.1-16a 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 R...
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Summary: | Caption under photo: Grass Meadow Birch and Spruce Ridge. McPherson number: K61 PH Coll 495.1-16a 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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