Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition members seated around camp fire, with clothing drying on branch, near junction of Kahiltna and Yentna Rivers, Alaska, July 1914

McPherson number: K68 PH Coll 495.1-17d 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.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
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Subjects:
Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Camps > Alaska
Campfires
Tree limbs
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Drying apparatus > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3515
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Summary:McPherson number: K68 PH Coll 495.1-17d 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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