Two women and two men on Yentna riverbank at settlement of McDougal, fifty-seven miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska, July 1914

Caption under photo: "McDougal" Yentna River. McPherson number: K72 PH Coll 495.1-18d 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 Rai...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Rivers > Alaska
Rowboats > Alaska
Yentna River (Alaska)
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3519
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Summary:Caption under photo: "McDougal" Yentna River. McPherson number: K72 PH Coll 495.1-18d 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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