Two Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition members walking through vegetation in Skwentna River valley, Alaska, July or August 1914
Caption next to photo: Undergrowth Skwentna Valley. McPherson number: K79 PH Coll 495.1-20d 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 Railroa...
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Summary: | Caption next to photo: Undergrowth Skwentna Valley. McPherson number: K79 PH Coll 495.1-20d 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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