Channel of the Skwentna River, which flows from its headwaters at South Twin Glacier to the Yentna River, Alaska, July or August 1914

Caption under photo: Channels Skwentna River. McPherson number: K84 PH Coll 495.1-21d 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 Comm...

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Summary:Caption under photo: Channels Skwentna River. McPherson number: K84 PH Coll 495.1-21d 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.