Tall grass on Shell Hills, hills that stretch for ten miles along the east bank of Shell Creek and Shell Lake, Alaska, July or August 1914

• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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• Subjects: Grasses > Alaska; Meadows > Alaska; Trees > Alaska; Grasslands > Alaska; Shell Hills (Alaska); Anchorage; East Bank; Shell Creek; Shell Lake; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3535

Caption next to photo: Grass 6' high Shell Hills. McPherson number: K88 PH Coll 495.1-22d 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.