Panorama of Yentna Valley with Mount Yenlo at left, seen from Shell Hills, Alaska, July or August 1914

Photos are glued together to form panorama. Writing and dotted line drawn on photo identify Mount Yenlo. McPherson numbers: K89, K91 PH Coll 495.1-23a-b Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissa...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Yentna River Valley (Alaska)
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3536
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Summary:Photos are glued together to form panorama. Writing and dotted line drawn on photo identify Mount Yenlo. McPherson numbers: K89, K91 PH Coll 495.1-23a-b 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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