Panorama of Skwentna River valley with Beluga Mountain at right, seen from Shell Hills, July or August 1914
Photos are glued together to form panorama. Writing and dotted line on photo identify Beluga Mountain. McPherson numbers: K90, K89 PH Coll 495.1-23c-d Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissanc...
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Summary: | Photos are glued together to form panorama. Writing and dotted line on photo identify Beluga Mountain. McPherson numbers: K90, K89 PH Coll 495.1-23c-d 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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