Skwentna River, looking north from the mouth of Shell Creek, Alaska, July or August 1914
Caption under photo: "Skwentna River" N. from Mouth Shell Creek. McPherson number: K112 PH Coll 495.1-28d 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....
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Summary: | Caption under photo: "Skwentna River" N. from Mouth Shell Creek. McPherson number: K112 PH Coll 495.1-28d 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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