Expedition member in front of tents at Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Camp No. 29, near the junction of Shell Creek and the Skwentna River, Alaska, July or August 1914

Caption under photo: Camp No. 29. McPherson number: K115 PH Coll 495.1-29b 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 expe...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Subjects:
Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Tents > Alaska
Camps > Alaska
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Anchorage
Shell Creek
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3559
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Summary:Caption under photo: Camp No. 29. McPherson number: K115 PH Coll 495.1-29b 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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