Beaver lodge, probably on Shell Creek near Skwentna River, Alaska, July or August 1914

Caption under photo: "Beaver House." McPherson number: K117 PH Coll 495.1-29d 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 Co...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Beaver dams > Alaska
Streams > Alaska
Shell Creek (Alaska)
Anchorage
Shell Creek
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3561
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Summary:Caption under photo: "Beaver House." McPherson number: K117 PH Coll 495.1-29d 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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