Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition members in Camp No. 38, near the Skwentna River, Alaska, July or August 1914

Caption under photo: Camp No. 38. McPherson number: K130 PH Coll 495.1-33a 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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Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Camps > Alaska
Tents > Alaska
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3574
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Summary:Caption under photo: Camp No. 38. McPherson number: K130 PH Coll 495.1-33a 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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