Heavily wooded west side of Happy River Valley, with snow-capped mountains in background, Alaska, August 1914

Dotted line drawn on photo shows route. McPherson number: K164 PH Coll 495.1-41c 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 Commissio...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Valleys > Alaska
Trees > Alaska
Mountains > Alaska
Happy River Valley (Alaska)
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3608
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Summary:Dotted line drawn on photo shows route. McPherson number: K164 PH Coll 495.1-41c 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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