Looking across Happy River Valley, Alaska, August 1914
Dotted line drawn on photos shows route. Caption on page: Happy River Valley. 178-179-180 Panorama. 178 S. E. down Valley. McPherson number: K179 PH Coll 495.1-45b Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim...
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Summary: | Dotted line drawn on photos shows route. Caption on page: Happy River Valley. 178-179-180 Panorama. 178 S. E. down Valley. McPherson number: K179 PH Coll 495.1-45b 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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