Line of Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition packhorses approaching Rainy Pass in the Teocalli Mountains, Alaska, August 1914

McPherson number: K222 PH Coll 495.1-56a 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 M...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Horses > Alaska
Pack animals > Alaska
Packtrains > Alaska
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Anchorage
Rainy Pass
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3665
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Summary:McPherson number: K222 PH Coll 495.1-56a 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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