Sign at the summit of Rainy Pass stating mileage to Seward and Nome, Teocalli Mountains, Alaska, August 1914
Sign at summit reads: Summit Rainy Pass. Nome 669. Seward 289. McPherson number: K225 PH Coll 495.1-56d 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 Al...
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Summary: | Sign at summit reads: Summit Rainy Pass. Nome 669. Seward 289. McPherson number: K225 PH Coll 495.1-56d 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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