Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition members and packhorses at Camp 45, north of Rainy Pass, Teocalli Mountains, August 1914

Caption under photo: Camp 45. McPherson number: K229 PH Coll 495.1-57d 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 expediti...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Camps > Alaska
Horses > Alaska
Pack animals > Alaska
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Anchorage
Rainy Pass
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3672
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Summary:Caption under photo: Camp 45. McPherson number: K229 PH Coll 495.1-57d 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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