Looking toward South Fork Kuskokwim River from Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Camp 50, Alaska, August 1914

Caption under photo: Down S. F. Kuskokwim from Camp 50. McPherson number: K276 PH Coll 495.1-70a 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 Ra...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Subjects:
Rivers > Alaska
Kuskokwim River (Alaska)
Anchorage
South Fork
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3718
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Summary:Caption under photo: Down S. F. Kuskokwim from Camp 50. McPherson number: K276 PH Coll 495.1-70a 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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