Looking across Ptarmigan Valley, Alaska, August 1914
Dotted line drawn on photo shows route. Caption under photo: Up Ptarmigan Valley. McPherson number: K301 PH Coll 495.2-4a 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 Part...
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Summary: | Dotted line drawn on photo shows route. Caption under photo: Up Ptarmigan Valley. McPherson number: K301 PH Coll 495.2-4a 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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