Looking across Happy Valley with low clouds obscuring mountain view, Alaska, August 1914

• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Valleys > Alaska; Clouds; Happy River Valley (Alaska); Anchorage; Happy Valley; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3748

Dotted line drawn on photo shows route. Caption under photo: Upper Happy Valley near Camp 53. McPherson number: K307 PH Coll 495.2-5c 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.