Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition members leading horses across ice field on the west side of Simpson Pass, Alaska Range, Alaska, August 1914
Caption under photo: Crossing Ice Field West side Simpson Pass. McPherson number: K322 PH Coll 495.2-10a 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 A...
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Summary: | Caption under photo: Crossing Ice Field West side Simpson Pass. McPherson number: K322 PH Coll 495.2-10a 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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