Simpson Pass in Alaska Range seen from Earl River Valley below, with Kuskokwim Reconnaissance packhorses in foreground, Alaska, August 1914

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• Subjects: Expeditions & surveys > Alaska; Passes (Landforms) > Alaska; Mountains > Alaska; Horses > Alaska; Pack animals > Alaska; Packtrains > Alaska; Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914); Mountain Passes > Alaska; Simpson Pass (Alaska); Alaska Range (Alaska); Anchorage; alaska range; Kuskokwim; Alaska
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Caption under photo: Simpson Pass from Earl Cr. Valley. McPherson number: K323 PH Coll 495.2-10b 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.