River valley at junction of Tatina River and South Fork Kuskokwim River, Alaska, August or September 1914

Caption seems to indicate river junction; no water is visible so river bed was dry at time of photo. Caption under photo: Junction Tatina & S. F. Kuskokwim Looking up S. Fork. McPherson number: K335 PH Coll 495.2-14b Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil...

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Summary:Caption seems to indicate river junction; no water is visible so river bed was dry at time of photo. Caption under photo: Junction Tatina & S. F. Kuskokwim Looking up S. Fork. McPherson number: K335 PH Coll 495.2-14b 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.