Packhorses at Rohn Roadhouse, site of Kuskokwim Reconnnaissance Camp 47 near the junction of South Fork Kuskokwim and Tatina Rivers, Alaska, August or September 1914
Caption under photo: Rohn Road House - Camp 47. McPherson number: K337 PH Coll 495.2-16c 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 C...
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Summary: | Caption under photo: Rohn Road House - Camp 47. McPherson number: K337 PH Coll 495.2-16c 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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