Packhorses on riverbank and and expedition member in canoe leading horse through water, seen from across South Fork Kuskokwim River near junction with Tatina River, Alaska, August or September 1914
Caption under photo: Up S. Fork Kuskokwim from Camp 57. McPherson number: K342 PH Coll 495.2-16d 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 Ra...
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Summary: | Caption under photo: Up S. Fork Kuskokwim from Camp 57. McPherson number: K342 PH Coll 495.2-16d 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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