Timber after a forest fire on the west side of South Fork Kuskokwim River, Alaska, August or September 1914
Caption under photo: Burnt timber West side S. Fork Kuskokwim. McPherson number: K346 PH Coll 495.2-17d 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 Al...
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Summary: | Caption under photo: Burnt timber West side S. Fork Kuskokwim. McPherson number: K346 PH Coll 495.2-17d 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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