Looking toward river valley of the South Fork Kuskokwim River from south of Post River, Alaska, August or September 1914
Dotted line drawn on photo shows route. Caption under photo: "Valley of S. Fork Kuskokwim" from South of Post River. McPherson number: K347 PH Coll 495.2-18a Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskok...
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Summary: | Dotted line drawn on photo shows route. Caption under photo: "Valley of S. Fork Kuskokwim" from South of Post River. McPherson number: K347 PH Coll 495.2-18a 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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