Looking at Terra Cotta Mountains near junction of Post River and South Fork Kuskokwim River, Alaska, August or September 1914
Dotted line drawn on photo shows route. Caption under photo: Down Post River and across S. Fork Kuskokwim. McPherson number: K350 PH Coll 495.2-18d Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance s...
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Summary: | Dotted line drawn on photo shows route. Caption under photo: Down Post River and across S. Fork Kuskokwim. McPherson number: K350 PH Coll 495.2-18d 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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