Two Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition members with packhorses along edge of lake, along Government Winter Trail through South Fork Kuskokwim River Valley, Alaska, August or September 1914
Dotted line drawn on photo to show route. McPherson number: K370 PH Coll 495.2-23d 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 Commiss...
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Summary: | Dotted line drawn on photo to show route. McPherson number: K370 PH Coll 495.2-23d 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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