Grassland on the approach to the Pitka Divide, hills that run in a northwestern line from the foothills of the Terra Cotta Mountains, Alaska, August or September 1914

Caption under photo: Approach to Divide. McPherson number: K377 PH Coll 495.2-25c 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 Commissi...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Meadows > Alaska
Grasslands > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3819
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Summary:Caption under photo: Approach to Divide. McPherson number: K377 PH Coll 495.2-25c 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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