Looking southeast across Pitka Divide hills from Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Camp 60, Alaska, August or September 1914

Caption under photo: Pitka Divide S. E. from Camp 60. McPherson number: K380 PH Coll 495.2-26b 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 Rail...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
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Subjects:
Passes (Landforms) > Alaska
Hills > Alaska
Pitka Divide (Alaska)
Mountain passes > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3822
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Summary:Caption under photo: Pitka Divide S. E. from Camp 60. McPherson number: K380 PH Coll 495.2-26b 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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