Looking across valley of South Fork Kuskokwim River from Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Camp 60, Alaska, August or September 1914

Dotted line drawn on photos shows route. Caption under photos: Valley S. Fork Kuskokwim from Camp 60. McPherson number: K383 PH Coll 495.2-27a Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance survey...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Subjects:
Valleys > Alaska
Kuskokwim River Valley (Alaska)
Anchorage
South Fork
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3825
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Summary:Dotted line drawn on photos shows route. Caption under photos: Valley S. Fork Kuskokwim from Camp 60. McPherson number: K383 PH Coll 495.2-27a 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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