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: K384 PH Coll 495.2-27b 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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Summary: | Dotted line drawn on photos shows route. Caption under photos: Valley S. Fork Kuskokwim from Camp 60. McPherson number: K384 PH Coll 495.2-27b 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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