Looking northwest across Kuskokwim Basin from Pitka Divide hills, Alaska, August or September 1914

Caption under photo: Kuskokwim Basin N. W. from Pitka Divide. Panorama 386-387. McPherson number: K386 PH Coll 495.2-27d 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...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Subjects:
Kuskokwim River Watershed (Alaska)
Watersheds > Alaska
Basins (Geology) > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3828
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Summary:Caption under photo: Kuskokwim Basin N. W. from Pitka Divide. Panorama 386-387. McPherson number: K386 PH Coll 495.2-27d 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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