Looking northwest across Kuskokwim Basin from Pitka Divide, Alaska, August or September 1914
Caption under photo: N. W. from Pitka Divide. McPherson number: K387 PH Coll 495.2-28a 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 Com...
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Summary: | Caption under photo: N. W. from Pitka Divide. McPherson number: K387 PH Coll 495.2-28a 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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