Scrubby undergrowth west of Pitka Divide, Alaska, August or September 1914

The Government Winter Trail runs through a "gravel flat" indicated on Map Sheet 27. Caption under photo: Gravel. Plain - West of Pitka Divide. Scrubby Undergrowth. McPherson number: K388 PH Coll 495.2-28b Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engine...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Pitka Divide (Alaska)
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3830
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Summary:The Government Winter Trail runs through a "gravel flat" indicated on Map Sheet 27. Caption under photo: Gravel. Plain - West of Pitka Divide. Scrubby Undergrowth. McPherson number: K388 PH Coll 495.2-28b 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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