Two Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition members with walking sticks in Pitka Valley swamp, Alaska, August or September 1914

Caption under photo: Portaging outfit through swamps. Pitka Valley McPherson number: K392 PH Coll 495.2-29b 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 th...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Wetlands > Alaska
Staffs (Sticks)
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Swamps > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3834
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Summary:Caption under photo: Portaging outfit through swamps. Pitka Valley McPherson number: K392 PH Coll 495.2-29b 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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