Marsh near Bear Creek, which crosses Government Winter Trail, Alaska, August or September 1914

Caption under photo: Marsh near Bear Cr. McPherson number: K397 PH Coll 495.2-30c 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 Commissi...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Wetlands > Alaska
Marshes > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3839
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Summary:Caption under photo: Marsh near Bear Cr. McPherson number: K397 PH Coll 495.2-30c 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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