Two expedition members laying logs to create a crossing, or corduroy road across marsh near Bear Creek, Alaska, August or September 1914
A corduroy road, also known as a skid road, is built by placing logs across a swampy area to form a road. Caption next to photo: Corduroying Marshes near Bear Cr. McPherson number: K398 PH Coll 495.2-30d Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that do...
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| Summary: | A corduroy road, also known as a skid road, is built by placing logs across a swampy area to form a road. Caption next to photo: Corduroying Marshes near Bear Cr. McPherson number: K398 PH Coll 495.2-30d 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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