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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Corduroy roads > Alaska
Wetlands > Alaska
Logs
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Marshes > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
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spelling ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:alaskawcanada/3840 2023-05-15T17:05:36+02:00 Two expedition members laying logs to create a crossing, or corduroy road across marsh near Bear Creek, Alaska, August or September 1914 University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. United States--Alaska--Bear Creek Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL at 100-150 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 5 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2012. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3840 unknown Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection AWC4685 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3840 For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Alaska Engineering Commission photograph collection. PH Coll 495 Corduroy roads--Alaska Wetlands--Alaska Logs Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914) Marshes--Alaska Photograph; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:04:16Z 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. Other/Unknown Material Kuskokwim Alaska University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Anchorage
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topic Corduroy roads--Alaska
Wetlands--Alaska
Logs
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Marshes--Alaska
spellingShingle Corduroy roads--Alaska
Wetlands--Alaska
Logs
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Marshes--Alaska
Two expedition members laying logs to create a crossing, or corduroy road across marsh near Bear Creek, Alaska, August or September 1914
topic_facet Corduroy roads--Alaska
Wetlands--Alaska
Logs
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Marshes--Alaska
description 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.
author2 University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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title Two expedition members laying logs to create a crossing, or corduroy road across marsh near Bear Creek, Alaska, August or September 1914
title_short Two expedition members laying logs to create a crossing, or corduroy road across marsh near Bear Creek, Alaska, August or September 1914
title_full Two expedition members laying logs to create a crossing, or corduroy road across marsh near Bear Creek, Alaska, August or September 1914
title_fullStr Two expedition members laying logs to create a crossing, or corduroy road across marsh near Bear Creek, Alaska, August or September 1914
title_full_unstemmed Two expedition members laying logs to create a crossing, or corduroy road across marsh near Bear Creek, Alaska, August or September 1914
title_sort two expedition members laying logs to create a crossing, or corduroy road across marsh near bear creek, alaska, august or september 1914
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Alaska
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Alaska
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Alaska Engineering Commission photograph collection. PH Coll 495
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AWC4685
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