Buildings of Salmon River Roadhouse, seen from Salmon River, Alaska, September 1914

• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Rivers > Alaska; Salmon River Roadhouse (Alaska); Roadhouses > Alaska; Salmon River (Alaska); Anchorage; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3849

Caption under photo: Salmon River Road House. McPherson number: K407 PH Coll 495.2-33a 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.