Man cutting grass for hay on riverbank near the Salmon River's junction with Pitka Fork, Alaska, September 1914

Caption under photo: Cutting Native Hay - Mouth Salmon River. McPherson number: K411 PH Coll 495.2-34a 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 Ala...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Grasses
Rivers > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3853
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Summary:Caption under photo: Cutting Native Hay - Mouth Salmon River. McPherson number: K411 PH Coll 495.2-34a 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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