Log house with logs on sawhorse in yard near junction of Salmon River and Pitka Fork, Alaska, September 1914

Caption under photo: Home of Native - near Mouth Salmon River. McPherson number: K416 PH Coll 495.2-35b 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 Al...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Log cabins > Alaska
Dwellings > Alaska
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3858
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Summary:Caption under photo: Home of Native - near Mouth Salmon River. McPherson number: K416 PH Coll 495.2-35b 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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