Three Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition members at work building rafts in clearing near junction of Salmon River and Pitka Fork, Alaska, September 1914

Caption under photo: "Building Rafts." Camp 66. McPherson number: K417 PH Coll 495.2-35c 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...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Rafts > Alaska
Logs
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Rafts > Design and construction
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3859
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Summary:Caption under photo: "Building Rafts." Camp 66. McPherson number: K417 PH Coll 495.2-35c 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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