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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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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