Joseph Martindale, General Assistant for the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance, posed outdoors smoking pipe near junction of Salmon River and Pitka Fork, Alaska, September 1914

Caption next to photo: Martindale. McPherson number: K425 PH Coll 495.2-36b 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 exp...

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Summary:Caption next to photo: Martindale. McPherson number: K425 PH Coll 495.2-36b 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.