J. A. Denny, Packer for the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance, posed outdoors near junction of Salmon River and Pitka Fork, Alaska, September 1914

Caption under photo: Denny. McPherson number: K423 PH Coll 495.2-36c 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...

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Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Denny
J. A.
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3864
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Summary:Caption under photo: Denny. McPherson number: K423 PH Coll 495.2-36c 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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