Three Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition members propelling tented raft with pole, on Pitka Fork, Alaska, September 1914

McPherson number: K432 PH Coll 495.2-38c 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 M...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
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Subjects:
Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Rivers > Alaska
Rafts > Alaska
Tents > Alaska
Flags > American
Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)
Pitka Fork (Alaska)
Flags > United States
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3873
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Summary:McPherson number: K432 PH Coll 495.2-38c 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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