Kuskokwim Reconnaissance rafts in distance on Big River, Alaska, September 1914

Caption: Big River. McPherson number: K440 PH Coll 495.2-40c 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...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Expeditions & surveys > Alaska
Rivers > Alaska
Rafts > Alaska
Kuskokwim Reconnaissace Expedition (1914)
Big River (Alaska)
Anchorage
Big River
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3881
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Summary:Caption: Big River. McPherson number: K440 PH Coll 495.2-40c 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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