Buildings in Takotna, including the Kuskokwim Commercial Company store, Alaska, September 1914

Dotted line drawn on photo shows route along river. Caption under photo: "Tacotna." McPherson number: K487 PH Coll 495.2-52b Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance survey party (...

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Summary:Dotted line drawn on photo shows route along river. Caption under photo: "Tacotna." McPherson number: K487 PH Coll 495.2-52b 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.