Looking southeast toward mountain near headwaters of Moore and Bonanza Creeks, Alaska, September 1914

Dotted line drawn on photo shows route. Caption under photo: S. E. to Divide at head of Moore & Bonanza Creeks. McPherson number: K510 PH Coll 495.2-58a Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconna...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Mountains > Alaska
Anchorage
Bonanza
Kuskokwim
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3951
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Summary:Dotted line drawn on photo shows route. Caption under photo: S. E. to Divide at head of Moore & Bonanza Creeks. McPherson number: K510 PH Coll 495.2-58a 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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