Looking west over mining settlement of Discovery and Otter Creek Valley, Alaska, September 1914
Caption under photo: West - Discovery and Otter Creek Valley. McPherson number: K521 PH Coll 495.2-60d 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 Ala...
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| Summary: | Caption under photo: West - Discovery and Otter Creek Valley. McPherson number: K521 PH Coll 495.2-60d 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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