Poles, probably holding telegraph lines, on hillside near Discovery, hay rick in distance, Alaska, September 1914
Arrow drawn on photo indicates the hay rick in the distance. Caption under photo: Native Hay Field on Hillside from which Timber has been cut. Discovery & Flat City. Note Hay Ricks. McPherson number: K529 PH Coll 495.2-62d Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a...
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| Summary: | Arrow drawn on photo indicates the hay rick in the distance. Caption under photo: Native Hay Field on Hillside from which Timber has been cut. Discovery & Flat City. Note Hay Ricks. McPherson number: K529 PH Coll 495.2-62d 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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