Otter Creek between Discovery and Flat City, Alaska, September 1914

Caption next to photo: Otter Creek bet. Discovery & Flat City. A luxurient [sic] growth of Red Top wherever the ground is bare of timber and not swampy. McPherson number: K532 PH Coll 495.2-63b Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that document...

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Summary:Caption next to photo: Otter Creek bet. Discovery & Flat City. A luxurient [sic] growth of Red Top wherever the ground is bare of timber and not swampy. McPherson number: K532 PH Coll 495.2-63b 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.