Placer mining operation at Flat, Alaska, seen from across valley, September 1914
Caption under photo: "Flat City." Center of Placer operations Iditarod Region. McPherson number: K533 PH Coll 495.2-63d 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...
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Summary: | Caption under photo: "Flat City." Center of Placer operations Iditarod Region. McPherson number: K533 PH Coll 495.2-63d 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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