Yukon River with buildings of Marshall, a placer mining camp, in distance, Alaska, September 1914

Caption under photo: "Marshall" a new placer camp. McPherson number: K579 PH Coll 495.2-74d 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 Alas...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Rivers > Alaska
Mining camps > Alaska
Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)
Marshall (Alaska)
Yukon
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Yukon river
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/4018
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Summary:Caption under photo: "Marshall" a new placer camp. McPherson number: K579 PH Coll 495.2-74d 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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