Buildings at Marshall placer mining camp on bank of Yukon River, Alaska, September 1914

Caption under photo: Marshall. McPherson number: K581 PH Coll 495.2-75b 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 expedit...

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Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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Rivers > Alaska
Mining camps > Alaska
Mine bulidings > Alaska > Marshall
Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)
Marshall (Alaska) > Buildings
structures
etc
Yukon
Anchorage
Kuskokwim
Yukon river
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/4020
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Summary:Caption under photo: Marshall. McPherson number: K581 PH Coll 495.2-75b 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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