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Packhorses near South Fork Kuskokwim River, between Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Camps 48 and 49, Alaska, August 1914
Packhorses near South Fork Kuskokwim River, between Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Camps 48 and 49, Alaska, August 1914
TitlePackhorses near South Fork Kuskokwim River, between Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Camps 48 and 49, Alaska, August 1914
PhotographerUnknown
Date1914
NotesDotted line drawn on item shows route.

Caption under photo: S. Fork Kuskokwim River between Camps 48 & 49.

McPherson number: K239
PH Coll 495.1-60a
Contextual NotesPhotograph 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.
Subjects (LCSH)xyz
Location DepictedUnited States--Alaska--Kuskokwim River
Digital CollectionAlaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
Order NumberAWC4526
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections
Repository CollectionAlaska Engineering Commission photograph collection. PH Coll 495
Object TypePhotograph
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL at 100-150 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 5 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2012.
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