Looking downstream on South Fork Kuskokwim River, Alaska, August 1914 (AL+CA 3723)

Dotted line drawn on item shows route.
McPherson number: K281

PH Coll 495.1-71b
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.
Subjects (LCTGM): Rivers--Alaska; Mountains--Alaska
Subjects (LCSH): Kuskokwim River (Alaska)