<p>McPherson number: K574
PH Coll 495.2-73c</p>
<p>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.</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Orthodox churches--Alaska--Russian Mission; Rivers--Alaska; Wooden buildings--Alaska--Russian Mission; Lumber--Alaska--Russian Mission; Canoes--Alaska--Russian Mission</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Russian Mission (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)</li></ul>
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