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English: Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition members leading horses across ice field on the west side of Simpson Pass, Alaska Range, Alaska, August 1914   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Kuskokwim Reconnaissance expedition members leading horses across ice field on the west side of Simpson Pass, Alaska Range, Alaska, August 1914
Description
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Caption under photo: Crossing Ice Field West side Simpson Pass.

McPherson number: K322

PH Coll 495.2-10a

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): Expeditions & surveys--Alaska; Passes (Landforms)--Alaska; Horses--Alaska; Pack animals--Alaska; Packtrains--Alaska
  • Subjects (LCSH): Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914); Simpson Pass (Alaska); Mountain passes--Alaska; Ice fields--Alaska
Depicted place
English: United States--Alaska--Simpson Pass
Date August 1914
date QS:P571,+1914-08-00T00:00:00Z/10
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
3763
Source
English: Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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