File:Men from Kuskokwim Reconnaissance party setting up Camp No 2 and raising American flag, near village of Knik, Alaska, June 1914 (AL+CA 3457).jpg
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[edit]English: Men from Kuskokwim Reconnaissance party setting up Camp No. 2 and raising American flag, near village of Knik, Alaska, June 1914
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English: Men from Kuskokwim Reconnaissance party setting up Camp No. 2 and raising American flag, near village of Knik, Alaska, June 1914 |
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English: Knik Anchorage was an early name for the Port of Anchorage at the mouth of Ship Creek. The present city of Anchorage is near this location. McPherson number: K9 PH Coll 495.1-3bPhotograph 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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Depicted place | Anchorage, Alaska | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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June 1914 date QS:P571,+1914-06-00T00:00:00Z/10 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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Order Number InfoField | AWC4299 |
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