G G Blake, Topographer for the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance, posed outdoors near junction of Salmon River and Pitka Fork, Alaska (AL+CA 3861)

Caption under photo: Blake.
McPherson number: K420

PH Coll 495.2-35e
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; Surveyors--Alaska
Subjects (LCSH): Blake, G. G.; Kuskokwim Reconnaissance Expedition (1914)