Upper Happy River Valley, Alaska, August 1914 (AL+CA 3637)

Dotted line drawn on photo shows route.
McPherson number: K194

PH Coll 495.1-49a
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; Valleys--Alaska; Mountains--Alaska
Subjects (LCSH): Happy River (Alaska)