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English: Placer workings for mining activities at Discovery, Alaska, September 1914   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Placer workings for mining activities at Discovery, Alaska, September 1914
Description
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Caption under photo: Placer Workings at Discovery.

McPherson number: K524

PH Coll 495.2-61c

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): Mining camps--Alaska; Hydraulic mining--Alaska
  • Subjects (LCSH): Placer mining--Alaska--Discovery
Depicted place Space Shuttle Discovery
Date September 1914
date QS:P571,+1914-09-00T00:00:00Z/10
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
3965
Source
English: Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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