Mouth of Middle Fork Big River, Alaska, September 1914

Caption: Middle Fork - Big River. McPherson number: K436 PH Coll 495.2-39c 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 expe...

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Summary:Caption: Middle Fork - Big River. McPherson number: K436 PH Coll 495.2-39c 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.