Buildings of the Northern Commercial Company headquarters in McGrath, seen from across the Kuskokwim River, Alaska, September 1914

• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
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• Subjects: Cities & towns > Alaska; Commercial facilities > Alaska; Rivers > Alaska; McGrath (Alaska) > Buildings; structures; etc.; Kuskokwim River (Alaska); Northern Commercial Company; Anchorage; McGrath; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3903

Caption under photo: Northern Commercial Co. Headquarters - McGrath. McPherson number: K462 PH Coll 495.2-46a 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.