Beverly B. Dobbs Photographs ca. 1900-1912

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Beverly B. Dobbs Photographs ca. 1900-1912

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Photographs by Beverly B. Dobbs documenting Nome, Alaska, including town scenes, high school basketball teams, the gold mining industry and the Inuit (Eskimo) people

61 photographic prints, 1 box; 1 album; 60 photographic prints, 1 box

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University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

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Hot Air Mining Company.

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Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)

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B. B. Dobbs (1868-1937) was active as a photographer and also was a pioneer in the emerging motion picture business in both Alaska and Washington State during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; he is believed to be one of the first individuals to have used motion picture film north of the Arctic Circle. Born Beverly Bennett Dobbs near Marshall, Missouri, he first learned photography in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1888, Dobbs moved to Bellingham, Washington, whe...

Pioneer Mining Company

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