Fritz Kloke photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1892-1905.

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Fritz Kloke photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1892-1905.

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The collection contains snapshots from mostly unidentified photographers and studio-mounted images from Winter & Pond, Dobbs, Nowell, Kinne. Subjects include miners, mining and mining camps (and possibly military camps), Tlingits from Southeast Alaska, Nome Eskimos, a few ships and unidentified landscapes. Locations range from the Bering Sea to the Yukon Territory to Southeast Alaska including Anvil, Nome, Circle City and unidentified locations. Two images of the Nome Artic [Arctic] Railroad and the Wild Goose Railroad are included.

119 photographs : b&w.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7717081

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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...

Kloke, Fritz.

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Fritz Kloke was born in Marsberg, Westfallia, Germany in 1860. In 1885 he and a friend hired onto a boat in Germany, assuming it worked European waters, but instead landed in the United States. He wrote to his mother from New York City, explaining that he arrived there by accident, or, sooner than he expected. Another letter written to his mother in 1891, from San Francisco, said he had been in Alaska and would return to the Yukon in the spring. While at Forty Mile Creek during the spring of 189...

Winter & Pond

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Lloyd Valentine Winter (1866-1945) and Edwin Percy Pond (1872-1943), of the firm Winter & Pond Co., were prominent Alaskan photographers. In 1893, Winter came to Juneau from San Francisco and entered a partnership with George M. Landerkin, known as Landerkin and Winter. In 1894, his long time friend E.P. Pond bought out Landerkin. Winter and Pond served as official Alaska photographers for the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. During the gold rush, Winter was appointed the ...