John Holmes Scott photograph collection, 1900-1916.

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John Holmes Scott photograph collection, 1900-1916.

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The John Holmes Scott Photograph Collection consists of 87 images, primarily of the Nome and Cape Prince of Wales regions on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Taken in the early twentieth century, the photographs depict many aspects of everyday life in the area, with emphases on dog teams, the reindeer industry, the Inupiaq culture, gold mining, and the revenue cutters that plied the waters of Bering Strait. Also included are two photographs of Scott's restaurant in Nome, named "Scotty's Beanery." The majority of the images are by commercial photographers Lomen Bros., H. G. Kaiser, B. B. Dobbs, and O. D. Goetze.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7918015

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Lomen Bros.

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The Lomen family was well known in Alaska for an entreprenurial spirit. Their interests varied from reindeer herding to law practice. The five Lomen brothers, Carl Joys, Alfred Julian, Harry, George, and Ralph helped create a reindeer industry, outfitted the Norwegian explorer Amundsen and participated in the birth of bush aviation in Alaska. Judge G.J. Lomen of St. Paul, Minnesota, moved to Nome after vacationing with a son, Carl, in the early 1900's. In 1903, they were joined by his wife, Juli...

United States. Revenue-Cutter Service

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Scott, John Holmes.

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John Holmes Scott went with the gold rush to Nome, Alaska, at the turn of the twentieth century. Rather than mining, he opened a restaurant called Scotty's Beanery. In World War I, he went with the Canadian Expedition to Vladivostock. He was mentioned in Raymond Massey's autobiography as one of the theatrical performers (Scottish songs). He became interested in collecting furs and in training sledge dogs. He took a number of teams to California, where they appeared in many of the Warner Bros. fi...

Goetze, O. D. (Otto Daniel)

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Otto D. Goetze was born in Missouri in 1871 to a German immigrant family of twelve children. Goetze left Missouri as a young man, moving to Walla Walla, Wash., then to Oregon, and later to Seattle. Goetze went to Alaska around 1898 as the Gold Rush began and established a photography studio in Nome. Though he returned to the mainland at least once during this time--to photograph the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904--Goetze remained in Alaska photographing Gold Rush activity and Alaska natives unti...

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...

Kaiser, H. G.

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