Beverly Bennett Dobbs

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"Eskimo girl" named Minnie
Bluff City, Alaska
Largest nugget found in Anvil Creek, Alaska

Beverly Bennett Dobbs (1868–1937)

Bogoslof group.[6] In Nome he photographed the town, the Seward Peninsula, and Inuit. He also reportedly prospected for gold. He partnered with A. B. Kinne to form Dobbs & Kinne in Nome.[7]

Achievements

Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition
(AYPE) in Seattle, 1909
Canada Building at the AYPE

In 1909, he established the Dobbs Alaska Moving Picture Co. and made films about the

Fairhaven, Washington area of Bellingham.[7] He was awarded a gold medal at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World's Fair) in 1904 for his "Eskimo" photographs.[4]

Inuk child in fur parka

Personal life

In 1896 Dobbs married Dorothy Sturgeon in Bellingham.[4]

Filmography

  • At the Top of the World,[8] Atop of the World in Motion, also known as Top of the World in Motion, a collection of his travelogue films[4]
  • A Romance of Seattle shot in and around Seattle in 1919[7]

References

  1. ^ "Nome's High Society". www.clarkart.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  2. ^ "Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett) - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  3. ^ "Nowadlook, an Inuit women, dressed in fur parka, Alaska, 1907". digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Archives West: Beverly B. Dobbs photographs, circa 1900-1912". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
  5. ^ "Archives West: Beverly B. Dobbs photographs, circa 1900-1912". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  6. ^ "Illustrated World ..." American School of Correspondence at Armour Institute of Technology. 30 December 2018 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ a b c d "Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett) @ SNAC". Snaccooperative.org.
  8. ^ The Moving Picture World. Chalmers Publishing Company. 1914. p. 795 – via Internet Archive.