Beverly B. Dobbs Alaska photograph album, approximately 1903-1907
Table of Contents
- Overview of the Collection
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Biographical Note
- Content Description
- Use of the Collection
- Administrative Information
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Detailed Description of the Collection
- Alaska Native man dressed in parka holding a stick. (156), 1903
- Wegaruk and her child. (346), 1905
- Iñupiat woman Nowadluk Nora Ootenna dressed in fur parka, Alaska, 1907
- Young Iñupiat woman wearing cloth kuspuk, Alaska, 1903
- Iñupiat man dressed in a fur lined parka, Alaska (119), 1903
- Iñupiat woman Martha Anguluk with chin tattoo wearing fur parka and mitten, 1903
- Taluk and her baby, circa 1903-1907
- Five Alaska Native people with metal buckets on a street, circa 1903-1907
- Four young Iñupiat women including Nowadluk Nora Ootenna wearing fur parkas, Nome, Alaska, 1903
- Portrait of Iñupiat with tonsured hair wearing fur parka (129), 1903
- Iñupiat boy Kituk with his parents Nopunkoak and Kitnk, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, 1903
- Alaska Native woman (184), 1903
- Iñupiat child wearing fur parka, Alaska, between 1898 and 1908
- Large group of Iñupiat people outside a building in Nome, Alaska during reception to Governor Hoggatt, July 28, 1906
- Iñupiat man with tonsured hair, woman and child seated inside shelter and working with tools, circa 1903-1907
- Tents, canoes and logs on a beach. (806), 1906
- Men and dogs outside Iñupiat cache and igloo near Cape Douglas, Alaska, between 1903 and 1907
- Alaska Native woman ice fishing, Alaska (648), 1906
- Iñupiat reindeer driver with sled and reindeer near Nome, Alaska, circa 1903-1907
- Iñupiat children outside school in Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, circa 1903-1907
- Clothes hanging from an upturned umiak, circa 1903-1907
- Man in a native whaling boat at the edge of the ice pack in the Bering Straits, circa 1903-1907
- Two Iñupiat boys skinning reindeer near Penny River, Alaska. #953, circa 1903-1907
- Two Iñupiat men with a racks of reindeer killed for the Nome market near Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, circa 1903-1907
- Reindeer herd near Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, circa 1903-1907
- Cape Prince of Wales Iñupiat people and reindeer hauling sleds of reindeer meat to Nome market, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, between 1901 and 1911
- Two people and a dog sled team, circa 1903-1907
- Man in ice field at the edge of town, circa 1903-1907
- Men and dog sled team on East Front Street in Nome, Alaska, January 1907
- Destruction in Nome, Alaska caused by a storm, circa 1903-1907
- Ship covered in snow and ice, circa 1903-1907
- View down a street in Nome, Alaska, circa 1903-1907
- Nome, Alaska viewed from the ice-covered Bering Sea, circa 1903-1907
- Sloop Greyhound smashed by the ice pack, January 1907
- Warped railroad tracks and dock caused by the ice pack, January 1907
- Nome, Alaska viewed from the ice-covered Bering Sea, circa 1903-1907
- Group of men, women and dogs around an ice hummock on the Bering Sea, one mile in front of Nome, Alaska. (708), February 25, 1906
- Two-part panorama of Nome as viewed from the ice-covered Bering Sea, 1907
- Bob Griffis, U.S. Mail Carrier, and his dog sled team one mile in front of Nome, Alaska on the Bering Sea (627), circa 1903-1907
- Rack of drying Tom Cod near Nome, Alaska. (453), circa 1903-1907
- Two men and a dog sled team in snow, circa 1903-1907
- People looking out over the side of a ship, circa 1903-1907
- Large ship in an icy sea. (153), circa 1903-1907
- Sesnon Lighterage Co. crane loading passengers for the S.S. St. Paul in Nome, Alaska, circa 1903-1907
- Passengers on a barge landing at Nome, Alaska from the S.S. Ohio. (844), June 9, 1906
- Nome life saving crew making for the disabled sloop Greyhound. (839), circa 1903-1907
- Parade reception for Governor Hoggatt, July 1906
- Reception to Captain Roald Amundsen and Lieutenant Hansen at the Golden Gate Hotel in Nome, Alaska, September 1, 1906
- Seward Peninsula Excursion Train at Dorothy Creek with people standing on flatbed cars (816), circa 1903-1907
- Men working near a mining sluice. (894), circa 1903-1907
- Men working near a mining sluice. (879), circa 1903-1907
- Two men standing at the Sumit Bench at the head of Dexter Creek, circa 1903-1907
- Hydraulic Mining at Daniels Creek by Top Kok Ditch Co., circa 1903-1907
- Completed portion of ditch on Nome River, Alaska by Seward Ditch Company. (337), circa 1903-1907
- Little Creek viewed from Portland Bench. (798), circa 1903-1907
- Two men looking into a creek. (435), circa 1903-1907
- Three men standing on the Berger & Sullivan Drill. The first drill operated at Bluff, Alaska., circa 1903-1907
- Four plates of gold. (789), circa 1903-1907
- Man putting gold assay buttons in furnace at the Miners and Merchants Bank in Nome, Alaska., circa 1903-1907
- View from above a snow-covered town. (534), circa 1903-1907
- Looking down from No 6 Above Cleary Creek, Alaska. (532), circa 1903-1907
- Lelands Camp near Pilgrim River and Salmon Lake, circa 1903-1907
- Birds-eye view of Cleary Creek, Alaska (520), circa 1903-1907
- Blocks, buckets and bags of gold (794), June 10, 1906
- Three Friends Mining Company dredge on Solomon river, Alaska., circa 1903-1907
- Field of Alaska cotton. (185), circa 1903-1907
- Pressed northwestern and Alaskan wild flowers, circa 1903-1907
- Alaska Native graves at St. Michael, Alaska. (654), circa 1903-1907
- Interior of a Greek Church in Unalaska. (141), circa 1903-1907
- Wreck of the ship Sadie at Cape York, Alaska (809), circa 1903-1907
- Russian Fort St. Michael in Alaska, established 1849 (637), circa 1903-1907
- Street in Teller, Alaska. (819), circa 1903-1907
- Iñupiat village at Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska (798), between 1903 and 1907
- Diomede Islands viewed from the water, circa 1903-1907
- Ice floes in the arctic viewed from the deck of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Thetis, August 1906
- Alaska Native Village on Little Diomede Island viewed from the water, circa 1906
- Alaska Native on board the U.S. Revenue Cutter Thetis at Point Barrow, Alaska, circa 1906
- U.S. Revenue Cutter Thetis fastened to an ice flow off the Seahorse Islands, August 1906
- Furling the sails on board the U.S. Revenue Cutter Thetis, circa 1906
- Three rows of stuffed Ptarmigan of north-western Alaska. (156), circa 1903-1907
- View of the Bering Sea near Nome, Alaska after a storm. (836), circa 1903-1907
- Names and Subjects
Overview of the Collection
- Photographer
- Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)
- Title
- Beverly B. Dobbs Alaska photograph album
- Dates
- approximately 1903-1907 (inclusive)19031907
- Quantity
- 1 box (82 photographs in 1 album) ; 11" x 15"
- Collection Number
- PH0788
- Summary
- Photographs of Alaska Natives, mining operations in Alaska, and other Alaska subjects
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
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Seattle, WA
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Telephone: 2065431929
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- Languages
- English
Biographical Note
The son of a farmer, Beverly Bennett Dobbs was born in 1868 near Marshall, Missouri. At age 8, he moved with his parents to Lincoln, Neb., where he learned photography. In 1888, Dobbs moved to Bellingham, Wash., and operated a photography studio for 12 years, including a partnership in 1890-1891 with F.F. Fleming under the name Dobbs & Fleming. He married Dorothy Sturgeon of Bellingham in 1896, then moved to Nome, Alaska, in search of gold in 1900. Dobbs continued to earn his living as a photographer, and by 1903, he had formed a partnership with the photographer A.B. Kinne from San Francisco. The Dobbs & Kinne studio in Nome offered photography services and photo supplies. Dobbs photographed scenes in Nome and the Seward Peninsula and made portraits of Eskimo people (Eskimos). He was awarded a gold medal at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World’s Fair) in 1904 for his Eskimo photographs.
By about 1909, Dobbs had started Dobbs Alaska Moving Picture Co., making him one of the first to use motion picture film north of the Arctic Circle. He made a name for himself as a filmmaker with Atop of the World in Motion (also called Top of the World in Motion ), a collection of his motion picture travelogues detailing the Alaska gold rush. By 1911, it is probable that Dobbs was focusing only on his moving picture business; he no longer had his photography supply store, and had sold his photography negatives to the Lomen Brothers, who later issued some of his work under their name. By 1914, Dobbs had returned to Seattle and was managing the Dobbs Totem Film Company. He is listed as the cinematographer for A Romance of Seattle , a film shot in and around Seattle in 1919. In his later years he specialized in developing motion picture films in his studio at his home. During the 1930s, Dobbs photographed the fish processing operations at Pacific American Fisheries (PAF) in the Fairhaven area of Bellingham. He died at age 69 in 1937.
Content Description
The collection consists of one photograph album with red leather cover containing photographs taken in Alaska by B.B. Dobbs. The album includes images of Alaska Natives, both studio portraits and images of Iñupiat people in their daily lives, showing men fishing, with dog and reindeer sleds, and with reindeer carcasses; images of mining, showing mining operations at various locations, mining camps and landscapes, and gold bars in a bank; and views of Nome and other Alaska locations.
Use of the Collection
Alternative Forms Available
View the digital version of the collection
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Source: Old Butte Antiques, 2006.
Processing Note
Processed by Jody Hendrickson and Marion Brown, 2008.
Title of some images revised to align with harmful language guidelines. Revison completed by G. Mandarino, June 2023
Related Materials
See also B. B. Dobbs Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition photographs (coll. PH0755) and Beverly B. Dobbs photographs (coll. PH0323) .
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Dates: 1903Container: Item 1
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Description: Wegaruk and her child. (346)Dates: 1905Container: Item 2
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Description: Iñupiat woman Nowadluk Nora Ootenna dressed in fur parka, Alaska
Nowadluk Nora Ootenna (1883/85-1918) [Norwadluk; Nowadlook; Nawadlook; Nawadluk; Noadkuk; Noadoadlok; Newarluk] was born in Kingegan about 1883-1885 to Eungnuk (1841-1918) (Eungknook, Enuquenuh) and Weakaseuk (1834-1918) (Weokrseok). Her known siblings were Ongualuk (Stella Adlooat Kaingnizinia) (1888-1941) and James Keok (1879/1880-1918). Nowadluk “Nora” and her cousin Nowadluk “Alice” attended school and worked for the educators Ellen and W. T. Lopp. Ellen Lopp gave the cousins the names Nora and Alice, because they shared the same Inupiaq name. In August 1900, in a double wedding with her cousin, Nowadluk married George Ootenna (1878-1971) a successful reindeer herder. They did not have children, however, sometime after 1910 they adopted a daughter Isabel. Nowadluk was an active member of the church, taught Sunday school, and was the subject of several Christian missionary articles about her exemplary home. Nowadluk was also a popular subject of the Nome commercial photographers, marketing her as an “Eskimo Belle” wearing her atigi (fancy fur parka). Nowadluk died in the 1918 pandemic in Kingegan, along with her parents, her brother James Keok, four of his children, her brother-in-law Adlooat and his baby. References: Smith, Kathleen Lopp and Smith, Verbeck, Ice Window, Letters from a Bering Strait Village: 1892-1902, Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001.; The American Missionary, vol. 68, 1914, An Arctic Journey to Dedicate Thornton Memorial Church, by Rev. Philip E. Bauer, of Nome, Alaska, p. 477.; Nagozruk's Report of Deaths and Living, U.S. Public School, Wales, Alaska, November 1918, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1908-1934, Record Group 75, M2150, pages 1220-1229, National Archives, Identifier number 231817243. Submitted by Deborah Tear Haynes, 3/2022.
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Description: Young Iñupiat woman wearing cloth kuspuk, AlaskaDates: 1903Container: Item 4
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Dates: 1903Container: Item 5
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Description: Iñupiat woman Martha Anguluk with chin tattoo wearing fur parka and mitten
Martha Anguluk (1874/82-1946) married John Anguluk (1879-1930/39). They had one daughter Veronica Anguluk Van Loock (1901/1903-1960). Reference: Ancestry.com U.S. Census records and family trees. Submitted by Deborah Tear Haynes, 3/2022.
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Description: Taluk and her babyDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 7
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 8
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Description: Four young Iñupiat women including Nowadluk Nora Ootenna wearing fur parkas, Nome, Alaska
Nowadluk Nora Ootenna second from left, possibly her cousin Nowadluk Alice Stanley third from left.
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Dates: 1903Container: Item 10
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Description: Iñupiat boy Kituk with his parents Nopunkoak and Kitnk, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska
Kituk (1899-1918) (Ki-tuk, Charles Kutook) was born in Kingegan in 1899 to Nopunkoak (1863-unknown) and Kitu/nk (1870-unknown). His known siblings were a brother Ulosangrauk (born 1889) and a sister Tamaknena (born 1894). As a young boy Kituk was photographed dancing by Suzanne Rignon Bernardi, B. B. Dobbs and Frank H. Nowell. The photographs of Kituk are titled "Eskimo Boy Dancer," "Kituk, Eskimo Dancing Boy, with Father and Mother, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska," and "Arctic Dancing Boy, Cape Prince of Wales." Charles Kituk was a teacher in Nome from 1915-1918. Charles Kutook (Kituk) wrote "Some Reasons for Sending Children to School" in the Bureau of Education"™s magazine The Eskimo, Vol. 1, No. 9, May 1917. The missionary Dr. Albert Warren Newhall recorded the dramatic loss of life in the Alaskan villages during the 1918 pandemic. One story describes how Kituk (Ki-tuk) died on his way to Kingegan on an infected mail sled. References: 1910 U.S. Census, Cape Prince of Wales; Alaska Bureau of Education Reports, 1915-1918; Account of the influenza epidemic in Unalaska, 1919. Albert W. Newhall letters, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska, Anchorage, HMC-0188. http://sites.rootsweb.com/~coleen/seward_alaska.html Submitted by Deborah Tear Haynes, 3/2022.
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Description: Alaska Native woman (184)Dates: 1903Container: Item 12
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Description: Iñupiat child wearing fur parka, AlaskaDates: between 1898 and 1908Container: Item 13
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Description: Large group of Iñupiat people outside a building in Nome, Alaska during reception to Governor HoggattDates: July 28, 1906Container: Item 14
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Description: Iñupiat man with tonsured hair, woman and child seated inside shelter and working with toolsDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 15
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Description: Tents, canoes and logs on a beach. (806)Dates: 1906Container: Item 16
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Dates: between 1903 and 1907Container: Item 17
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Description: Alaska Native woman ice fishing, Alaska (648)Dates: 1906Container: Item 18
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 19
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 20
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Description: Clothes hanging from an upturned umiakDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 21
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 22
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 23
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Description: Two Iñupiat men with a racks of reindeer killed for the Nome market near Cape Prince of Wales, AlaskaDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 24
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Description: Reindeer herd near Cape Prince of Wales, AlaskaDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 25
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Dates: between 1901 and 1911Container: Item 26
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 27
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Description: Man in ice field at the edge of townDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 28
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Dates: January 1907Container: Item 29
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 30
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 31
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Description: View down a street in Nome, AlaskaDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 32
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Description: Nome, Alaska viewed from the ice-covered Bering SeaDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 33
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Description: Sloop Greyhound smashed by the ice packDates: January 1907Container: Item 34
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Dates: January 1907Container: Item 35
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Description: Nome, Alaska viewed from the ice-covered Bering SeaDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 36
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Description: Group of men, women and dogs around an ice hummock on the Bering Sea, one mile in front of Nome, Alaska. (708)Dates: February 25, 1906Container: Item 37
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Dates: 1907Container: Item 38
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Description: Bob Griffis, U.S. Mail Carrier, and his dog sled team one mile in front of Nome, Alaska on the Bering Sea (627)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 39
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Description: Rack of drying Tom Cod near Nome, Alaska. (453)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 40
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Description: Two men and a dog sled team in snowDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 41
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Description: People looking out over the side of a shipDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 42
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Description: Large ship in an icy sea. (153)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 43
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 44
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Dates: June 9, 1906Container: Item 45
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 46
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Description: Parade reception for Governor HoggattDates: July 1906Container: Item 47
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Description: Reception to Captain Roald Amundsen and Lieutenant Hansen at the Golden Gate Hotel in Nome, AlaskaDates: September 1, 1906Container: Item 48
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Description: Seward Peninsula Excursion Train at Dorothy Creek with people standing on flatbed cars (816)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 49
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 50
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 51
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 52
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 53
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Description: Completed portion of ditch on Nome River, Alaska by Seward Ditch Company. (337)
"C.L. Morris, Contractor"
Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 54 -
Description: Little Creek viewed from Portland Bench. (798)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 55
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 56
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Description: Three men standing on the Berger & Sullivan Drill. The first drill operated at Bluff, Alaska.Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 57
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 58
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Description: Man putting gold assay buttons in furnace at the Miners and Merchants Bank in Nome, Alaska.Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 59
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Description: View from above a snow-covered town. (534)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 60
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 61
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Description: Lelands Camp near Pilgrim River and Salmon LakeDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 62
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Description: Birds-eye view of Cleary Creek, Alaska (520)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 63
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Description: Blocks, buckets and bags of gold (794)
"$1,250,00 Gold Buillion at the Miners and Merchant's Bank in Nome, Alaska"
Dates: June 10, 1906Container: Item 64 -
Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 65
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Description: Field of Alaska cotton. (185)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 66
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Description: Pressed northwestern and Alaskan wild flowersDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 67
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Description: Alaska Native graves at St. Michael, Alaska. (654)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 68
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Description: Interior of a Greek Church in Unalaska. (141)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 69
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Description: Wreck of the ship Sadie at Cape York, Alaska (809)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 70
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 71
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Description: Street in Teller, Alaska. (819)Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 72
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Dates: between 1903 and 1907Container: Item 73
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Description: Diomede Islands viewed from the waterDates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 74a
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Dates: August 1906Container: Item 74b
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Dates: circa 1906Container: Item 75a
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Dates: circa 1906Container: Item 75b
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Dates: August 1906Container: Item 76a
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Dates: circa 1906Container: Item 76b
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 77
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Dates: circa 1903-1907Container: Item 78
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Eskimo children--Alaska--Photographs
- Eskimo women--Alaska--Photographs
- Eskimos--Alaska--Photographs
- Fishing--Alaska--Photographs
- Gold mines and mining--Alaska--Photographs
- Sled dogs--Alaska--Photographs
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
