Mining dumps in the snow, Cleary Creek, Alaska, circa 1907

• Main Author: Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Tailings embankments > Alaska; Mining camps > Alaska; Spoil banks > Alaska > Cleary Creek (Fairbanks North Star Borough); Cleary Creek (Fairbanks North Star Borough; Alaska); Cleary; Fairbanks; North Star; inuit; Nome; Seward Peninsula; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/2407

Caption on image: Looking down from No. 6 Above. Cleary Creek Alaska. Dobbs. 532. PH Coll 788.61 Beverly Bennett Dobbs was born in 1868 near Marshall, Missouri. In 1888 Dobbs moved to Bellingham, Washington and operated a photography studio there for 12 years. In 1900 Dobbs moved to Nome, Alaska and continued to work as a photographer capturing images of Nome, the Seward Peninsula, and Inuit people. In 1909, Dobbs started the Dobbs Alaska Moving Picture Co. and began making films about the Gold Rush. By 1914, Dobbs had moved back to Seattle and was creating more films through the Dobbs Totem Film Company which he ran until his death in 1937.