Two Inuit men sitting beneath a umiak turned on its side, next to a beached kayak, Alaska, circa 1906

• Main Author: Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Kayaks; Eskimos > Boats > Alaska; Alaska Natives > Boats; Umiaks > Alaska; Kayak; eskimo*; inuit; Nome; Seward Peninsula; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/2426

Caption in album: Oomiak. PH Coll 323.4 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.