Walrus hunters with guns posing on an iceberg, Alaska, between 1901 and 1911

• Main Author: Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1906
• Subjects: Rifels; Firearms; Icebergs; Group portraits; Walrus hunting > Alaska; Hunters > Alaska; inuit; Nome; Seward Peninsula; Alaska; walrus*
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/2467

Caption in album: Walrus hunters from S.S. Nome City. PH Coll 323.43b 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. Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2008.