Beverly Bennett Dobbs (1868–1937)[1] was a photographer and filmmaker in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.[2] The University of Washington has his work in their collection.[3] He was born near Marshall, Missouri. He moved with his family to Lincoln, Nebraska when he was eight.[4] In 1888, Dobbs moved to Bellingham, Washington, and partnered with F. F. Fleming[5] at Dobbs & Fleming between 1890 and 1891. Dobbs had a photography studio in Bellingham for 12 years until 1900 when he moved to Nome, Alaska. He took a small schooner from Seattle to try and film the emergence of islands in the 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]
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Achievements
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In 1909, he established the Dobbs Alaska Moving Picture Co. and made films about the Gold Rush including travelogues.[7] He also photographed the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition taking place in Seattle that year. By 1911, he shifted his focus to filmmaking, selling off his negatives to Lomen Brothers.[4] He moved back to Seattle by 1914. He ran the Dobbs Totem Film Company until his death in 1937. His work includes photographs of fish processing operations at Pacific American Fisheries (PAF) in 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]
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Personal life
editIn 1896 Dobbs married Dorothy Sturgeon in Bellingham.[4]
Filmography
editReferences
edit- ^ "Nome's High Society". www.clarkart.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ^ "Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett) - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ^ "Nowadlook, an Inuit women, dressed in fur parka, Alaska, 1907". digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu.
- ^ a b c d e "Archives West: Beverly B. Dobbs photographs, circa 1900-1912". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
- ^ "Archives West: Beverly B. Dobbs photographs, circa 1900-1912". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ^ "Illustrated World ..." American School of Correspondence at Armour Institute of Technology. 30 December 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d "Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett) @ SNAC". Snaccooperative.org.
- ^ The Moving Picture World. Chalmers Publishing Company. 1914. p. 795 – via Internet Archive.