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AK - Anvil Creek,Nome County - 1906 - Anvil Pioneer Mining Company Photograph Set - Mueller Collecti

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Photographic Images Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD
AK - Anvil Creek,Nome County - 1906 - Anvil Pioneer Mining Company Photograph Set - Mueller Collecti
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Set of 6 matted photographs by photographer Beverly Dobbs, showing various operations of the Pioneer Mining Company during the Alaska gold rush. Anvil Creek is near the city of Nome. 1) No. 1 Above Anvil Pioneer Mining Co., shows about a dozen men building a sluice. 2) No. 3 Anvil. Shows about a half dozen men working on a sluice with a couple of tents at far right and stacks of supply boxes. 3) Looking Down Anvil From No. 7 Above D. This photo shows Anvil Creek, with miners’ tents and buildings on the hillside in the background. 4) No. 9 Anvil White Star Mining Co. This photo shows several mining structures at left center and in the foreground a deep ditch with men at the bottom of it working on a sluice. 5) Hydraulic Mining on Dexter, Pioneer Mining Co. A man with a hydraulic hose is shooting water off a mound, which is running into the sluice. Another, inoperative sluice is seen to the left, and the terrain is quite torn up with diggings, boxes, and equipment lying about. 6) Looking at $20,000 in Boxes. Ready For Clean Up. Hot Air Mine. About 18 people—women in coats and hats and men in suits—are kneeling beside a sluice and looking inside, while other men stand on the top of the ravine behind them—one with a dog. All photos are 7 ½ x 9 ½” on gray matting. “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” [content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4].