Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Famed Alaska dog musher Leonhard Seppala visits Dawson City, Yukon Territory, likely during the 1940s. He poses with a prehistoric mastodon or mammoth bone. Also pictured are the Y.O.O.P (Yukon Order of Pioneers) Pioneer Hall, the Alexandra Hotel, a landscape feature known as Moosehide Slide (Ëdhä dädhëchą), and the Yukon River (Color/Silent/16mm film).
This clip is from AAF-2240 of the Seppala-Hanks collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
Famed Alaska dog musher Leonhard Seppala visits Dawson City, Yukon Territory, likely during the 1940s. He poses with a prehistoric mastodon or mammoth bone. Also pictured are the Y.O.O.P (Yukon Order of Pioneers) Pioneer Hall, the Alexandra Hotel, a landscape feature known as Moosehide Slide (Ëdhä dädhëchą), and the Yukon River (Color/Silent/16mm film).
This clip is from AAF-2240 of the Seppala-Hanks collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
