Puppies and parkas, circa 1940 @alaskafilmarchives
Puppies and parkas, circa 1940  @alaskafilmarchives
Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Spectators wearing a variety of parkas and cold weather gear enjoy the Winter Carnival and sled dog races along the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks, Alaska, circa 1940 (Color/Silent/16mm film).

This is a clip 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.

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Puppies and parkas, circa 1940

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