Nome, Alaska
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Nome is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the US state of Alaska. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on the Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. It had a
Steadman Street in Nome, looking north from King Place, in May 2002
Gold Pan, Anvil City Square
An aerial view of Nome, Alaska, July 2006
Inuit music and dance near Nome, 1900
Balto
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Balto was a Siberian Husky and sled dog belonging to musher and breeder Leonhard Seppala. He achieved fame when he was part of a team of sled dogs driven by Gunnar Kaasen on the final leg of the 1925
Nome, Alaska
…diphtheria antitoxin serum by airplane from Anchorage. A relay of dog sled teams was organized to deliver the serum, which was successfully led by Balto and Togo. Today, the Iditarod Dog Sled Race follows the same route they took, and ends in Nome. In the 21st century, Nome's economy remains based around…
Balto, c. 1925.
Gunnar Kaasen with Balto, c. February 1925
The Merrill Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, showing the American documentary film Balto's Race to Nome (1925)
Statue of Balto in Central Park, New York City