Leonhard Seppala in Dawson City, circa 1940s

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.

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