Alaska-Yukon Pioneers Committee presenting a key to the city to sled dog Balto at Pier 52, Seattle, March 22, 1925

• Format: Still Image
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• Subjects: Alaska-Yukon Pioneers (Seattle; Wash.) Sled dogs—Washington (State)—Seattle Twins—Washington (State)—Seattle Piers—Washington (State) > Seattle; Balto (Dog) Blix; Ringwald; 1872-1948; Adolph; Ferguson; Gunnar; Yukon; Nome; Alaska
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Balto was the lead sled dog on Gunnar Kaasen’s 1925 Serum Run team, delivering diphtheria antitoxin serum to doctors at Nome, Alaska on the last leg of the relay. Balto and Kaasen arrived in Seattle on the Alaska Steamship Company’s steamship Alameda, and they were honored at a ceremony on Pier 2 in...