Dog Team Postcards

The header on the original article in Alaskan History Magazine.

This famous 1908 photograph of Milton Weil’s ‘Malamute Chorus’ became a popular postcard.

Postcard from a photograph by Ed Nowell, Nome, 1908. Compare with the postcard below.

With the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle seal in the corner, this postcard is the unedited version of the postcard above. Text on the back: “This Alaska Dog Team carried a party of polar bear hunters from Nime (sp.) to the Far North. The distance travelled on this trip was 1,000 miles.”

“The Fast Mail, Alaska.” No date or photographer identification.

Dogteams ferry freight and passengers from ships as much as two miles offshore due to Bering Sea ice.

“A crack dog team, Alaska.” No date or photographer identified.

Dogteam hauling wood in the Fairbank Mining District, circa 1910.