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Monument to a dog. A monument was unveiled in Central Park, New York, to Balto
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Monument to a dog. A monument was unveiled in Central Park, New York, to Balto
Monument to a dog.
A monument was unveiled in Central Park, New York, to Balto, the famous dog, who driven by Gunnar Ksen, reached Nome, Aslaska, with diptheria antitoxin to relieve the epidemic there. Gunnar Ksen (1882 - November 27, 1960) was a Norwegian-born musher who delivered a cylinder containing 300, 000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska in 1925 as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the U.S. city from an epidemic.
Gunnar Ksen his dog Balto, and the statue are seen in the picture.
28 December 1925
Media ID 11024975
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