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Start of Fox Ramsay's Siberian husky dog team entry, eventual second-place winners, at the 3rd All Alaska Sweepstakes, Nome, April 1910
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| Title | Start of Fox Ramsay's Siberian husky dog team entry, eventual second-place winners, at the 3rd All Alaska Sweepstakes, Nome, April 1910 |
| Photographer | Lomen Bros. |
| Date | 1910 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Start Fox Ramsay Entry, 3rd All Alaska Sweepstakes.
Postmark on verso of image reads: Nome Alaska OCT 20 10 AM 1910
Filed in Alaska--Transportation--Dog Team |
| Contextual Notes | On the strength of their [Siberian huskies] showing of speed and, particularly, endurance under the most trying conditions, Fox Maule Ramsay, a young Scotsman then in Nome and a competitor himself in the 1909 [All Alaska Sweepstakes] race, went to Siberia in the summer of 1909. Travelling up the Anadyr River to the trading settlement of Markovo, Ramsay procured around 60 of the best specimens of the breed he could find. He entered three teams of Siberians in the 1910 All Alaska Sweepstakes race, one for each of his uncles and one he drove himself. The team entered in the name of Col. Charles Ramsay and driven by John "Iron Man" Johnson, a Swedish Finn, came in first with an elapsed time of 74 hours, 14 minutes, 37 seconds, the best ever time for the 408 mile race held annually through 1917. Fox Ramsay came in second. The third Siberian team, entered for Col. Stuart and driven by Charles Johnson, placed 4th. (The 75th anniversary All Alaska Sweepstakes race was held in 1983, following the same trail and rules as the original race. The winner was 5 time Iditarod champion Rick Swenson. His time was over 10 hours slower than Iron Man Johnson's 1910 winning time.) [Source: http://www.shca.org/shcahp2d.htm ] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Dog teams--Alaska--Nome |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Sled dogs--Alaska--Nome |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Nome |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC1459
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| Negative Number | UW15331 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Postcard Collection |
| Object Type | Postcard |
| Physical Description | 3.5 x 5.5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from an original photographic postcard using a Microtek ArtixScan 1800f at 110 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2005. |
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