Leonhard and Constance Seppala with puppies
This clip features famed Alaska dog musher Leonhard Seppala and his wife Constance Seppala sitting on the porch in front of a house and playing with a litter of puppies. This was possibly filmed in Chatanika, Alaska. Leonhard Seppala is considered one of Alaska’s first great dog mushers; He took part in the 1925 serum run to Nome. (Color/Silent/16mm film). This film sequence is an excerpt of AAF-2240 from the Seppala-Hanks collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
