Yawn...

Yawn... if you have seen one spotted pig, take it from me, you have seen them all.

1928 - Movies & More on Alaskan Pupmobiles!

Look what I bumped into!  

This is the same team of dogs I posted earlier when they were riding on the car. They have so much personality!  

I loved the first photo but it didn't occur to me to research it...until I bumped into this second photo in the Library of Congress archives.  While there isn't a lot out there on the pupmobile, what the University of Alaska has is great stuff.  The team below isn't as interesting, but how could I not add another pupmobile photo?

And they have movies at the University of Alaska Archive.

Pupmobile on the Seward Peninsula, 1928-1932

On YouTube another one of these movies is here.  It is misfiled in the archive and you just get the above film again when you download.
The University of Alaska has a big collection of movies with many of dog teams doing normal snow work.

Alaska, July 1912 - Proud Working Dogs

A dog that knows it does its job well is a very happy dog indeed!

Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress)

Photo shows Walter W. Johnson, a mining engineer and designer of gold and tin dredges, who traveled around the Seward Peninsula on the family "pupmobile" and on horseback. Johnson wrote on the back of his copy of the photo, "When it was time to coast, the dogs would jump aboard without command." (Source: Granddaughter Lynn Johnson, 2013)