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10 July 2011 Balto, Dec. 1925.
Balto at the unveiling of his statue. I almost wish I hadn’t looked for this, his life after this point was very sad and cruel.
Tags: dogs, history, New York City
9 July 2011 Resident dogs of Central Park.
Balto by Frederick George Richard Roth. Unveiled December 1925, with Balto himself there to see it. The lighter brown on his back is from so many people climbing on him.
John Quincy Adams Ward’s Indian Hunter, unveiled in 1869 after appearing at the Paris Universal Exposition in 1867.
Sir Walter Scott & his faithful hound by Sir John Steell, unveiled in 1872.
Tags: dogs, history, New York City, travel
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