Front:
First International
Dog Team mail
ALDEN W. PULSIFER
DRIVER
Lewislon-montreal
1998-1929
GEORGE PULSIFER
RELIEF DRIVER
Back:
PLACE
Post Card
POSTAGE
STAMP
HERE
These famous dogs are the only team of genuine black
head Eskimo dogs in the world
that carried the mail from Minot, Me., to Albany, N. Y.,
driven by Alden Pulsifer, carrying letters from the Gover-
nor of Maine to the Governors of Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, and New York, in 1927
of a single family. Noochusik, the lead dog, is the mother,
and Ipar, nearest the sled, is the father. They were
brought out of Baffinland, in the Arctic regions, by
MacMillan expedition.
Ipunga, Chippalla, and Ipar
They are now carrying the first international dog team
mail from Lewiston, Me., to Montreal and return, as the
special messengers of the American Snowshoe Union, with
letters from Governor
Mayor Wiseman of Lewiston, Mayor Walton of Auburn,
and officials of civic and fraternal organizations, under
authorization from the United States Post Office Depart-
ment in a special ruling by Second Assistant Postmaster
General W. Irving Glover.
It is the famous team
This team is composed
Their names are Noochusik, Oblik,
Brewster, Governor-elect Gardiner,
