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Balto was dedicated to the sled dog that led several dogsled teams through a snow-storm in the winter of 1925 in order to deliver medicine that would stop a diphtheria epidemic occurring in Nome, Alaska. The sculpture is slightly larger than the real-life dog, and is placed on a rock outcropping on the main path leading North from the Tisch Children's Zoo. The sculpture was created by Frederick George Richard Roth, who among this statue has others scattered around Central Park, the Balto sculpture was put on display in the park on December 15,1925; with the star of the statue; Balto himself present. Like so many other monuments in the park, it's made of bronze, and it was donated to the park by the Balto Monument Committee to the City of New York. Under the sculpture, a small plaque can be found, containing the following inscription: Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed antitoxins six hundred miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the Winter of 1925. ENDURANCE • FIDELITY • INTELLIGENCE