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"Slim Williams international trail blazer"
- Date Range
- 1933
- Collection
- BVM visual record collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Collection
- BVM visual record collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Other Title Info
- Title based on caption written on photograph.
- Fonds No.
- C2
- Item No.
- P2695
- Accession No.
- 1981.36.52
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: sepia; 13.8 x 8.8 cm
- Scan Resolution
- 96 dpi
- Date Range
- 1933
- History / Biographical
- Clyde C. "Slim" Williams traveled from Alaska to Chicago by dog sled in 1933 to prove the viability of the Alaska Highway.
Came from a black photo album. Inside the first page was P2644 and this note "To: Joan Muriel and Allan McGill. With Best Wishes. From the United Church Sunday School. Smithers, B.C. June 30th 1935."
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Related Material
- Same postcard as P4292 and P5107 but with different writing on back.
- Notes
- Caption reads "Copper Centre, Alaska to Chicago by Dog Team." Writing on the back reads: "Kept dogs at [Diel Mones?]"
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Less detail