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1933, Slim Williams international trail blazer, Copper Centre, Alaska to Chicago by dog team Smithers, B.C.
- Date Range
- 1933
- Collection
- BVM visual record collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
Clyde "Slim" Williams and John Logan in Smithers, B.C.
- Date Range
- 1939
- Collection
- BVM visual record collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Collection
- BVM visual record collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Creator
- Acme Newspictures Inc., San Francisco
- Fonds No.
- C2
- Item No.
- P5546
- Accession No.
- 2017.79
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: b&w; 22.5 x 18 cm
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Date Range
- 1939
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Notes
- On back of photograph is typed:
"Motorcyclists chart new proposed Alaska Highway
Smithers, British Columbia. Clyde C. "Slim" Williams, left of Adventures Club, Chicago, Ill., and John [L?] Logan, right, of Pittsburgh, PA, 1410 miles of almost unbroken wilderness behind them, leave here for Vancouver, B.C., on the next to the last lap of their cycling back through Alaska. The two men left Fairbanks, Alaska, in their motorbikes on May 14. Nearly six months was needed to traverse the 1410 miles, during most of which they broke trail. From Vancouver the adventurers will head for Washington to give a report on conditions of the proposed route for the Aslaskan Highway. (BU) 11-22-39"
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Less detail
"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
- Creator
- A.L. Evitt
- Item No.
- P5107
- Accession No.
- 2009.11.14
- Physical Description
- 1 sepia postcard; 14 x 8.7 cm
- Date Range
- 1933
- Notes
- Written on back: "Slim Williams, Copper Center Alaska, Salvation Jim Trail '98, Dawson Y.T by R.W. service, A.D. Woole"
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Less detail
