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1966.3948.128
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Charles "Slim" Williams, John Logan, and dog "Blizzard," December 9, 1939
Order an ImageThis photo depicts Slim Williams (left) and John Logan with their dog "Blizzard" after their arrival in Seattle by motorcycle in December 1939.
Clyde C. "Slim" Williams was a promoter of the Alaska Highway in the 1930s. Williams first rode the proposed route in 1933, by dogsled and in a Model T pulled by sled dogs, from Copper Center, Alaska to Chicago and Washington D.C. to dramatize the necessity of uniting Alaska with the United States by an automobile highway. Williams made a second trip to promote the highway, this time by motorcycle with John Logan and the dog "Blizzard" in 1939. Logan documented the trip on film.
Handwritten on photo: Chas. "Slim" Williams, left, and John Logan and dog "Blizzard" left Fairbanks May 14 - [19]39 by motorcycle over International Hiway arrived Seattle Dec 2 - 1939
Clyde C. "Slim" Williams was a promoter of the Alaska Highway in the 1930s. Williams first rode the proposed route in 1933, by dogsled and in a Model T pulled by sled dogs, from Copper Center, Alaska to Chicago and Washington D.C. to dramatize the necessity of uniting Alaska with the United States by an automobile highway. Williams made a second trip to promote the highway, this time by motorcycle with John Logan and the dog "Blizzard" in 1939. Logan documented the trip on film.
Handwritten on photo: Chas. "Slim" Williams, left, and John Logan and dog "Blizzard" left Fairbanks May 14 - [19]39 by motorcycle over International Hiway arrived Seattle Dec 2 - 1939
ID Number: 1966.3948.128
Date: 1939
Creator(s):
Grady, Photographer
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Additional Information: View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv06869
Credit: MOHAI, Yukon Order of Pioneers, Seattle Lodge Photograph Album, 1966.3948.128
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
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