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Title
Traveling medicine peddler
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Peddlers and peddling

Subject
Carriages and carts

Subject
Medicine shows

Item Number
AF01a020

Relation
Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Description
Photograph of William Wickman, a medicine peddler who traveled from house to house in rural Dickinson County.

Traveling medicine peddler

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