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Horse-drawn bus : Iron Mountain's early public transportation

Dickinson County Library

Horse-drawn omnibuses

Transportation

Shoemakers

AF01a083

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

Photograph of a horse-drawn bus with bench seats on each side and roll-down canvas curtains to keep out the rain. All of the women pictured were teachers who were transported to and from the Chapin and Farragut schools at the Chapin Location. The shoemaker's shop operated by Frank Perino can be seen in the background and was located at 515-1/2 Vulcan Street.