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Title
Andrew Bjorkman's jitney bus
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Buses

Subject
Portraits

Item Number
AF01a175

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 Andrew Bjorkman's jitney bus that traveled to and from Grand Blvd. via River & Carpenter avenue. The man standing at the bus door is unidentified, but the man with the crutch was Peter ""Peggy"" Merzlac. The ride cost five cents, payable when entering the vehicle.

Andrew Bjorkman

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