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Title
Homestead of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Johnson, located near Foster City
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Dwellings

Subject
Carriages and carts

Subject
Automobiles

Item Number
AF01a183

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 old and new modes of transportation in front of the homestead of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Johnson. Jake Johnson is seated in the automobile and his wife is standing next to it. Their son Emil is seated in the buggy and Olaf, another son, holds the bridle of the unhitched horse.

Homestead of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Johnson, located near Foster City

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