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Interurban Bus loaned items

Object/Artifact
Interurban collage, rate card and toy bus on loan from Phyllis Yff of the Interurban Transit Authority (Bus) Three items: 1. matchbox-style blue bus toy, 2. 16x22" collage of newspaper stories and Polaroid photos of Interurban opening day 3. blue interurban rate card Conditions of Loan: Return to Interurban office when exhibit is over or if not needed for exhibit. Ms. Yff also brought a bag of branded stress balls, post-it note pads and slap bracelets that are a gift and do not need to be returned.
Phyllis Yff of the Interurban Transit Authority holding the three loaned items
unframed montage of ribbon cutting at system inauguration; 16 Montage detail right Polaroid 1 Polaroid 2 Polaroid 3 left newspaper clipping; Holland Sentinel, marked May 8, 1980, with a photo of Cora Bliss Taylor about to snip the red ribbon Original rate card cover Original rate card back Original rate card inside Toy bus used for ditch award, Toy bus Toy bus Toy bus Toy bus

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Documents the success of artist Cora Bliss Taylors letter-writing campaign to establish public transportation in the township. Commercial Record newspaper clipping includes photos of Cora Bliss Taylor, Interurban dispatcher Art Colby, driver Gordon Durham, driver Mala Boyce, coordinator Cherie Giller, dispatcher Bobbi McCray, driver Hilton Brown and driver Linda Sobol (not shown drivers Don Davis and Odessa Hurd) and Rob Krause with his winning logo design. The first dispatch office was in the Saugatuck Village Hall.

Winthers, Sally

HerStory Exhibit July 2023-2024

Interurban Transit Authority (Bus)Yff, PhyllisTaylor, Cora Bliss 1889-1986Quade, PhillipDurham, Gordon William 1919-1997McCray, BobbiBrown, Darius Hilton "Hilt" 1917-2007Krause, Robert "Bob" Sr.

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04/06/2023

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11/18/2023