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| Date: | 01 20 1959 |
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| Description: | A driver mailing letters into a roadside mailbox from a car at the corner of Monona Avenue and Doty Street. The photograph was taken with a long-lens camer... |
| Date: | 01 20 1959 |
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| Description: | A driver mails a letter in a roadside mailbox from a car on the corner of Monona Avenue and Doty Street. The photograph was taken with a long-lens camera. |
| Date: | 01 20 1959 |
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| Description: | A man using two hands to deposit letters in a roadside mailbox from a truck on the corner of Monona Avenue and Doty Street. The photograph was taken with a... |
| Date: | 12 31 1958 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Snell who has been the post office telephone operator for almost 19 years. She answers complaints, refers calls, and gives information for hundre... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men ---- one in a mailman's uniform ----- standing on either side of an oversized special pass to a screening of the film "The Life of Emile Zola" star... |
| Date: | 05 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Looking south at rear of the building nearly complete, with barrels and lamppost. |
| Date: | 10 01 1928 |
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| Description: | View looking north from rear parking lot and loading dock showing King Street Arcade, Cantwell Building, 121 South Pinckney Street, Riley Bremer Riley Olds... |
| Date: | 04 23 1927 |
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| Description: | Reinforcing steel in main wall footing, East Doty Street side, looking toward corner of Monona Avenue. |
| Date: | 01 02 1928 |
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| Description: | Stone walls are going up on the second floor. The view is looking west at the back of the building, with a wheelbarrow and scaffolding in the lot. In the b... |
| Date: | 01 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of rear of finished Post Office and Courthouse, with snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 12 03 1928 |
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| Description: | Interior view of empty Post Office work room looking toward Wilson Street. |
| Date: | 08 01 1928 |
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| Description: | View looking north from corner of Monona Avenue and Wilson Street of front and side of the building, with workmen finishing the basement level. Automobiles... |
| Date: | 03 31 1928 |
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| Description: | U.S. Post Office, with a close-up view of stone carving on a column capitol with a rosette over it, at 215 Monona Avenue. (Martin L. King Jr. Boulevard.) |
| Date: | 08 01 1927 |
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| Description: | View of foundation for lower loading dock, looking northwest. The Beavers Insurance Building, at 119 Monona Avenue, is in the background. |
| Date: | 04 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Ground being prepared for the construction of the U.S. Post Office, 215 Monona Avenue, showing Beaver Building (National Mutual Benefit Insurance), 119 Mon... |
| Date: | 09 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Post Office employees John T. McCullough, left, (4607 Tonyawatha Trail) and Robert Kurth (334 Glenway Street), look over unstamped, misaddressed, o... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | Poster of Art Nesson, a well-known figure on State Street. Art made his living as a window washer, dishwasher and manual laborer. He is leaning on a mailbo... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Harriet Irwin, a high school graduating senior, opening her invitation to the tea sponsored by the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | A new red, white and blue mail truck is displayed at the Madison Post Office garage. A poster on the side of the truck reads: "Don't be a Hurry Bug — Slow ... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal worker, Ray Kindschi, is pushing a load of packages on a cart at the Williamson Street warehouse for the United States Post Office. He is usually a ... |
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