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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several men, some of whom may be railroad workers, posing in front of a Minnesota and St. Paul wood-burning engine at a train crossing. Th... |
| Date: | 08 15 1937 |
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| Description: | Employees of Don's Delivery Service, Inc. near the main Post Office, with Harley Davidson motorcycles and a closed panel truck. They are parked across the ... |
| Date: | 11 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Souvenir envelope mailed by John A. Lester on the flight that inaugurated air mail service between Madison and Minneapolis in 1927. Madison's first incomin... |
| Date: | 07 01 1933 |
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| Description: | A Northwest Airways crew delivers a bag of airmail to Madison postmaster W.A. Devine. With him, posed in front of the Ford TriMotor, are pilots Elmer Wahl ... |
| Date: | 11 11 1944 |
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| Description: | The window of Rennebohm's Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, displaying Santa Claus and an array of stuffed animal toys, mainly Teddy bears. A sign on the dis... |
| Date: | 11 30 1944 |
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| Description: | Display window at Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 204 State Street, showing "His Gifts" and "Her Gifts" for Christmas. The sign painted on the window on the left ... |
| Date: | 01 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Display of personal care products in the window of Rennebohm Drug Store #10, 676 State Street. Here the promotion to buy large size items seen in other Ren... |
| Date: | 08 28 1937 |
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| Description: | Wadhams Oil Company float in the Elks Parade, with a child "driving" a Mobile Oil Flying Red Horse symbol. The float is on E. Doty Street with the Post Off... |
| Date: | 03 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Panoramic elevated view of the east side of Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,) showing Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. road construction e... |
| 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: | 08 01 1928 |
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| Description: | View looking east from Doty Street at the front and side, with automobiles and construction shacks and a sign that reads: "United States Post Office & Cour... |
| Date: | 05 09 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from Park Hotel Roof of the remodeling of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street. Other West Main Street businesses visible are Madison Bank... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | The 100th Anniversary of Wisconsin Statehood envelope on the first day it was issued on May 29, 1948. It is addressed to Governor Oscar Rennebohm, State of... |
| Date: | 08 22 1971 |
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| Description: | A mailbox, painted with likenesses of animals, insects, and plants, at the Duckwitz residence at 5040 Lake Mendota Drive. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Mazomanie Post Office and the State Bank on the corner of Broadhead and Hudson. On the left a young girl stands in the dirt road. Further down the block a ... |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| Description: | People with packages lined up at the customer service windows of the Madison post office, 215 Monona Avenue, at Christmas. |
| Date: | 12 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Mailman delivering Christmas letters and packages to a man at NBC - WIBA radio station. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Illinois Central Railroad station, 603 West Washington Avenue. The passenger depot is in the foreground, and the freight depot is across West Washington Av... |
| Date: | 11 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Men and women in line at the Madison Central Post Office, 215 Monona Avenue. |
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