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| Date: | 12 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal Editor Roy L. Matson buys stamps from Charles Smythe, wholesale stamp clerk, while Postmaster John F. Whitmore waits his turn. They... |
| Date: | 12 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Postal workers deal with a shipment of Christmas mail that was "arriving by the roomful and the ton." Workers are, left to right: William Borjinkhof, John... |
| Date: | 12 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Esther Haack (seated left) sells a page of Christmas seals to Leone Wagner at the post office. The Madison Tuberculosis Association sells about $150 worth ... |
| Date: | 08 27 1959 |
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| Description: | A new 4-cent postage stamp honors the American soil conservation effort by showing various phases of soil conservation. Shown (L-R) are: Russell Silverwood... |
| Date: | 12 04 1959 |
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| Description: | Acting Postmaster for Madison, John F. Whitmore (right), receives a certificate of appointment from Adolph Knudson (left), postal department field services... |
| Date: | 02 28 1960 |
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| Description: | Key participants in the Wisconsin Postmaster's Management Conference are shown, left to right: Harold Van Buren (Hartland postmaster and secretary-treasure... |
| Date: | 03 13 1960 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire stands at a podium to address an overflow crowd of about 600 federal employees in the second congressional district at the wage in... |
| Date: | 01 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Cecelia and Ken Miller and Dorothy and John Switzky share a moment of laughter. |
| Date: | 01 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Local 241 president Al Schmook and Dorothy Schmook and Mrs. and Mr. James McDaniel waiting for other guests to arrive. |
| Date: | 01 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Betty and Nate Hillmer and Joseph and Rosemary Haas stop for the camera. About 85 Post office workers and their wives attended the Christmas party. |
| Date: | 04 28 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison postal officials looking over mail ready for processing through the new East Side postal station. Left to right: John F. Whitmore, postmaster; Arv... |
| Date: | 07 18 1961 |
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| Description: | Dell Winters (left) presents gifts from fellow Post Office Department employees to three who are retiring. Retirees include, left to right: John McCullough... |
| Date: | 02 01 1964 |
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| Description: | Postmaster John Whitmore, left, chatting with Monona residents in the village's new post office in a remodeled building across from Monona Grove high schoo... |
| Date: | 07 29 1965 |
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| Description: | John L. Smith standing on a Madison sidewalk with letters in his hand and his mail cart beside him. He is featured in a newspaper article about his busy li... |
| Date: | 12 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Two postal workers arranging mail carts full of "yule mail" inside of a large canvas tent. The men working are George DeVoe, left, a superintendent enginee... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | People waiting in line to mail their letters, packages and parcels in the lobby of the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. A woman is standing at t... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal employee, Harry Bunbury, receiving bundles of Christmas cards from inside the letter window at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. Bundl... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal workers (left to right): Robert Clark, Fred Boyd, and Donald O'Leary, are loading outgoing parcels and packages at the United States Post Office on ... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal workers, John Hoyt (left) clerk in charge, and Sidney Schoyes, station examiner, are handling stamp requisitions for branch offices and drugstores a... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Monitoring the outgoing mail are (left to right): William C. Davis, assistant superintendent, George Gauke, superintendent, and William Vaeble. They are in... |
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