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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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Lathrop, Post Mistress, stands with a dog and other people in front of the Post Office. There is a shoreline on the left. |
| 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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy, with proprietor, assistant, customer and mailman standing among numerous retail displays and a McCormick-Deering "four in lin... |
| Date: | 07 05 1933 |
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| Description: | Two workmen use a McCormick-Deering I-12 industrial tractor to a pull Boeing U.S. mail and express airplane from a Municipal Airport hangar during the Amer... |
| Date: | 06 27 1912 |
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| Description: | Suffragist Mrs. Katherine McCullough speaking to a gathering in front of the store and post office run by Mrs. W. Bunda in Sister Bay. |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | View down long line of workers from the United States Postal Service demonstrating for an increase in salary to meet war-time cost of living increases. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The completed Lawson L-4, the second and larger airplane designed and built by Alfred Lawson in Milwaukee in 1920. Not only was Lawson's airliner intended ... |
| 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | A group of men near the Koss railroad depot, the majority of whom are seated on the ground. One of the men is sitting on a piano stool. To the right of the... |
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| Description: | A stallion with long curly mane, owned by Jack Allison. Allison, a horse dealer from Taylor County, and the horse stand in front of the Post Office on Main... |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern picking up the mail at the roadside mailbox. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Two children are exiting an International R-183 School Bus. The children are greeted by a woman, possibly their mother. A man, possibly the father of the c... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | International Auto Wagon parked in front of a horse outside a post office. The truck is loaded with sacks, possibly filled with mail. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Post office with man and dog. This was the Louisville Post Office, west of Downsville in the town of Dunn. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Post office, with seven men and a boy standing in front. Corliss is now called Sturtevant. |
| Date: | 12 22 1972 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire walked thousands of miles in Wisconsin to meet constituents. Here he is, in a snowmobile suit, shaking hands with a woman outside ... |
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