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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: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Men in wagons posed in front of a rural post office. They brandish guns, whiskey bottles and possibly a harmonica with humorous intent. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Men with guns and dogs and wagons in front of a rural post office. Some men have assumed exaggerated poses, probably for humorous effect. |
| 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: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Three rural mail carriers pose with their horses and buggies in front of the Montello Post Office. Postmaster (Dr.) Edward A. Bass stands in the backgroun... |
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| Description: | A group of men, women and children await their mail at the local post office. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Man in the driver's seat of an International model M truck parked along a sidewalk outside a post office. Loaded on the truck are sacks and wire fencing. A... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Men with a stagecoach in front of the Wells Fargo Mail and Express Company. In 1858, Wells Fargo helped start the Overland Mail Company, also known as the ... |
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| Description: | View of two large oxen pulling a wagon stopped in front of a post office. On the steps in front of the building two men stand looking towards the street. ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A man stands in the back of a horse-drawn Weber wagon to deliver mail to rural resident, possibly a farmer, standing by mailbox. |
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| Description: | A woman waiting by her mailbox receives a Sears Roebuck catalog delivered by her mail carrier who drives a horse-drawn wagon. The farmhouse and barn are vi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a post office with a horse-drawn carriage parked to the left. Caption reads: "Post Office, So. Casco, Maine." |
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| Description: | A mailman in a horse-drawn vehicle delivers mail to the mailbox of a rural boarding house. |
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| Description: | View down an unpaved road with shops on either side. A horse and carriage is coming down the street, and another horse and carriage is parked in front of a... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down dirt street. Two women and three children pose at the intersection. Farther down the street is a post office. There is a bridge at the end of the... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The exterior of the post office and hotel. A group of boys and men pose at the front of the post office. Another man leans on the side of a wagon. A young ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from road of the exterior of the Lee and Company General Store/post office. A young man stands on the porch; two girls walk on the sidewalk, and a man... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View of a car driving down Ellis Avenue. Neighborhood homes line the street behind the car. The post office tower is in the background. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Woman standing outside of the two-story Post Office building in Manitowish. There is a road, fence and pine trees in the foreground. |
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