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Mystics on WIBA Radio

Date: 12 09 1930
Description: WIBA "Mystic Myrah and Lorenz," seers, reading mail from listeners in the Fern room. Patrick Shannon from WIBA, observing.
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Beautiful Madison, Inc.

Date: 08 30 1956
Description: Three members of Beautiful Madison, Inc. give a letter to Mayor Ivan Nestingen (seated at desk) requesting a city ordinance against littering in Madison st...
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Laughing Marine

Date: 04 05 1945
Description: Soldier L. Heims, seated outdoors on the back of a loaded vehicle, smiling broadly while reading a letter. Other smiling soldiers are in the background.
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Mexican Girl Scouts

Date: 06 29 1965
Description: Two girl scouts from Mexico (Alejandra Christlieb and Maria Grobet) present Madison mayor Otto Feske with a letter from the regional director of the United...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
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...
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Wounded Soldiers Writing Letters Home

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin. Soldier in left foreground has to write with his left hand since his right hand was wounded.
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Turkish Reservist Writing a Letter Home

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Description: Turkish Landsturmann (reservist), holding a note in his hands, writing a letter home.
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Scribes in Damascus

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Description: Scribes in the streets of Damascus writing letters to the parents.
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Mailing Letters from a Car

Date: 01 20 1959
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...
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Fan Mail

Date: 1965
Description: Caption reads: "Fan Mail. Writes widow in rest home: 'I think WVLR has put new pep into everybody.'"
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Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin Sending Letter to Santa

Date: 1952
Description: A man stands on an airplane stair cart, holding a child in a snowsuit up to a man in the cockpit of an airplane. The child is holding a large envelope. Cap...
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Marshall Thompson in Death Valley Days

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Description: Two still photographs of actor Marshall Thompson from an episode of the TV show Death Valley Days. The photograph on the left shows Thompson nailin...

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