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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: | 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | A mailman in a horse-drawn vehicle delivers mail to the mailbox of a rural boarding house. |
| 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: | 02 03 1978 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with mail carrier in car putting mail in a mailbox. "Ralph Koll, Rural Mail Carrier. Somewhere in this monstrous snow drift is Helen Moldenha... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Bonduel, Wisconsin, with a man driving a U.S. R.F.D. mail wagon along a road by a fenced yard, a barn, and a mailbox. Pr... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | View across road of the Mount Ida post office and general store. A man is sitting on the porch. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View from road of the general store, a two-story wood frame building in a rural area. A man and a child are standing near the door. Another child is sittin... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Four black and white images of a man using a Scout II to deliver mail to a mailbox. Note that steering wheel is on the right side. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Joseph Langenbach sitting in a horse-drawn cutter (sleigh) at the end of the snowy driveway. In the background is a fence and a U.S. Mail... |
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| Description: | View towards a man sorting mail in a truck with a sign on the side that reads: "U.S. Mail R.F.D." There are four mailboxes on wooden posts on the left, and... |
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