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| Date: | 02 23 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the University League address and seal the Easter Seal Drive envelopes. Some of the children of the members sort the envelopes by postal zone. T... |
| Date: | 09 02 1952 |
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| Description: | Tommy Torbleau of 425 Memphis Avenue has Perthes disease and has spent the summer in bed. His plea for letters appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal |
| Date: | 02 03 1978 |
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| Description: | "Postmaster Paul 'Skip' Trauba. Skip has been a postal employee since 1950 and served as postmaster since 1966. The Third Class office presently has 220 lo... |
| Date: | 02 03 1978 |
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| Description: | "U.S. Post Office. Rural mail carrier, Ralph Koll, sorts the mail prior to beginning his route." |
| Date: | 08 30 1956 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Danny Liarakos and Rev. Constantine Mager, priest of the new Greek Orthodox congregation, sitting at a table while reading letters. Four children are liste... |
| Date: | 10 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Methodist Hospital student nurse Sandra Sheller writes a letter home for patient Ray Zimmerman from Murphysboro, Illinois. She is taking part in the state-... |
| Date: | 11 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Joseph R. (Roundy) Coughlin posing with members of the Madison West High School girls' club who stuffed envelopes for "Roundy's F... |
| Date: | 01 03 1958 |
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| Description: | Plans are being completed for the organization of a Women's Auxiliary to the Dane County Bar Association. Wives of the lawyers will make up the membership.... |
| Date: | 11 10 1958 |
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| Description: | For their annual project, the West High School Girls' Club, a service club, stuffs the general "Roundy's Fun Fund" letters. |
| 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Rosina Victoria Junghans seated at a desk with cards and letters to and from servicemen and women serving in World War II. She holds r... |
| Date: | 02 09 1961 |
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| Description: | Barbara Bruemmer (left) writing a letter for Mrs. Floyd L. Dudley, who is a patient of the Visiting Nurse Service. Barbara is a volunteer "friendly visitor... |
| Date: | 04 05 1945 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 06 29 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 14 1920 |
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| Description: | Letter from Phil A. Grau, Business Manager for the Milwaukee Association of Commerce, to the Secretary of State for Illinois (Louis L. Emmerson), endorsing... |
| 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 worker, Del Winters, working at a pouch rack, where mail is sorted prior to going out of the city. He is in the back of the United States Post Offic... |
| 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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