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Post Office

Date: 01 13 1968
Description: Post Office workers in mail room.
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Postal Employees Demand Higher Wages

Date: 08 1919
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.
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Postmen

Date: 1880
Description: Group portrait of postmen from the Milwaukee Area.
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Francis Shirbroun Delivers Mail in Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1941
Description: Francis Shirbroun delivers mail to a mailbox in a Farmall A tractor that has been fitted with a homemade cab for delivering mail. The cab has a "FARMALL" d...
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Mail Early for Christmas

Date: 12 04 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal Editor Roy L. Matson buys stamps from Charles Smythe, wholesale stamp clerk, while Postmaster John F. Whitmore waits his turn. They...
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Group of Men in Bus

Date: 1912
Description: Three-quarter view from front of a group of men sitting in an Internatioal bus which is parked at the curb near what appears to be an International Harvest...
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Postmaster and Family

Date: 1910
Description: A book in his hands, Postmaster Ed King sits in his wallpapered living room, staring past his wife to the window. Edna, his daughter, is seated at the pian...
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Horse and Cutter

Date: 1901
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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M-800 Metro Post Office Vehicle

Date: 02 06 1967
Description: Elevated view of an International M-800 Metro. Six men surround the vehicle that is parked inside a covered alcove. Cars are seen parked in the background....
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal workers, John Hoyt (left) clerk in charge, and Sidney Schoyes, station examiner, are handling stamp requisitions for branch offices and drugstores a...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
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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Interior of Hardware Store and Post Office

Date: 1911
Description: Two men posing in the interior of the Franklin Hardware Company and Eland Post Office. Jerome Francis Franklin Jr. is on the left, Jerome Francis Franklin ...
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Interior of Hardware Store and Post Office

Date: 1911
Description: An unknown man and Jerome Francis Franklin, Sr. (right) pose in the back room office of the Franklin Hardware Company and Eland Post Office. On the left ar...
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Undeliverable Post Cards

Date: 09 16 1957
Description: Madison Post Office employees John T. McCullough, left, (4607 Tonyawatha Trail) and Robert Kurth (334 Glenway Street), look over unstamped, misaddressed, o...

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