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| Date: | 03 28 1929 |
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| Description: | Men working in the U.S. Post Office sorting room, 215 Monona Avenue. |
| Date: | 02 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Seated at the speakers table at the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers' meeting (left to right), are: Earl Bagley, Cambridge, treasurer; R.C. Salisbury, Mad... |
| Date: | 02 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Grace Haugen, DeForest (left), retiring president of the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers' Association Auxiliary, talking with the new president, Mrs... |
| Date: | 02 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Vice-president Leslie Larson, McFarland, (left) and president Wilbur Johnson, Lake Mills, who were re-elected to head the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers... |
| Date: | 09 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Nels Anderson of 524 East Washington Avenue tells why he endorses the "fair share" plan of the United Givers Campaign. |
| Date: | 12 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Esther Haack (seated left) sells a page of Christmas seals to Leone Wagner at the post office. The Madison Tuberculosis Association sells about $150 worth ... |
| Date: | 12 04 1959 |
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| Description: | Acting Postmaster for Madison, John F. Whitmore (right), receives a certificate of appointment from Adolph Knudson (left), postal department field services... |
| Date: | 01 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Cecelia and Ken Miller and Dorothy and John Switzky share a moment of laughter. |
| Date: | 01 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Local 241 president Al Schmook and Dorothy Schmook and Mrs. and Mr. James McDaniel waiting for other guests to arrive. |
| Date: | 01 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Betty and Nate Hillmer and Joseph and Rosemary Haas stop for the camera. About 85 Post office workers and their wives attended the Christmas party. |
| Date: | 04 28 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison postal officials looking over mail ready for processing through the new East Side postal station. Left to right: John F. Whitmore, postmaster; Arv... |
| Date: | 07 18 1961 |
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| Description: | Dell Winters (left) presents gifts from fellow Post Office Department employees to three who are retiring. Retirees include, left to right: John McCullough... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the postal carrier Carl Wagner on the porch of Sid's house, displaying a Life magazine in his arms, and holding a stack of mail. |
| 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 workers, John Hoyt (left) clerk in charge, and Sidney Schoyes, station examiner, are handling stamp requisitions for branch offices and drugstores a... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal worker, Paul McConnell, loading packages onto his mail truck for delivery. He is handling different sized boxes stacked on the lowered gate of his o... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Harriet Irwin, a high school graduating senior, opening her invitation to the tea sponsored by the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council. |
| Date: | 12 31 1958 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Snell who has been the post office telephone operator for almost 19 years. She answers complaints, refers calls, and gives information for hundre... |
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